Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Deriving Arctic Cloud Microphysics at Barrow, Alaska: Algorithms, Results, and Radiative Closure
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)loud phase and microphysical properties control the radiative effects of clouds in the climate system and are therefore crucial to characterize in a variety of conditions and locations. An Arctic-specific, ground-based, ... -
Assessing Seasonality in the Surface Urban Heat Island of London
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)his paper assesses the seasonality of the urban heat island (UHI) effect in the Greater London area (United Kingdom). Combining satellite-based observations and urban boundary layer climate modeling with the UrbClim model, ... -
A Retrieval of Tropical Latent Heating Using the 3D Structure of Precipitation Features
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)adar-based latent heating retrievals typically apply a lookup table (LUT) derived from model output to surface rain amounts and rain type to determine the vertical structure of heating. In this study, a method has been ... -
Thermodynamic Phase and Ice Cloud Properties in Northern Hemisphere Winter Extratropical Cyclones Observed by Aqua AIRS
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)ce cloud properties in Northern Hemisphere winter extratropical cyclones are examined using the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), version 6, cloud products. The cloud thermodynamic phase product indicates that warm ... -
Evaluation of the Lidar–Radar Cloud Ice Water Content Retrievals Using Collocated in Situ Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)emote sensing and in situ measurements made during the Colorado Airborne Multiphase Cloud Study, 2010?2011 (CAMPS) with instruments aboard the University of Wyoming King Air aircraft are used to evaluate lidar?radar-retrieved ... -
The Use of CloudSat Data to Evaluate Retrievals of Total Ice Content in Precipitating Cloud Systems from Ground-Based Operational Radar Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)n approach is described to retrieve the total amount of ice in a vertical atmospheric column in precipitating clouds observed by the operational Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) systems. This amount expressed ... -
Understanding Atmospheric Motion Vector Vertical Representativity Using a Simulation Study and First-Guess Departure Statistics
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)tmospheric motion vectors (AMVs) have been produced for decades and remain an important source of wind information. Many studies have suggested that the traditional interpretation of AMVs as representative of the wind at ... -
A 6-yr Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Climatology and Its Relationship to Rainfall over Central and Eastern China
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning climatology and its relationship to rainfall over central and eastern China is examined, using data from 32 million CG lightning flashes and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission measurements ... -
Validation of The Bureau of Meteorology’s Global, Diffuse, and Direct Solar Exposure Forecasts Using the ACCESS Numerical Weather Prediction Systems
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)orecast solar exposure fields produced by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology?s updated numerical weather prediction systems were validated against multiple sites for the 2012 calendar year. The updated systems are denoted ... -
An Improved Trajectory Model to Evaluate the Collection Performance of Snow Gauges
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)ecent studies have used numerical models to estimate the collection efficiency of solid precipitation gauges when exposed to the wind in both shielded and unshielded configurations. The models used computational fluid ... -
Impact of Wind Direction, Wind Speed, and Particle Characteristics on the Collection Efficiency of the Double Fence Intercomparison Reference
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he accurate measurement of snowfall is important in various fields of study such as climate variability, transportation, and water resources. A major concern is that snowfall measurements are difficult and can result in ... -
Delayed Impacts of Tropical Cyclones Irene 2011 and Isaac 2012 in the Caribbean Antilles
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)his study considers tropical cyclones Irene in Puerto Rico from 2011 and Isaac in the Dominican Republic from 2012. Impacts trailed more than a day after the storm in both cases. Irene passed Puerto Rico on 22 August 2011, ... -
One-Way Coupling of the WRF–QUIC Urban Dispersion Modeling System
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)imulations of local weather and air quality in urban areas must account for processes spanning from meso- to microscales, including turbulence and transport within the urban canopy layer. Here, the authors investigate the ... -
A Global Assessment of the Spatial Distribution of Precipitation Occurrence
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he spatial distribution of precipitation occurrence has important implications for numerous applications ranging from defining cloud radiative effects to modeling hydrologic runoff, statistical downscaling, and stochastic ... -
Characterization of Hydrometeors in Sahelian Convective Systems with an X-Band Radar and Comparison with In Situ Measurements. Part I: Sensitivity of Polarimetric Radar Particle Identification Retrieval and Case Study Evaluation
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he particle identification scheme developed by Dolan and Rutledge for X-band polarimetric radar is tested for the first time in Africa and compared with in situ measurements. The data were acquired during the Megha-Tropiques ... -
Characterization of Hydrometeors in Sahelian Convective Systems with an X-Band Radar and Comparison with In Situ Measurements. Part II: A Simple Brightband Method to Infer the Density of Icy Hydrometeors
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)simple scheme that is based on the shape and intensity of the radar bright band is used to infer the density of hydrometeors just above the freezing level in Sahelian mesoscale convective systems (MCS). Four MCS jointly ... -
Linear Depolarization Ratios of Columnar Ice Crystals in a Deep Precipitating System over the Arctic Observed by Zenith-Pointing Ka-Band Doppler Radar
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)his study demonstrates that linear depolarization ratio (LDR) values obtained from zenith-pointing Ka-band radar Doppler velocity spectra are sufficient for detecting columnar ice crystals. During a deep precipitating ... -
A Method to Assess the Wind and Solar Resource and to Quantify Interannual Variability over the United States under Current and Projected Future Climate
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he National Center for Atmospheric Research and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) collaborated to develop a method to assess the interannual variability of wind and solar power over the contiguous United ... -
Constraining a 3DVAR Radar Data Assimilation System with Large-Scale Analysis to Improve Short-Range Precipitation Forecasts
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)t is known from previous studies that radar data assimilation can improve short-range forecasts of precipitation, mainly when radial wind and reflectivity are available. However, from the authors? experience radar data ...