Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Recent submissions
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The Airborne Cloud–Aerosol Transport System: Overview and Description of the Instrument and Retrieval Algorithms
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he Airborne Cloud?Aerosol Transport System (ACATS) is a Doppler wind lidar system that has recently been developed for atmospheric science capabilities at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). ACATS is also a ... -
Correction of ADCP Compass Errors Resulting from Iron in the Instrument’s Vicinity
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)ron in the vicinity of compasses results in compass deviations. ADCPs mounted on steel buoyancy devices and deployed on seven moorings on the East Greenland outer shelf and upper slope from 2007 to 2008 suffered from severe ... -
A Horizon-Tracking Method for Shipboard Video Stabilization and Rectification
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)n algorithm is presented for the stabilization and rectification of digital video from floating platforms. The method relies on a horizon-tracking technique that was tested under a variety of lighting and sea-state conditions ... -
Dissipation Rate Estimates from Microstructure and Finescale Internal Wave Observations along the A25 Greenland–Portugal OVIDE Line
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)total of 96 finestructure and 30 microstructure full-depth vertical profiles were collected along the A25 Greenland?Portugal Observatoire de la Variabilité Interannuelle et Décennale en Atlantique Nord (OVIDE) hydrographic ... -
A General Numerical Method for Analyzing the Linear Stability of Stratified Parallel Shear Flows
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he stability analysis of stratified parallel shear flows is fundamental to investigations of the onset of turbulence in atmospheric and oceanic datasets. The stability analysis is performed by considering the behavior of ... -
Meteor Trail Echo Rejection in Atmospheric Phased Array Radars Using Adaptive Sidelobe Cancellation
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)trong meteor trail echoes are interferences in the wind velocity estimates made from mesosphere radar observations. Contaminated spectra are detected by their discontinuity and are removed at the risk of greater fluctuations ... -
Evaluating Radial Current Measurement of Multifrequency HF Radar with Multidepth ADCP Data during a Small Storm
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)multifrequency high-frequency (MHF) radar system was designed and developed by Wuhan University in 2007. This system can simultaneously operate at four frequencies mainly in the 7.5?25-MHz band. This paper focuses on ... -
Intercomparison of Independent Calibration Techniques Applied to the Visible Channel of the ISCCP B1 Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) B1 data, which were recently rescued at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration?s National Climatic Data Center (NOAA/NCDC), are a resource for the ... -
Predicting Tidal Heights for New Locations Using 25 h of in situ Sea Level Observations plus Reference Site Records: A Complete Tidal Species Modulation with Tidal Constant Corrections
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)hybrid technique for predicting tides for new locations, based on as little as 25 h of concurrent temporary and reference site sea level observations, plus up to a year of reference records, is evaluated using 2-yr South ... -
Improved Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer Tropical Cyclone Surface Winds in Heavy Precipitation
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)urface wind speeds retrieved from airborne stepped frequency microwave radiometer (SFMR) brightness temperature measurements are important for estimating hurricane intensity. The SFMR performance is highly reliable at ... -
High-Water Alerts from Coinciding High Astronomical Tide and High Mean Sea Level Anomaly in the Pacific Islands Region
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)technique to produce high-water alerts from coinciding high astronomical tide and high mean sea level anomaly is demonstrated for the Pacific Islands region. Low-lying coastal margins are vulnerable to episodic inundation ... -
Impact of Data Assimilation on ECCO2 Equatorial Undercurrent and North Equatorial Countercurrent in the Pacific Ocean
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he impact of data assimilation on the transports of eastward-flowing Equatorial Undercurrent (EUC) and North Equatorial Countercurrent (NECC) in the Pacific Ocean from 145°E to 95°W during 2004?05 and 2009?11 was assessed. ... -
DCC Radiometric Sensitivity to Spatial Resolution, Cluster Size, and LWIR Calibration Bias Based on VIIRS Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he Visible and Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on board the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership satellite brings new opportunities for improving scientists? understanding of deep convective cloud (DCC) ... -
Technique for Reducing the Effects of Nonlinear Terms on Electric Field Measurements of Electric Field Sensor Arrays on Aircraft Platforms
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)generalized technique has been developed that reduces the contributions of nonlinear effects that occur during measurements of natural electric fields around thunderstorms by an array of field mills on an aircraft. The ... -
An Immersed Boundary Geometric Preprocessor for Arbitrarily Complex Terrain and Geometry
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)here is a growing interest to apply the immersed boundary method to compute wind fields over arbitrarily complex terrain. The computer implementation of an immersed boundary module into an existing flow solver can be ... -
An Assessment of the Impact of Antishattering Tips and Artifact Removal Techniques on Bulk Cloud Ice Microphysical and Optical Properties Measured by the 2D Cloud Probe
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)recent study showed that the ratio of the number of distribution functions derived from 2D cloud probes (2DCs) with standard tips to those with antishatter tips used during the 2008 Indirect and Semidirect Aerosol Campaign ... -
Water Level and Wave Height Estimates at NOAA Tide Stations from Acoustic and Microwave Sensors
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is transitioning the primary water level sensor at the majority of tide stations in the National Water Level Observation Network (NWLON) from an acoustic ranging ... -
A New Sea Surface Height–Based Code for Oceanic Mesoscale Eddy Tracking
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)his paper presents a software tool that enables the identification and automated tracking of oceanic eddies observed with satellite altimetry in user-specified regions throughout the global ocean. As input, the code requires ... -
Why Scanning Instruments Are a Necessity for Constraining Temperature and Humidity Fields in the Lower Atmosphere
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he ability of different ground-based measurement strategies for constraining thermodynamic variables in the troposphere, particularly at the mesoscale, is investigated. First, a preliminary assessment of the capability of ... -
Aircraft-Based Aerosol Sampling in Clouds: Performance Characterization of Flow-Restriction Aerosol Inlets
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)nteraction of liquid cloud droplets and ice particles with aircraft aerosol inlets can result in the generation of a large number of secondary particles and contaminate aerosol measurements. Recent studies have shown that ...