Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Polarimetric Radar Signatures of Dendritic Growth Zones within Colorado Winter Storms
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)-band polarimetric radar observations of winter storms in northeastern Colorado on 20?21 February, 9 March, and 9 April 2013 are examined. These observations were taken by the Colorado State University?University of ... -
The Influence of Urbanization on the Climate of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area: A Numerical Study
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)n this study, the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model and its embedded land surface and urban canopy model are used to simulate effects of urbanization on the local climate of the Las Vegas, Nevada, metropolitan ... -
Ground-Based Temperature and Humidity Profiling Using Spectral Infrared and Microwave Observations. Part II: Actual Retrieval Performance in Clear-Sky and Cloudy Conditions
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)lthough current upper-air observing systems provide an impressive array of observations, many are deficient in observing the temporal evolution of the boundary layer thermodynamic profile. Ground-based remote sensing ... -
Estimating Snow Cover Duration from Ground Temperature
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)now cover duration is commonly derived from snow depth, snow water equivalent, or satellite data. Snow cover duration has more recently also been inferred from ground temperature data. In this study, a probabilistic snow ... -
X-Band Polarimetric and Ka-Band Doppler Spectral Radar Observations of a Graupel-Producing Arctic Mixed-Phase Cloud
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)haracteristics of graupel in an Arctic deep mixed-phase cloud on 7 December 2013 were identified with observations from an X-band scanning polarimetric radar and a Ka-band zenith-pointing radar in conjunction with scattering ... -
Climatology, Variability, and Trends in the U.S. Vapor Pressure Deficit, an Important Fire-Related Meteorological Quantity
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)nlike the commonly used relative humidity, vapor pressure deficit (VPD) is an absolute measure of the difference between the water vapor content of the air and its saturation value and an accurate metric of the ability of ... -
The Paths of Extratropical Cyclones Associated with Wintertime High-Wind Events in the Northeastern United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)his study analyzes the association between wintertime high-wind events (HWEs) in the northeastern United States and extratropical cyclones. Sustained wind maxima in the daily summary data from the National Climatic Data ... -
Characteristics of the Springtime Alpine Valley Atmospheric Boundary Layer Using Self-Organizing Maps
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)ertical profiles of wind velocity and air temperature from a sound detection and ranging (sodar) radio acoustic sounding system (RASS)-derived dataset within an alpine valley of the New Zealand Southern Alps were analyzed. ... -
Trends and Spatial Variability in Dry Spells across the South-Central United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)nnual average and maximum spells with no precipitation in the southern United States are analyzed. In this study, dry spells are defined as consecutive days with no measurable rainfall. The study area includes 70 weather ... -
Drought and Pluvial Dipole Events within the Great Plains of the United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he purpose of this study was to quantify dipole events (a drought year followed by a pluvial year) for various spatial scales including the nine Oklahoma climate divisions and the author-defined regions of the U.S. Southern ... -
Interpolation of Global Monthly Rain Gauge Observations for Climate Change Analysis
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)ong-term global gridded datasets of observed precipitation are essential for the analysis of the global water and energy cycle, its variability, and possible changes. Several institutions provide those datasets. In 2005 ... -
An NARR-Derived Climatology of Southerly and Northerly Low-Level Jets over North America and Coastal Environs
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) was used to develop an expanded, long-term (1979?2009) climatology of meridional (southerly and northerly) low-level jets over North America and surrounding coastal environs. ... -
Summertime Response of Temperature and Cooling Energy Demand to Urban Expansion in a Semiarid Environment
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)his article explores regional impacts on near-surface air temperature and air conditioning (AC) electricity consumption due to projected urban expansion in a semiarid environment. In addition to the modern-day urban landscape ... -
A Regression-Based Approach for Cool-Season Storm Surge Predictions along the New York–New Jersey Coast
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)multilinear regression (MLR) approach is developed to predict 3-hourly storm surge during the cool-season months (1 October?31 March 31) between 1979 and 2012 using two different atmospheric reanalysis datasets and water-level ... -
An Integrated Procedure to Determine a Reference Station Network for Evaluating and Adjusting Urban Bias in Surface Air Temperature Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)rends in surface air temperature (SAT) are a critical indicator for climate change at varied spatial scales. Because of urbanization effects, however, the current SAT records of many urban stations can hardly meet the ... -
The Dependence of QPF on the Choice of Boundary- and Surface-Layer Parameterization for a Lake-Effect Snowstorm
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)ix forecasts of a lake-effect-snow event off Lake Erie were conducted using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model to determine how the quantitative precipitation forecast (QPF) was affected when the boundary- and ... -
AIRS, IASI, and CrIS Retrieval Records at Climate Scales: An Investigation into the Propagation of Systematic Uncertainty
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)ncertainty requirements for climate observations are more stringent than for weather observations because of the scale dependency of natural variation. At present there is no space-based climate observing system, so weather ... -
Hodographs of Slowly Rotating Winds in Midlatitudes
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)rend analysis of hourly wind direction angle recorded at nine meteorological stations across southern Canada (in the 43°?53°N belt) identified wind direction rotation periods in the range of 7?9 days. Rotation persists ... -
Impacts of Gulf of Mexico SST Anomalies on Southern Plains Freezing Precipitation: ARW Sensitivity Study of the 28–30 January 2010 Winter Storm
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)ce storms are an infrequent but significant hazard in the U.S southern Great Plains. Common synoptic profiles for freezing precipitation reveal advection of low-level warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), above a ... -
Mitigating Excessive Drying from the Use of Observations in Mesoscale Modeling
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)bservations can be used to enhance mesoscale model forecasts by both improving the initial conditions and adjusting the model state toward the observations during its forward integration. Since observations are not available ...