Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Effects of Urbanization on the Temperature Inversion Breakup in a Mountain Valley with Implications for Air Quality
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)any cities located in valleys with limited ventilation experience serious air pollution problems. The ventilation of an urban valley can be limited not only by orographic barriers, but also by urban heat island?induced ... -
The Effect of Pollution Aerosol on Wintertime Orographic Precipitation in the Colorado Rockies Using a Simplified Emissions Scheme to Predict CCN Concentrations
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he impacts of enhanced CCN concentrations on various cloud and precipitation systems are potentially significant both to the large-scale climate system and local precipitation patterns. Precipitating stable orographic cloud ... -
An Optimized System for the Classification of Meteorological Drought Intensity with Applications in Drought Frequency Analysis
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he adequacy of meteorological drought intensity threshold levels based on deviations of monthly precipitation totals from normal climatological conditions is reconsidered. The motivation for this study is the observation ... -
Aircraft Observations of the Marine Boundary Layer Adjustment near Point Arguello, California
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)ortherly winds set up by synoptic conditions are persistent in the marine boundary layer (MBL) off the California coast from late spring through summer. Wind, pressure, and MBL height are modulated as the low-level flow ... -
Modeling the Impacts of a Man-Made Lake on the Meteorological Conditions of the Surrounding Areas
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he possible modifications of the surface meteorological conditions due to construction of a small, man-made lake in midlatitudes (surface area of 11.55 km2 and maximum fetch distance L ≈ 5 km) were investigated using the ... -
Comparison of Postprocessing Methods for the Calibration of 100-m Wind Ensemble Forecasts at Off- and Onshore Sites
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)nsemble forecasts are a valuable addition to deterministic wind forecasts since they allow the quantification of forecast uncertainties. To remove common deficiencies of ensemble forecasts such as biases and ensemble spread ... -
High-Latitude Atmospheric Motion Vectors from Composite Satellite Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)tmospheric motion vectors (AMVs) are derived from satellite-observed motions of clouds and water vapor features. They provide crucial information in regions void of conventional observations and contribute to forecaster ... -
Evaluation of Gamma Raindrop Size Distribution Assumption through Comparison of Rain Rates of Measured and Radar-Equivalent Gamma DSD
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)o date, one of the most widely used parametric forms for modeling raindrop size distribution (DSD) is the three-parameter gamma. The aim of this paper is to analyze the error of assuming such parametric form to model the ... -
On the Drag and Heat of Washington, D.C., and New York City
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)ata from a network of micrometeorological instruments, mostly mounted 10 m above the roofs of 12 buildings in Washington, D.C., are used to derive average values and spatial differences of the normalized local friction ... -
Climatology of Tropical System Rainfall in the Eastern Corn Belt
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)his study examines the frequency of daily rainfall totals greater than 2.54 cm (1 in.) averaged within a climate division (CD) associated with tropical systems that moved through the U.S. eastern Corn Belt region during ... -
Modeling and Interpretation of S-Band Ice Crystal Depolarization Signatures from Data Obtained by Simultaneously Transmitting Horizontally and Vertically Polarized Fields
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)ata collected by the National Center for Atmospheric Research S-band polarimetric radar (S-Pol) during the Terrain-Influenced Monsoon Rainfall Experiment (TiMREX) in Taiwan are analyzed and used to infer storm microphysics ... -
Wind-Climate Estimation Based on Mesoscale and Microscale Modeling: Statistical–Dynamical Downscaling for Wind Energy Applications
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)his paper demonstrates that a statistical?dynamical method can be used to accurately estimate the wind climate at a wind farm site. In particular, postprocessing of mesoscale model output allows an efficient calculation ... -
Influence of Soil Moisture on Urban Microclimate and Surface-Layer Meteorology in Oklahoma City
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he influence of soil moisture on the surface-layer atmosphere is examined in this paper by analyzing the outputs of model simulations for different initial soil moisture configurations, with particular emphasis on urban ... -
Wind Tunnel Experiment for Predicting a Visible Plume Region from a Nuclear Power Plant Cooling Tower
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)his paper introduces a wind tunnel experiment to study the effect of the cooling tower of a nuclear power plant on the flow and the characteristics of visible plume regions. The relevant characteristics of the flow field ... -
A 10-yr Climatology of Tibetan Plateau Vortices with NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)plateau vortex refers to a shallow meso-α-scale cyclonic vortex that is usually confined to near-surface levels (500 hPa) over the Tibetan Plateau during warm seasons. It is the major precipitation-producing weather system ... -
Evaluation of AIRS Cloud-Thermodynamic-Phase Determination with CALIPSO
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)tmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) infrared-based cloud-thermodynamic-phase retrievals are evaluated using the Cloud?Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) cloud thermodynamic phase. The ... -
Improving Satellite-Based Convective Cloud Growth Monitoring with Visible Optical Depth Retrievals
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he use of geostationary satellites for monitoring the development of deep convective clouds has been recently well documented. One such approach, the University of Wisconsin Cloud-Top Cooling Rate (CTC) algorithm, utilizes ... -
Evaluating the Accuracy of a High-Resolution Model Simulation through Comparison with MODIS Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)ynthetic infrared brightness temperatures (BTs) derived from a high-resolution Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model simulation over the contiguous United States are compared with Moderate Resolution Imaging ... -
Predictability of December–April Rainfall in Coastal and Andean Ecuador
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)n Ecuador, forecasts of seasonal total rainfall could mitigate both flooding and drought disasters through warning systems if issued at useful lead time. In Ecuador, rainfall from December to April contributes most of the ... -
Spatial Variability of the Hurst Exponent for the Daily Scale Rainfall Series in the State of Zacatecas, Mexico
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he structural pattern of rainfall data exhibits random fluctuations over time and space. Utilizing concepts of fractal theory, it has been possible to identify characteristics of rainfall data beyond simple statistical ...