Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Recent submissions
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Shore-Based Video Observations of Nonlinear Internal Waves across the Inner Shelf
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)hore-based video remote sensing is used to observe and continually monitor nonlinear internal waves propagating across the inner shelf. Month-long measurements of velocity from bottom-mounted acoustic Doppler current ... -
Decomposition of Residual Circulation in Estuaries
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he residual currents in estuaries are produced by a variety of physical mechanisms. To understand the contribution of each individual mechanism to the creation of residual circulation, it is necessary to separate the effect ... -
Development and Validation of an Operational Search and Rescue Modeling System for the Yellow Sea and the East and South China Seas
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)n operational search and rescue (SAR) modeling system was developed to forecast the tracks of victims or debris from marine accidents in the marginal seas of the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The system is directly linked ... -
Cloud Detection of MODIS Multispectral Images
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)ethods coming from statistics and pattern recognition to estimate the cloud mask from radiance measured by visible and infrared sensors on board satellites are gaining greater consideration for their ability to properly ... -
Mixing State of Submicrometer Sea Spray Particles Enriched by Insoluble Species in Bubble-Bursting Experiments
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)easurements of size distribution, hygroscopicity, and volatility of submicrometer sea spray particles produced by the bubble busting of artificial and natural seawater were conducted to determine their mixing state and ... -
Autonomous Ocean Turbulence Measurements Using Shear Probes on a Moored Instrument
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)n internally recording, autonomous instrument has been tested for measurements of ocean turbulence from a mooring line. Measurements were made at a single level in the water column, but for an extended period of time, at ... -
Laboratory Measurements of Coarse Sediment Bedload Transport Velocity Using a Prototype Wideband Coherent Doppler Profiler (MFDop)
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)prototype wideband coherent Doppler profiler (MFDop) was tested for measuring bedload velocity of different gravel and coarse-sand-sized fractions (d = 1?32 mm) in the laboratory. The sediment was spread out on a smooth-surface ... -
Real-Time Measurement of the Range Correlation for Range Oversampling Processing
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)s range-oversampling processing has become more practical for weather radars, implementation issues have become important to ensure the best possible performance. For example, all of the linear transformations that have ... -
Polarization Diversity for Millimeter Spaceborne Doppler Radars: An Answer for Observing Deep Convection?
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)paceborne Doppler radars have the potential to provide key missing observations of convective vertical air motions especially over the tropical oceans. Such measurements can improve understanding of the role of tropical ... -
Implementation of a Gabor Transform Data Quality-Control Algorithm for UHF Wind Profiling Radars
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)n this paper a Gabor transform?based algorithm is applied to identify and eliminate intermittent signal contamination in UHF wind profiling radars, such as that produced by migrating birds. The algorithm is applied in the ... -
A New Method for Tracking Meddies by Satellite Altimetry
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)ubsurface coherent vortices in the North Atlantic, whose saline water originates from the Mediterranean Sea and which are known as Mediterranean eddies (meddies), have been of particular interest to physical oceanographers ... -
Investigating Short-Wavelength Correlated Errors on Low-Resolution Mode Altimetry
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he observation of ocean scales smaller than 100 km with low-resolution mode (LRM) altimetry products is degraded by the existence of a ?hump artifact? visible on sea surface height (SSH) spectra.Through an analysis of ... -
In situ Quality Assessment of a Novel Underwater pCO2 Sensor Based on Membrane Equilibration and NDIR Spectrometry
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)his paper presents a detailed quality assessment of a novel underwater sensor for the measurement of CO2 partial pressure (pCO2) based on surface water field deployments carried out between 2008 and 2011. The commercially ... -
Difficulties in Early Ice Detection with the Small Ice Detector-2 HIAPER (SID-2H) in Maritime Cumuli
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he Small Ice Detector, version 2 (SID-2), High-performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research (HIAPER; SID-2H) was used to detect small ice particles in the early stages of ice formation in the high ... -
Model of the Correlation between Lidar Systems and Wind Turbines for Lidar-Assisted Control
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)nvestigations of lidar-assisted control to optimize the energy yield and to reduce loads of wind turbines have increased significantly in recent years. For this kind of control, it is crucial to know the correlation between ... -
New Soil Property Database Improves Oklahoma Mesonet Soil Moisture Estimates
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)oil moisture data from the Oklahoma Mesonet are widely used in research efforts spanning many disciplines within Earth sciences. These soil moisture estimates are derived by translating measurements of matric potential ... -
Assessment of Censoring Using Coherency-Based Detectors on Dual-Polarized Weather Radar
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)n Doppler weather radars, signals may exhibit coherency in sample time, whereas noise does not. Additionally, in dual-polarized radars, samples of precipitation echo obtained in the two orthogonally polarized channels are ... -
Development of an Efficient Regional Four-Dimensional Variational Data Assimilation System for WRF
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)his paper presents the development of a single executable four-dimensional variational data assimilation (4D-Var) system based on the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model through coupling the variational data ... -
Unfiltering Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) Scanner Radiances Using the CERES Algorithm and Its Evaluation with Nonscanner Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he NOAA-9 Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) scanner measured broadband shortwave, longwave, and total radiances from February 1985 through January 1987. These scanner radiances are reprocessed using the more recent ... -
Aircraft Evaluation of Ground-Based Raman Lidar Water Vapor Turbulence Profiles in Convective Mixed Layers
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)igh temporal and vertical resolution water vapor measurements by Raman and differential absorption lidar systems have been used to characterize the turbulent fluctuations in the water vapor mixing ratio field in convective ...