Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Recent submissions
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A Generalized Method for Estimating the Structure of the Equatorial Atlantic Cold Tongue: Application to Drifter Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)generalized method is developed to determine the position of the Atlantic northern cold tongue front across its zonal extent from satellite sea surface temperature (SST) data. Previous approaches estimated the frontal ... -
Resolution and Accuracy of an Airborne Scanning Laser System for Beach Surveys
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)irborne scanning laser technology provides an effective method to systematically survey surface topography and changes in that topography with time. In this paper, the authors describe the capability of a rapid-response ... -
Dust Accumulation Biases in PIRATA Shortwave Radiation Records
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)ong-term and direct measurements of surface shortwave radiation (SWR) have been recorded by the Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic (PIRATA) since 1997. Previous studies have shown that African ... -
A Hybrid MPI–OpenMP Parallel Algorithm and Performance Analysis for an Ensemble Square Root Filter Designed for Multiscale Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)hybrid parallel scheme for the ensemble square root filter (EnSRF) suitable for parallel assimilation of multiscale observations, including those from dense observational networks such as those of radar, is developed based ... -
A Mobile Rapid-Scanning X-band Polarimetric (RaXPol) Doppler Radar System
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)novel, rapid-scanning, X-band (3-cm wavelength), polarimetric (RaXPol), mobile radar was developed for severe-weather research. The radar employs a 2.4-m-diameter dual-polarized parabolic dish antenna on a high-speed ... -
Comparison of Raindrop Size Distribution Measurements by Collocated Disdrometers
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)n impact-type Joss?Waldvogel disdrometer (JWD), a two-dimensional video disdrometer (2DVD), and a laser optical OTT Particle Size and Velocity (PARSIVEL) disdrometer (PD) were used to measure the raindrop size distribution ... -
A Quality Control Procedure for FY-3A MWTS Measurements with Emphasis on Cloud Detection Using VIRR Cloud Fraction
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)quality control (QC) procedure for satellite radiance assimilation is proposed and applied to radiance observations from the Microwave Temperature Sounder (MWTS) on board the first satellite of the Chinese polar-orbiting ... -
Solutions for Improving the Radar Refractivity Measurement by Taking Operational Constraints into Account
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)tmospheric refractivity depends on meteorological parameters such as temperature, water vapor pressure, and air pressure and can be measured using weather radar. This could be useful for convection prediction through the ... -
Evaluation of the Hurricane Research Division Doppler Radar Analysis Software Using Synthetic Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he Hurricane Research Division Doppler radar analysis software provides three-dimensional analyses of the three wind components in tropical cyclones. Although this software has been used for over a decade, there has never ... -
Real-Time Detection and Filtering of Chaff Clutter from Single-Polarization Doppler Radar Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)n countries with frequent aerial military exercises, chaff particles that are routinely spread by military aircraft represent significant noise sources for ground-based weather radar observation. In this study, a cost-effective ... -
Performance Characteristics of Distinct Lightning Detection Networks Covering Belgium
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)his study reports results from electric field measurements coupled to high-speed camera observations of cloud-to-ground lightning to test the performance of lightning location networks in terms of its detection efficiency ... -
A New Sensor Platform for Investigating Turbulence in Stratified Coastal Environments
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)haracterizing and quantifying vertical exchange processes is essential for understanding physical and biological dynamics in stratified lakes and oceans. Unfortunately, the role of mixing is still poorly understood because ... -
Sea Ice Identification and Derivation of Its Velocity Field by X-Band Doppler Radar
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)n this study a 3D scanning X-band Doppler radar (XDR) was deployed near the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk, Hokkaido, Japan, in November 2005 to simultaneously observe sea ice and snow clouds. Doppler radars are commonly used ... -
Comparison of Cloud Properties from Ground-Based Infrared Cloud Measurement and Visual Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)loud properties derived from the whole-sky infrared cloud-measuring system (WSIRCMS) are analyzed in relation to measurements of visual observations and a ceilometer during the period July?August 2010 at the Chinese ... -
Exploring the Benefits of Using CryoSat-2's Cross-Track Interferometry to Improve the Resolution of Multisatellite Mesoscale Fields
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)ea surface height (SSH) measurements provided by pulse-limited radar altimeters are one-dimensional profiles along the satellite's nadir track, with no information whatsoever in the cross-track direction. The anisotropy ... -
Test of a Method for Monitoring the Geostrophic Meridional Overturning Circulation Using Only Boundary Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)easurements of ocean bottom pressure, particularly on the continental slope, make an efficient means of monitoring large-scale integrals of the ocean circulation. However, direct pressure measurements are limited to ... -
The Case of Sharp Velocity Transitions in High Vertical Wind Shear When Measuring Doppler Velocities with Narrow Nyquist Intervals
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)n investigation was launched following unexpected observations of step-function transitions in Doppler velocities from scanning radars in regions of high vertical wind shear. It revealed that, if wind velocity transitions ... -
In-Place Estimation of Wet Radome Attenuation at X Band
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he effect of wet radome attenuation is estimated on a French operational X-band weather radar deployed in the Maritime Alps of southeastern France. As the radar is deployed in a remote location, the reflectivity factor in ... -
Monthly Crustal Loading Corrections for Satellite Altimetry
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)atellite altimeter measurements of sea surface height include a small contribution from vertical motion of the seafloor caused by crustal loading. Loading by ocean tides is routinely allowed for in altimeter data processing. ... -
Evaluation and Improvement of an Iterative Scattering Correction Scheme for in situ Absorption and Attenuation Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he performance of several scattering correction schemes for reflecting-tube absorption and beam attenuation measurements is evaluated with data collected in European shelf seas. Standard scattering correction procedures ...