Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Recent submissions
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Using SURFRAD to Verify the NOAA Single-Channel Land Surface Temperature Algorithm
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)ecause of spectral shifts from instrument to instrument in the operational NOAA satellite imager longwave infrared channels, the NOAA/National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) has developed ... -
Solar and Thermal Radiation Errors on Upper-Air Radiosonde Temperature Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)tmospheric temperature and humidity profiles are important for weather prediction, but climate change has increased the interest in upper-air observations asking for very high-quality reference measurements. This paper ... -
Potential Utilization of Specific Attenuation for Rainfall Estimation, Mitigation of Partial Beam Blockage, and Radar Networking
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he potential utilization of specific attenuation A for rainfall estimation, mitigation of partial beam blockage, and radar networking is investigated. The R(A) relation is less susceptible to the variability of drop size ... -
Scanning ARM Cloud Radars. Part I: Operational Sampling Strategies
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he acquisition of scanning cloud radars by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program and research institutions around the world generates the need for developing operational scan strategies for cloud radars. Here, ... -
Signal Design to Suppress Coupling in the Polarimetric Phased Array Radar
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)xamined are two related modes of polarimetric signal transmission that reduce coupling between the orthogonal components of received signals. For the surveillance scan with large unambiguous range and the simultaneous mode ... -
Adaptive Reduction of Striping for Improved Sea Surface Temperature Imagery from Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellite was successfully launched on 28 October 2011. It carries five new-generation instruments, including the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). The ... -
The Effects of Variations in Buffer Gas Mixing Ratios on Commercial Carbon Dioxide Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy Sensors
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)rimary gas standards, gas chromatography, and frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectroscopy measurements have been used to assess the effect of variations in the argon mixing ratio on the CO2 mixing ratios reported ... -
A Parametric Wind–Pressure Relationship for Rankine versus Non-Rankine Cyclostrophic Vortices
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)parametric tangential wind profile model is presented for depicting representative pressure deficit profiles corresponding to varying tangential wind profiles of a cyclostrophic, axisymmetric vortex. The model employs five ... -
A Diabatic Lagrangian Technique for the Analysis of Convective Storms. Part II: Application to a Radar-Observed Storm
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)new diabatic Lagrangian analysis (DLA) technique that derives predicted fields of potential temperature, water vapor and cloud water mixing ratios, and virtual buoyancy from three-dimensional, time-dependent wind and ... -
An Expanded VVP Technique to Resolve Primary and Environmental Circulations in Hurricanes
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)n expansion of the volume velocity processing (VVP) single-Doppler radar analysis method is presented for use with hurricanes. The so-called hurricane VVP (HVVP) method connects the estimated coefficients of a second-order ... -
Evaluation of the GOES-R ABI LAP Retrieval Algorithm Using the GOES-13 Sounder
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)physical retrieval algorithm has been developed for deriving the legacy atmospheric profile (LAP) product from infrared radiances of the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on board the next-generation Geostationary Operational ... -
Four Current Meter Models Compared in Strong Currents in Drake Passage
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)even current meters representing four models on a stiffly buoyed mooring were placed for an 11-month deployment to intercompare their velocity measurements: two vector-measuring current meters (VMCMs), two Aanderaa recording ... -
Why Did Large Differences Arise in the Sea Surface Temperature Datasets across the Tropical Pacific during 2012?
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)uring June?November 2012, pronounced differences in tropical Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies were observed between three widely used SST products: the extended reconstructed SST version 3b (ERSSTv3b), and ... -
Time-Varying Biases in U.S. Total Cloud Cover Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)his paper presents evidence of significant discontinuities in U.S. cloud cover data from the Integrated Surface Database (ISD) and its predecessor datasets. While long-term U.S. cloud records have some well-known homogeneity ... -
Rain Attenuation Prediction Model for Lagos at Millimeter Wave Bands
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)agos, Nigeria (6.35°N, 3.2°E), is a coastal station in the rain forest area of southwestern Nigeria with an altitude of 38 m. Since most communication now takes place above the X band because of congestion of lower bands, ... -
Atmospheric Duct Estimation Using Radar Sea Clutter Returns by the Adjoint Method with Regularization Technique
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)his paper focuses on retrieving the atmospheric duct structure from radar sea clutter returns by the adjoint approach with the regularization technique. The adjoint is derived from the split-step Fourier parabolic equation ... -
A Pulse Compression Waveform for Improved-Sensitivity Weather Radar Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he progression of phased array weather observations, research, and planning over the past decade has led to significant advances in development efforts for future weather radar technologies. However, numerous challenges ... -
Calibrations and Performance of the Airborne Cloud Extinction Probe
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)new airborne instrument that measures extinction coefficient ? in clouds and precipitation has been designed by Environment Canada. The cloud extinction probe (CEP) utilizes the transmissometric method, which is based on ... -
Interoperability of SeaSondes and Wellen Radars in Mapping Radial Surface Currents
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)dual-station high-frequency (HF) Wellen Radar (WERA) transmitting at 16 MHz has observed near-real-time surface currents over an approximate range of 100 km across the Florida Straits since July 2004. During a 10-day period ... -
Ranging through Shallow Semitransparent Media with Polarization Lidar
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)new approach to shallow depth measurement (<2 m) using polarization lidar is presented. The transmitter consists of a 532-nm linearly polarized laser coupled with conditioning and polarization optics. The prototype lidar ...