Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Recent submissions
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KuROS: A New Airborne Ku-Band Doppler Radar for Observation of Surfaces
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)his study presents the new airborne Doppler radar Ku-Band Radar for Observation of Surfaces (KuROS), which provides measurements of the normalized radar cross section σ° and of the Doppler velocity over the sea. The system ... -
Autonomous Surface Vehicle Measurements of the Ocean’s Response to Tropical Cyclone Freda
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)n 31 December 2012, an instrumented autonomous surface vehicle (ASV; Wave Glider) transiting across the Pacific from Hawaii to Australia as part of the Pacific Crossing (PacX) project came very close (46 km) to the center ... -
The Air–Sea Interaction Profiler (ASIP): An Autonomous Upwardly Rising Profiler for Microstructure Measurements in the Upper Ocean
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he upper few meters of the ocean form a critical layer for air?sea interaction, but because of observational challenges this region is undersampled. However, the physical processes controlling momentum transfer, gas exchange, ... -
Using Microwave Backhaul Links to Optimize the Performance of Algorithms for Rainfall Estimation and Attenuation Correction
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he variability in raindrop size distributions and attenuation effects are the two major sources of uncertainty in radar-based quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) even when dual-polarization radars are used. New ... -
Ocean Data Impacts in Global HYCOM
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he impact of the assimilation of ocean observations on reducing global Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM) 48-h forecast errors is presented. The assessment uses an adjoint-based data impact procedure that characterizes ... -
Error Analysis of a Conceptual Cloud Doppler Stereoradar with Polarization Diversity for Better Understanding Space Applications
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)n error budget analysis is performed for retrieval of along-track winds based on the design of a spaceborne Doppler radar using polarization diversity. The analysis is conducted within the framework of a case study of an ... -
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The Equatorial Undercurrent and TAO Sampling Bias from a Decade at SEA
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he NOAA Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) moored array has, for three decades, been a valuable resource for monitoring and forecasting El Niño?Southern Oscillation and understanding physical oceanographic as well as coupled ... -
Estimating Sensible and Latent Heat Fluxes Using the Integral Method from in situ Aircraft Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)n September 2009, several Aerosonde unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were flown from McMurdo Station to Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica, with the purpose of collecting three-dimensional measurements of the atmospheric boundary ... -
On the Recovery of 3D Spatial Statistics of Particles from 1D Measurements: Implications for Airborne Instruments
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he spatial positions of individual aerosol particles, cloud droplets, or raindrops can be modeled as a point processes in three dimensions. Characterization of three-dimensional point processes often involves the calculation ... -
Terrain-Induced Turbulence Intensity during Tropical Cyclone Passage as Determined from Airborne, Ground-Based, and Remote Sensing Sources
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)ow-level turbulence [rapid headwind fluctuations below 1600 ft (500 m)] poses potential safety hazards to landing/departing aircraft and is capable of disrupting air traffic. Timely, accurate alerts of low-level turbulence ... -
Retrieval Models of Water Vapor and Wet Tropospheric Path Delay for the HY-2A Calibration Microwave Radiometer
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)his paper focuses on the development and validation of retrieval models of water vapor (WV) and wet tropospheric path delay (PD) for the calibration microwave radiometer (CMR) on board the first ocean dynamic environment ... -
Monitoring Greek Seas Using Passive Underwater Acoustics
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he Hellenic Center for Marine Research POSEIDON ocean monitoring and forecasting system has included passive underwater acoustic measurements as part of its real-time operations. Specifically, low-duty-cycle long-term ... -
Real-Time Radar Reflectivity Calibration from Differential Phase Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)n algorithm based on the self-consistency between the horizontal reflectivity ZH and the specific differential phase KDP has been devised for the calibration of the reflectivity measurements of the McGill S-band dual-polarization ... -
Volumetric Lidar Scanning of Wind Turbine Wakes under Convective and Neutral Atmospheric Stability Regimes
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)ptimization of a wind farm?s layout is a strategic task to reduce wake effects on downstream turbines, thus maximizing wind power harvesting. However, downstream evolution and recovery of each wind turbine wake are strongly ... -
Land Contamination Correction for Passive Microwave Radiometer Data: Demonstration of Wind Retrieval in the Great Lakes Using SSM/I
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)assive microwave radiometer data over the ocean have been widely used, but data near coastlines or over lakes often cannot be used because of the large footprint with mixed signals from both land and water. For example, ... -
Effects of Tunable Data Compression on Geophysical Products Retrieved from Surface Radar Observations with Applications to Spaceborne Meteorological Radars
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)his paper presents results and analyses of applying an international space data compression standard to weather radar measurements that can easily span eight orders of magnitude and typically require a large storage capacity ... -
Scale Model Evaluation and Optimization of Sodar Acoustic Baffles
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)21:1 scaled sodar, operating at 40 kHz, has been built and tested in the laboratory. Sodars, which use sound scattered by turbulence to profile the lowest few hundred meters of the atmosphere, need good acoustic shielding ... -
Global Lightning Parameterization from CMIP5 Climate Model Output
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)ightning is best known as a component of severe weather, but diverse communities of researchers, such as those in atmospheric chemistry and global fire modeling, have long recognized that lightning plays a significant role ... -
Comparison of Global and Seasonal Characteristics of Cloud Phase and Horizontal Ice Plates Derived from CALIPSO with MODIS and ECMWF
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)his study analyzed the global and seasonal characteristics of cloud phase and ice crystal orientation (CTYPE-lidar) by using the Cloud?Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) on board the Cloud?Aerosol Lidar ...