Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Recent submissions
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Using Genetic Algorithms to Optimize Bathymetric Sampling for Predictive Model Input
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)his paper describes the use of an optimization method to effectively reduce the required bathymetric sampling for forcing a numerical forecast model by using the model?s sensitivity to this input. A genetic algorithm is ... -
Assessing Temporal Aliasing in Satellite-Based Surface Salinity Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he Aquarius/Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas-D (SAC-D) salinity remote sensing mission is intended to provide global mapping of sea surface salinity (SSS) fields over the next few years. Temporal and spatial averages ... -
Regression Models for Outlier Identification (Hurricanes and Typhoons) in Wave Hindcast Databases
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he development of numerical wave prediction models for hindcast applications allows a detailed description of wave climate in locations where long-term instrumental records are not available. Wave hindcast databases (WHDBs) ... -
Challenges to Satellite Sensors of Ocean Winds: Addressing Precipitation Effects
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)easurements of global ocean surface winds made by orbiting satellite radars have provided valuable information to the oceanographic and meteorological communities since the launch of the Seasat in 1978, by the National ... -
Initial Studies with the Lightning Detector on the C/NOFS Satellite, and Cross Validation with WWLLN
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he lightning detector (LD) on the Communications/Navigation Outage Forecast System (C/NOFS) satellite uses a pair of silicon photodiodes, viewing each flank at right angles to the satellite track over an extended field of ... -
Three-Apogee 16-h Highly Elliptical Orbit as Optimal Choice for Continuous Meteorological Imaging of Polar Regions
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)highly elliptical orbit (HEO) with a 16-h period is proposed for continuous meteorological imaging of polar regions from a two-satellite constellation. This orbit is characterized by three apogees (TAP) separated by 120°. ... -
Multiscale Analysis of Antarctic Surface Temperature Series by Empirical Mode Decomposition
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)his article illustrates the multiscale nature of the Antarctica climatology. Its variability is analyzed from coastal weather stations climate recordings of the continent, supplying temperature data since 1955. Using ... -
Wirewalker Dynamics
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)wirewalker exploits the difference in vertical motion between a wire attached to a surface buoy and the water at the depth of a profiling body to provide the power to execute deep profiles: when the wire?s relative motion ... -
A Remotely Operated Lidar for Aerosol, Temperature, and Water Vapor Profiling in the High Arctic
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)Rayleigh?Mie?Raman lidar has been installed and is operating in the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory at Eureka in the High Arctic (79°59?N, 85°56?W) as part of the Canadian Network for the Detection of ... -
Design of a Shadowband Spectral Radiometer for the Retrieval of Thin Cloud Optical Depth, Liquid Water Path, and the Effective Radius
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he design and operation of a Thin-Cloud Rotating Shadowband Radiometer (TCRSR) described here was used to measure the radiative intensity of the solar aureole and enable the simultaneous retrieval of cloud optical depth, ... -
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The Independent Variable Interpolation Technique for Nonuniformly Sampled Shallow-Angle Lidar Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)hallow-angle lidar offers an attractive approach to acquiring spatial profiles of sea waves, which are of value in both oceanographic research and practical engineering applications, such as in the control of wave energy ... -
Effects of Sea Level Data Assimilation by Ensemble Optimal Interpolation and 3D Variational Data Assimilation on the Simulation of Variability in a Tropical Pacific Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)ea level anomalies (SLA) from the Ocean Topography Experiment (TOPEX)/Poseidon are assimilated with three-dimensional variational data assimilation (3DVAR) and ensemble optimal interpolation (EnOI) for the period of ... -
On the Use of Scattering Kernels to Calculate Ice Cloud Bulk Optical Properties
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)onspherical ice crystal optical properties are of fundamental importance to atmospheric radiative transfer through an ice cloud and the remote sensing of its properties. In practice, the optical properties of individual ... -
Using WSR-88D Data and Insolation Estimates to Determine Convective Boundary Layer Depth
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)rior work shows that Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) clear-air reflectivity can be used to determine convective boundary layer (CBL) depth. Based on that work, two simple linear regressions are developed ... -
Carbon Monoxide Urban Emission Monitoring: A Ground-Based FTIR Case Study
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he characterization and the precise measurements of atmospheric pollutant?s concentration are essential to improve the understanding and modeling of urban air pollution processes. The QualAir platform at the Université ... -
Use of Ground Clutter to Monitor Polarimetric Radar Calibration
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)t is suggested that urban ground clutter can have a role in monitoring calibration of reflectivity factor ZH and differential reflectivity ZDR on polarimetric radars. The median and average values of these variables are ... -
A Bistatic Sodar for Precision Wind Profiling in Complex Terrain
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)new ground-based wind profiling technology?a scanned bistatic sodar?is described. The motivation for this design is to obtain a ?mastlike? wind vector profile in a single atmospheric column extending from the ground to ... -
Initial Ice Microparticle Sublimation Measurements from the Levitating Upper-Tropospheric Environmental Simulator (LUTES)
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)nitial ice particle sublimation data are presented from the new Levitating Upper-Tropospheric Environmental Simulator (LUTES) at The College of New Jersey. This experimental system mimics the conditions of a typical cirrus ... -
Multivariate Wave Climate Using Self-Organizing Maps
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he visual description of wave climate is usually limited to two-dimensional conditional histograms. In this work, self-organizing maps (SOMs), because of their visualization properties, are used to characterize multivariate ...