Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Recent submissions

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    • Quality Control of Weather Radar Data Using Polarimetric Variables 

      Lakshmanan, Valliappa; Karstens, Christopher; Krause, John; Tang, Lin (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      ecause weather radar data are commonly employed in automated weather applications, it is necessary to censor nonmeteorological contaminants, such as bioscatter, instrument artifacts, and ground clutter, from the data. With ...

    • Improvements in LICOM2. Part I: Vertical Mixing 

      Huang, Wen-Yu; Wang, Bin; Yu, Yong-Qiang; Li, Li-Juan (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      etter computational stability is achieved in an improved version of the National Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG)/Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) ...

    • Improving Parallel Performance of a Finite-Difference AGCM on Modern High-Performance Computers 

      Liu, Li; Li, Ruizhe; Yang, Guangwen; Wang, Bin; Li, Lijuan; Pu, Ye (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      he rapid development of science and technology has enabled finer and finer resolutions in atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs). Parallelization becomes progressively more critical as the resolution of AGCMs ...

    • Improvements in LICOM2. Part II: Arctic Circulation 

      Huang, Wen-Yu; Wang, Bin; Li, Li-Juan; Yu, Yong-Qiang (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      known issue of the National Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics/Institute of Atmospheric Physics Climate Ocean Model, version 2 (LICOM2, the standard version) is the ...

    • Impact of the Aqua MODIS Band 6 Restoration on Cloud/Snow Discrimination 

      Gladkova, Irina; Shahriar, Fazlul; Grossberg, Michael; Frey, Richard A.; Menzel, W. Paul (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      istinguishing between clouds and snow is an intrinsically challenging problem because both have similar high albedo across many bands. The 1.6-?m channel (band 6) on the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) ...

    • A Time-Series Method to Identify and Correct Range Sidelobes in Meteorological Radar Data 

      Westbrook, C. D.; Nicol, J. C. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      he use of pulse compression techniques to improve the sensitivity of meteorological radars has become increasingly common in recent years. An unavoidable side effect of such techniques is the formation of ?range sidelobes,? ...

    • Eddy Seeding in the Labrador Sea: A Submerged Autonomous Launch Platform Application 

      Furey, Heather H.; Femke de Jong, M.; Valdes, James R.; Bower, Amy S. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      wo submerged autonomous launch platforms (SALPs) were deployed at 500-m depth on a deep-water mooring in the northeastern Labrador Sea from 2007 to 2009 to automatically release profiling floats into passing warm-core ...

    • Radiometric Intercomparison between Suomi-NPP VIIRS and Aqua MODIS Reflective Solar Bands Using Simultaneous Nadir Overpass in the Low Latitudes 

      Uprety, Sirish; Cao, Changyong; Xiong, Xiaoxiong; Blonski, Slawomir; Wu, Aisheng; Shao, Xi (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      n-orbit radiometric performance of the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (Suomi-NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) is studied using the extended simultaneous nadir overpass (SNO-x) approach. ...

    • Evaluating Light Rain Drop Size Estimates from Multiwavelength Micropulse Lidar Network Profiling 

      Lolli, Simone; Welton, Ellsworth J.; Campbell, James R. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      his paper investigates multiwavelength retrievals of median equivolumetric drop diameter D0 suitable for drizzle and light rain, through collocated 355-/527-nm Micropulse Lidar Network (MPLNET) observations collected during ...

    • Deep Velocity Profiling with Self-contained ADCPs 

      Fischer, J.; Visbeck, M. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      Ocean deep velocity profiles were obtained by lowering a self-contained 153.6-kHz acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) attached to a CTD-rosette sampler. The data were sampled during two Meteor cruises in the western ...

    • A New Platform for the Determination of Air–Sea Fluxes (OCARINA): Overview and First Results 

      Bourras, D.; Branger, H.; Reverdin, G.; Marié, L.; Cambra, R.; Baggio, L.; Caudoux, C.; Caudal, G.; Morisset, S.; Geyskens, N.; Weill, A.; Hauser, D. (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      he present paper describes a new type of floating platform that was specifically designed for estimating air?sea fluxes, investigating turbulence characteristics in the atmospheric surface boundary layer, and studying ...

    • Radio Occultation Observations as Anchor Observations in Numerical Weather Prediction Models and Associated Reduction of Bias Corrections in Microwave and Infrared Satellite Observations 

      Cucurull, L.; Anthes, R. A.; Tsao, L.-L. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      atellite radiance measurements are used daily at numerical weather prediction (NWP) centers around the world, providing a significant positive impact on weather forecast skill. Owing to the existence of systematic errors, ...

    • CORRIGENDUM 

      van Dinther, Daniëlle; Hartogensis, Oscar K.; Moene, Arnold F. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)

    • A Novel and Low-Cost Sea Ice Mass Balance Buoy 

      Jackson, Keith; Wilkinson, Jeremy; Maksym, Ted; Meldrum, David; Beckers, Justin; Haas, Christian; Mackenzie, David (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      he understanding of sea ice mass balance processes requires continuous monitoring of the seasonal evolution of the ice thickness. While autonomous ice mass balance (IMB) buoys deployed over the past two decades have ...

    • Striping in the Suomi NPP VIIRS Thermal Bands through Anisotropic Surface Reflection 

      Liu, Quanhua; Cao, Changyong; Weng, Fuzhong (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      he Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) thermal emissive band (TEB) M12 images centered at 3.7 ?m were analyzed and unexpected striping was found. The striping was seen from ascending orbit (daytime) over ...

    • Polarimetric Radar Observations of Biological Scatterers in Hurricanes Irene (2011) and Sandy (2012) 

      Van Den Broeke, Matthew S. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      iological scatterers, consisting of birds and insects, may become trapped near the circulation center of tropical cyclones, particularly if a well-developed eyewall is present. These scatterers may be observed using weather ...

    • Scanning ARM Cloud Radars. Part II: Data Quality Control and Processing 

      Kollias, Pavlos; Jo, Ieng; Borque, Paloma; Tatarevic, Aleksandra; Lamer, Katia; Bharadwaj, Nitin; Widener, Kevin; Johnson, Karen; Clothiaux, Eugene E. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      he scanning Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program cloud radars (SACRs) are the primary instruments for documenting the four-dimensional structure and evolution of clouds within a 20?30-km radius of the ARM fixed ...

    • A Statistical Method for Improving Continental Shelf and Nearshore Marine Climate Predictions 

      Oliver, Eric C. J.; Holbrook, Neil J. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      patially and temporally homogeneous measurements of ocean temperature variability at high resolution on the continental shelf are scarce. Daily estimates of large-scale ocean properties are readily available from global ...

    • Cloud Classification of Ground-Based Images Using Texture–Structure Features 

      Zhuo, Wen; Cao, Zhiguo; Xiao, Yang (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      loud classification of ground-based images is a challenging task. Recent research has focused on extracting discriminative image features, which are mainly divided into two categories: 1) choosing appropriate texture ...

    • An Advanced Radiosonde System for Aerospace Applications 

      Divya, U. S.; Girija, J.; Satyanarayana, S.; Zachariah, John P. (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      he Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)?s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) has developed a new GPS radiosonde, called Pisharoty sonde, with its ground station for atmospheric research and operational meteorology. ...