Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Recent submissions
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The New Cardington Balloon-Borne Turbulence Probe System
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)A new instrument package has been developed to measure turbulence at various heights in the boundary layer. The package or ?turbulence probe? is designed to be attached to the tethering cable of a balloon. In contrast to ... -
Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Oceanic Mixed Layer Observations in Hurricane Josephine Obtained from Air-Deployed Drifting Buoys and Research Aircraft
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)Three drifting buoys were successfully air-dropped ahead of Hurricane Josephine. This deployment resulted in detailed simultaneous measurements of surface wind speed, surface pressure and subsurface ocean temperature during ... -
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The Use of Loran-C Drifters to Locate Eddies on the Continental Shelf
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Effects of Solar Radiation on the Performance of Pyrgeometers with Silicon Domes
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)The performance of the Eppley pyrgeometer with a silicon dome presents several anomalies during daytime measurements. These problems are related mainly to the solar heating of the dome, which causes nearly instantaneous ... -
Low-Cost Wind Speed Measurements Using Naphthalene Evaporation
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)Six 125-cm3 metal mesh cages, filled with 99% pure naphthalene mothballs, were suspended near anemometers during 8 winter weeks. Each week the cages were weighed to determine how much evaporation had occurred. A least-squares ... -
Ocean-Displacement Measurements from Motion-Contaminated Towed Temperature Arrays
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)In attempting to understand the small-scale physical processes that occur within a particular area of the ocean, oceanographers typically examine the local internal wave activity there. The local internal wave activity, ... -
Measuring Drop-Size Distributions in Clouds with a Clear-Air-Sensing Doppler Radar
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)The advent of Doppler clear-air radars for wind-height profiling opens the way for their use in a variety of other applications. This paper uses knowledge of the clear-air Doppler spectrum from a zenith-pointing radar ... -
Calibration of the Solar Channels of the NOAA-9 AVHRR Using High Altitude Aircraft Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)A method for calibrating satellite radiometers is investigated. A calibrated spectral radiometer carried aboard a U2 aircraft at an altitude of 60 000 ft was aligned with White Sands. New Mexico along the same view vector ... -
Evaluation of an Improved Set of Predictors for Derivation of Total Ozone from TOVS Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)Three improvements to the operational regression procedures used at NOAA/NESDIS to derive total ozone from the TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) measurements are evaluated. An additional predictor, derived from the ... -
Time Series Measurements from a Moored Fluorescence-Based Dissolved Oxygen Sensor
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)We present an analysis of time-series measurements from a prototype fluorescence-quenching dissolved oxygen sensor moored for a six-day period in late March 1987 at 100 m depth in Saanich Inlet, British Columbia. Temporal ... -
Near-Surface Current Measurements in the Gulf Stream Using an Upward-Looking Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)During November 1986, a 6-day record was collected from a 150 kHz Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) mounted in the upward-looking mode on a subsurface mooring in the Gulf Stream near Cape Hatteras. The flotation ... -
Boundary-Layer Water Vapor Probing with a Solar-Blind Raman Lidar: Validations, Meteorological Observations and Prospects
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)The ability of a solar-blind Raman lidar (SBRL) to measure the vertical profile of water vapor in the boundary layer is proved from a theoretical as well as an experimental point of view. Theoretical calculations show that ... -
Corrigendum
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)Correction to Volume 5, Issue 1, pages 160-170. -
Assembly and Field Testing of a Ground-Based Presence-of-Cloud Detector
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)A presence-of-cloud (POC) detector has been developed for use in remote locations. The principal components of the POC detector are a moisture-sensitive resistance grid, a heater, a fan, and housing with rain shielding. ... -
A New Slant on the Distribution and Measurement of Hydrometeor Canting Angles
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)Several models have been developed in the past to describe the distribution of hydrometeor canting angles and the resulting effects on polarimetric radar measurements. These models are reviewed to compare their characteristics ... -
PASS: A Portable Atmospheric Sampling System for Chemical Studies in the Marine Troposphere
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)The measurement of many trace substances in the remote marine atmosphere requires that they be collected under controlled conditions and that meteorological and other data concerning these measurements be available to the ... -
Corrections of Surface Particle Probe Measurements for the Effects of Aspiration
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)Particle probes from Particle Measuring Systems are routinely designed to be mounted on an aircraft or other movable platform. There are attempts, however, to apply this technology to stationary surface measurements by ... -
Atmospheric Profiling of Water Vapor Density with a 20.5–23.5 GHz Autocorrelation Radiometer
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)A tropospheric water vapor density profiling system is presented. The hardware consists of an autocorrelation radiometer (CORRAD) operating over a frequency range from 20.5 to 23.5 GHz. The CORRAD directly measures the ... -
A New Method for Measuring Aerosol Absorption
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)A new technique has recently been developed to measure aerosol absorption by means of a microdensitometer. Black particulate material is collected into six spots on membrane filters by a laboratory-tested impaction/concentration ...