Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Atmospheric Motion Vectors from Model Simulations. Part II: Interpretation as Spatial and Vertical Averages of Wind and Role of Clouds
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)his is the second part of a two-part paper whose main objective is to improve the characterization of atmospheric motion vectors (AMVs) and their errors to guide developments in the use of AMVs in numerical weather prediction ... -
Evolution of Severe and Nonsevere Convection Inferred from GOES-Derived Cloud Properties
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)eostationary satellites [e.g., the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)] provide high temporal resolution of cloud development and motion, which is essential to the study of many mesoscale phenomena, ... -
Modeling Wet Snow Accretion on Power Lines: Improvements to Previous Methods Using 50 Years of Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)ethods to model wet snow accretion on structures are developed and improved, based on unique records of wet snow icing events as well as large datasets of observed and simulated weather. Hundreds of observed wet snow icing ... -
A Study on the Effect of Nudging on Long-Term Boundary Layer Profiles of Wind and Weibull Distribution Parameters in a Rural Coastal Area
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)y use of 1 yr of measurements performed with a wind lidar up to 600-m height, in combination with a tall meteorological tower, the impact of nudging on the simulated wind profile at a flat coastal site (H?vs?re) in western ... -
Intense Summer Heat in Tokyo and Its Suburban Areas Related with Variation in the Synoptic-Scale Pressure Field: A Statistical Analysis
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)ntense summer heat in Tokyo, Japan, and its suburban areas between 1990 and 2010 was statistically analyzed. Sample days were selected from among days with a sea breeze and sufficient sunshine duration, because sea breeze ... -
Will Future Climate Favor More Erratic Wildfires in the Western United States?
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)ildfires that occurred over the western United States during August 2012 were fewer in number but larger in size when compared with all other Augusts in the twenty-first century. This unique characteristic, along with the ... -
A Case Study of Nearshore Drag Coefficient Behavior during Hurricane Ike (2008)
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)ver the past decade, numerous field campaigns and laboratory experiments have examined air?sea momentum exchange in the deep ocean. These studies have changed the understanding of drag coefficient behavior in hurricane ... -
A 6-yr Climatology of Fronts Affecting Helsinki, Finland, and Their Boundary Layer Structure
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)6-yr climatology of the frequency, characteristics, and boundary layer structure of synoptic-scale fronts in Helsinki, Finland, was created using significant weather charts and observations from a 327-m-tall mast and from ... -
Toward the Assimilation of the Atmospheric Surface Layer Using Numerical Weather Prediction and Radar Clutter Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)adio wave propagation on low-altitude paths over the ocean above 2 GHz is significantly affected by negative refractivity gradients in the atmospheric surface layer, which form what is often referred to as an evaporation ... -
Retrieval of Cloud Properties Using CALIPSO Imaging Infrared Radiometer. Part II: Effective Diameter and Ice Water Path
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)his paper describes the version-3 level-2 operational analysis of the Imaging Infrared Radiometer (IIR) data collected in the framework of the Cloud?Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) ... -
Real-Time Track Prediction of Tropical Cyclones over the North Indian Ocean Using the ARW Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he performance of the Advanced Research version of the Weather Research and Forecasting (ARW) model in real-time prediction of tropical cyclones (TCs) over the north Indian Ocean (NIO) at 27-km resolution is evaluated on ... -
Developments in the CSU-RAMS Aerosol Model: Emissions, Nucleation, Regeneration, Deposition, and Radiation
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he Colorado State University (CSU) Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) has undergone development focused on improving the treatment of aerosols in the microphysics model, with the goal of examining the impacts of ... -
An Initialization Scheme for Tropical Cyclone Numerical Prediction by Enhancing Humidity in Deep-Convection Region
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)nudging scheme for humidity fields is implemented in the Advanced Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) for tropical cyclone (TC) initialization. The scheme improves TC simulation by enhancing the TC ... -
A Dual-Polarization Radar Signature of Hydrometeor Refreezing in Winter Storms
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)olarimetric radar measurements in winter storms that produce ice pellets have revealed a unique signature that is indicative of ongoing hydrometeor refreezing. This refreezing signature is observed within the low-level ... -
Wind Regimes Associated with a Mountain Gap at the Northeastern Adriatic Coast
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)inds through the Vratnik Pass, a mountain gap in the Dinaric Alps, Croatia, are polarized along the gap axis that extends in the northeast?southwest direction. Although stronger northeasterly wind at the Vratnik Pass is ... -
Skillful Seasonal Predictions of Boreal Winter Accumulated Heating Degree-Days and Relevance for the Weather Derivative Market
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)t is demonstrated that boreal winter accumulated heating degree-days, a weather derivative product that is frequently demanded by energy suppliers (among others), can be skillfully predicted with a lead time of 1 month, ... -
Assessment of Dynamical Downscaling in Near-Surface Fields with Different Spectral Nudging Approaches Using the Nested Regional Climate Model (NRCM)
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)ynamic downscaling with regional-scale climate models is used widely for increasing the spatial resolution of global-scale climate model projections. One uncertainty in generating these projections is the choice of boundary ... -
Stratocumulus-Topped Marine Boundary Layer Processes Revealed by the Absence of Profiler Reflectivity
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)tratocumulus (Sc) clouds occur frequently over the cold waters of the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Data collected during two Pan American Climate Study research cruises in the tropical eastern Pacific illuminate many aspects ... -
A Uniform Space–Time Gridding Algorithm for Comparison of Satellite Data Products: Characterization and Sensitivity Study
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)o overcome the complexities associated with combining or comparing multisensor data, a statistical gridding algorithm is introduced for projecting data from their unique instrument domain to a uniform space?time domain. ... -
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