Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Recent submissions
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Rigorous Evaluation of a Fraternal Twin Ocean OSSE System for the Open Gulf of Mexico
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)new fraternal twin ocean observing system simulation experiment (OSSE) system is validated in a Gulf of Mexico domain. It is the first ocean system that takes full advantage of design criteria and rigorous evaluation ... -
The Influence of Frequency Shifts in Microwave Sounder Channels on NWP Analyses and Forecasts
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he sensitivity of numerical weather prediction (NWP) analysis and forecast accuracies with respect to frequency shifts in microwave passbands is quantified through a series of observing system experiments using the ECMWF ... -
Performance of Ocean Simulations in the Coupled HWRF–HYCOM Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)his paper introduces a next-generation operational Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) system that was developed at the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction. The new system, HWRF?Hybrid Coordinate ... -
Estimating Changes in Near-Shore Bathymetry with Subaerial Surveys
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)urveys of the subaerial beach (e.g., landward of approximately the MSL depth contour) are widely used to evaluate temporal changes in sand levels over large alongshore reaches. Here, seasonal beach face volume changes based ... -
Error Estimates for Ocean Surface Winds: Applying Desroziers Diagnostics to the Cross-Calibrated, Multiplatform Analysis of Wind Speed
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he Desroziers diagnostics (DD) are applied to the cross-calibrated, multiplatform (CCMP) ocean surface wind datasets to estimate wind speed errors of the ECMWF background, the microwave satellite observations, and the ... -
Comparison of Two Convective/Stratiform Precipitation Classification Techniques: Radar Reflectivity Texture versus Drop Size Distribution–Based Approach
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)-band polarimetric radar measurements spanning two wet seasons are used to perform a critical evaluation of two algorithms for the classification of stratiform and convective precipitation. The first approach is based on ... -
Impact of Terrain Altitude and Cloud Height on Ozone Remote Sensing from Satellite
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)errain and cloud height heavily impact ozone information despite ozone being concentrated in the stratosphere. The ozone weighting function (OWF) provides important information towards understanding the capabilities and ... -
Two-Dimensional Rotorcraft Downwash Flow Field Measurements by Lidar-Based Wind Scanners with Agile Beam Steering
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)major risk to helicopters is the unexpected encounter of degraded visual environments in close-to-ground operations, where a loss of visibility often is caused by clouds of dust (brownout) or snow (whiteout) stirred up by ... -
High-Resolution Hurricane Vector Winds from C-Band Dual-Polarization SAR Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)his study presents a new approach for retrieving hurricane surface wind vectors utilizing C-band dual-polarization (VV, VH) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) observations. The copolarized geophysical model function [C-band ... -
Improved Airborne Hot-Wire Measurements of Ice Water Content in Clouds
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)irborne measurements of ice water content (IWC) in both ice and mixed-phase clouds remain one of the long-standing problems in experimental cloud physics. For nearly three decades, IWC has been measured with the help of ... -
Enhanced Radar Backscattering due to Oriented Ice Particles at 95 GHz during StormVEx
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)onspherical atmospheric ice particles can enhance radar backscattering and attenuation above that expected from spheres of the same mass. An analysis of scanning 95-GHz radar data collected during the Storm Peak Laboratory ... -
Radial-Based Noise Power Estimation for Weather Radars
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)radar antenna intercepts thermal radiation from various sources including the ground, the sun, the sky, precipitation, and man-made radiators. In the radar receiver, this external radiation produces noise that constructively ... -
The Doppler Aerosol Wind (DAWN) Airborne, Wind-Profiling Coherent-Detection Lidar System: Overview and Preliminary Flight Results
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he first airborne wind measurements of a pulsed, 2-?m solid-state, high-energy, wind-profiling lidar system for airborne measurements are presented. The laser pulse energy is the highest to date in an eye-safe airborne ... -
Intercalibrating Microwave Satellite Observations for Monitoring Long-Term Variations in Upper- and Midtropospheric Water Vapor
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)his paper analyzes the growing archive of 183-GHz water vapor absorption band measurements from the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit B (AMSU-B) and Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) on board polar-orbiting satellites and ... -
Application of Cloud Occurrence Climatology from CALIOP to Evaluate Performances of Airborne and Satellite Electro-Optical Sensors
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)wide variety of optronic sensors, on board a satellite or airborne platform, are used for remote sensing, surveillance applications, and telecommunications. Cloud presence in the field of view is one of the key factors ... -
Techniques for Using MODIS Data to Remotely Sense Lake Water Surface Temperatures
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)his study describes a stepwise methodology used to provide daily high-spatial-resolution water surface temperatures from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite data for use nearly in real time for ... -
Revisiting Microstructure Sensor Responses with Implications for Double-Diffusive Fluxes
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)hin high-gradient interfaces that occur naturally within double-diffusive staircases are used to estimate the response characteristics of temperature and conductivity microstructure sensors. The knowledge of these responses ... -
Assessment of Shortwave Infrared Sea Surface Reflection and Nonlocal Thermodynamic Equilibrium Effects in the Community Radiative Transfer Model Using IASI Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he nadir-viewing satellite radiances at shortwave infrared channels from 3.5 to 4.6 ?m are not currently assimilated in operational numerical weather prediction data assimilation systems and are not adequately corrected ... -
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The DeTect Inc. RAPTOR VAD-BL Radar Wind Profiler
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he DeTect Inc. RAPTOR velocity?azimuth display boundary layer (VAD-BL) radar wind profiler is a pulsed Doppler radar used to make automatic unattended measurements of wind profiles in the lower atmosphere. All data products ...