Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Recent submissions
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GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager Color Product Development
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)The current Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) series was inaugurated in 1994 with the launch of GOES-8 and will continue with two more satellites (GOES-O and -P) after the most recent GOES-13 launched ... -
Statistical Analysis of Sodium Doppler Wind–Temperature Lidar Measurements of Vertical Heat Flux
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)A statistical study is presented of the errors in sodium Doppler lidar measurements of wind and temperature in the mesosphere that arise from the statistics of the photon-counting process that is inherent in the technique. ... -
Optimal Compression of High Spectral Resolution Satellite Data via Adaptive Vector Quantization with Linear Prediction
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)Contemporary and future high spectral resolution sounders represent a significant technical advancement for environmental and meteorological prediction and monitoring. Given their large volume of spectral observations, the ... -
A New Method for Time Series Filtering near Endpoints
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)Time series filtering (e.g., smoothing) can be done in the spectral domain without loss of endpoints. However, filtering is commonly performed in the time domain using convolutions, resulting in lost points near the series ... -
The Eyewall-Penetration Reconnaissance Observation of Typhoon Longwang (2005) with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Aerosonde
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)In this paper, a successful eye-penetration reconnaissance flight by an unmanned aerial vehicle, Aerosonde, into Typhoon Longwang (2005) and the preliminary analyses of the collected data are presented. The 10-h flight is ... -
A Time Series Weather Radar Simulator Based on High-Resolution Atmospheric Models
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)A three-dimensional radar simulator capable of generating simulated raw time series data for a weather radar has been designed and implemented. The characteristics of the radar signals (amplitude, phase) are derived from ... -
Calibration Assessment of ISCCP Geostationary Infrared Observations Using HIRS
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)Infrared window (?11 ?m) brightness temperatures from global geostationary meteorological instruments were calibrated using the High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) as an independent analysis of the satellite ... -
The Validation of AIRS Retrievals of Integrated Precipitable Water Vapor Using Measurements from a Network of Ground-Based GPS Receivers over the Contiguous United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)A robust and easily implemented verification procedure based on the column-integrated precipitable water (IPW) vapor estimates derived from a network of ground-based global positioning system (GPS) receivers has been used ... -
Reexamination of the Depth Error in XBT Data
(American Meteorological Society, 1991)By using the accumulated datasets of CTD-XBT comparison experiments since 1985, the depth errors for both T-7 and T-6 probes were reexamined. All the XBT probes used here were manufactured by the Tsurumi-Seiki Company, ... -
Estimating Rain Rates from Tipping-Bucket Rain Gauge Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)This paper describes the cubic spline?based operational system for the generation of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) 1-min rain-rate product 2A-56 from tipping-bucket (TB) gauge measurements. A simulated TB ... -
The Comprehensive Pacific Rainfall Database
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)This paper describes the Comprehensive Pacific Rainfall Database (PACRAIN), which contains daily and monthly precipitation records from the tropical Pacific basin. The database is a collection of observations from a variety ... -
Tropospheric Comparisons of Vaisala Radiosondes and Balloon-Borne Frost-Point and Lyman-α Hygrometers during the LAUTLOS-WAVVAP Experiment
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)The accuracy of all types of Vaisala radiosondes and two types of Snow White chilled-mirror hygrosondes was assessed in an intensive in situ comparison with reference hygrometers. Fourteen nighttime reference comparisons ... -
A Relaxed Eddy Accumulation System for Measuring Surface Fluxes of Total Gaseous Mercury
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)A relaxed eddy accumulation (REA) system was designed to continuously measure total gaseous mercury (TGM) fluxes over a forest canopy. TGM concentration measurements were measured at 5-min intervals with a Tekran model ... -
Spectral UV Measurements of Global Irradiance, Solar Radiance, and Actinic Flux in New Zealand: Intercomparison between Instruments and Model Calculations
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)Presented here are the results of a short but intense measurement campaign at Lauder, New Zealand, in which spectral irradiance from instruments operated by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) ... -
Cloud Detection with MODIS. Part II: Validation
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)An assessment of the performance of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) cloud mask algorithm for Terra and Aqua satellites is presented. The MODIS cloud mask algorithm output is compared with lidar ... -
Evaluation of the Simultaneous Multiple Pulse Repetition Frequency Algorithm for Weather Radar
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)Performance of the simultaneous multiple pulse repetition frequency algorithm (SMPRF) for recovery of mean power and mean Doppler velocity is investigated using simulated weather radar data. Operation and functionality of ... -
Light Reflection from Water Waves: Suitable Setup for a Polarimetric Investigation under Controlled Laboratory Conditions
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)The reflection of sunlight from a wavy water surface, often referred to as sun glint, is a well-known phenomenon that presents challenges but also hitherto untapped opportunities in remote sensing based on satellite imagery. ... -
Intersatellite Temperature Bias: Elimination through Statistical Calibration
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)Global cloud imagery (GCI) is constructed from multiple satellite platforms that simultaneously monitor the earth. The GCI overcomes sampling limitations that are inherent to measurements from an individual platform, and ... -
Applications of an Infrared Doppler Lidar in Detection of Wind Shear
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)In December 2005, operational wind shear alerting at the Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) reached an important milestone with the launch of the automatic Lidar (light detection and ranging) Windshear Alerting System ... -
The Development of a Miniature Optical Sensor for Balloon-Borne Measurements of Ozone Profiles
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)A new autonomous balloon-borne sounding system for the measurement of stratospheric trace gas profiles was designed and constructed. Major components of the sonde are a miniature grating spectrometer, which covers a ...