Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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An Anomaly-Based Method for Identifying Signals of Spring and Autumn Low-Temperature Events in the Yangtze River Valley, China
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)bnormally low temperature (LT) events in spring and autumn can cause severe damage to spring and autumn rice production in the mid- to lower Yangtze River valley in China. Advanced predictions of such events can help ... -
Dense Network Observations of the Twin Cities Canopy-Layer Urban Heat Island
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)ata from a dense urban meteorological network (UMN) are analyzed, revealing the spatial heterogeneity and temporal variability of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis?St. Paul, Minnesota) canopy-layer urban heat island (UHI). Data ... -
Insights into Atmospheric Contributors to Urban Flash Flooding across the United States Using an Analysis of Rawinsonde Data and Associated Calculated Parameters
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)looding is routinely one of the most deadly weather-related hazards in the United States, which highlights the need for more hydrometeorological research related to forecasting these hazardous events. Building upon previous ... -
Summertime Potential Evapotranspiration in Eastern Washington State
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he demands for water in agricultural regions depend on the rate of evapotranspiration (ET). Daily records of potential ET (pET) are available from the late 1980s through the present for five stations in eastern Washington ... -
The Impact of Parameterized Convection on the Simulation of Crop Processes
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)lobal climate and weather models are a key tool for the prediction of future crop productivity, but they all rely on parameterizations of atmospheric convection, which often produce significant biases in rainfall characteristics ... -
Validation of Automatic Cb Observations for METAR Messages without Ground Truth
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)n aviation meteorology, METAR messages are used to disseminate the existence of cumulonimbus (Cb) clouds. METAR messages are traditionally constructed manually from human observations, but there is a growing trend toward ... -
Climatology of Lake-Effect Precipitation Events over Lake Tahoe and Pyramid Lake
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he frequency, timing, and environmental conditions of lake-effect (LE) precipitation over Lake Tahoe and Pyramid Lake in northern California and western Nevada were examined for the 14 winters (September?March) from 1996/97 ... -
Cluster Analysis of A-Train Data: Approximating the Vertical Cloud Structure of Oceanic Cloud Regimes
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)oderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data continue to provide a wealth of two-dimensional, cloud-top information and derived environmental products. In addition, the A-Train constellation of satellites ... -
A Case Study of the Nocturnal Boundary Layer Evolution on a Slope at the Foot of a Desert Mountain
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)bservations were taken on an east-facing sidewall at the foot of a desert mountain that borders a large valley, as part of the Mountain Terrain Atmospheric Modeling and Observations (MATERHORN) field program at Dugway ... -
Combined Winds and Turbulence Prediction System for Automated Air-Traffic Management Applications
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)time-lagged ensemble of energy dissipation rate (EDR)-scale turbulence metrics is evaluated against in situ EDR observations from commercial aircraft over the contiguous United States and applied to air-traffic management ... -
Multidecadal Evaluation of WRF Downscaling Capabilities over Western Australia in Simulating Rainfall and Temperature Extremes
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he authors evaluate a 30-yr (1981?2010) Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) Model regional climate simulation over the southwest of Western Australia (SWWA), a region with a Mediterranean climate, using ERA-Interim boundary ... -
An Application of a Physical Vegetation Model to Estimate Climate Change Impacts on Rice Leaf Wetness
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)physical vegetation model [the Two-Layer Model (2LM)] was applied to estimate the climate change impacts on rice leaf wetness (LW) as a potential indicator of rice blast occurrence. Japan was used as an example. Dynamically ... -
The Accumulated Winter Season Severity Index (AWSSI)
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he character of a winter can be defined by many of its features, including temperature averages and extremes, snowfall totals, snow depth, and the duration between onset and cessation of winter-weather conditions. The ... -
Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover, Indo-Pacific SSTs, and Recent Trend as Statistical Predictors of Seasonal North American Temperature
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)aximum covariance analysis (MCA) forecasts of gridded seasonal North American temperatures are computed for January?March 1991 through February?April 2014, using as predictors Indo-Pacific sea surface temperatures (SSTs), ... -
A Comparison of MODIS-Derived Cloud Fraction with Surface Observations at Five SURFRAD Sites
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)louds determine the amount of solar radiation incident to the surface. Accurately quantifying cloud fraction is of great importance but is difficult to accomplish. Satellite and surface cloud observations have different ... -
A Climatology of Precipitating Open-Cell Convection over the Northeast Gulf of Alaska
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)his brief paper addresses the frequency of precipitating open-cell convection over the northeastern Gulf of Alaska during a 5-yr period (2002?06). The research employs 154 previously documented satellite synthetic aperture ... -
Common Marginal Cold Pools
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)his study examines marginal cold pools forming in a shallow valley. ?Marginal? refers to cold pools that are generally weak and intermittent. Nineteen stations were instrumented with sonic anemometers and accurate slow-response ... -
Comments on “Describing the Shape of Raindrop Size Distributions Using Uncorrelated Raindrop Mass Spectrum Parameters”
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Changes in Aridity across Mexico in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)ix regions in Mexico, with typical interannual changes in the aridity index, have been defined by the 1951?2001 meteorological dataset. Peak months of rainfall differ within the regions. Most of the land in the Mexican ... -
A Climatology of the Precipitation over the Southern Ocean as Observed at Macquarie Island
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)acquarie Island (54.50°S, 158.94°E) is an isolated island with modest orography in the midst of the Southern Ocean with precipitation records dating back to 1948. These records (referred to as MAC) are of particular interest ...