Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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On the Ability of the WRF Model to Reproduce the Surface Wind Direction over Complex Terrain
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he ability of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to reproduce the surface wind direction over complex terrain is examined. A simulation spanning a winter season at a high horizontal resolution of 2 km is ... -
Monthly Air Temperatures over Northern China Estimated by Integrating MODIS Data with GIS Techniques
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he Three-North Shelter/Protective Forest Programme (TNSFP), the largest ecological afforestation program in the world, was launched in 1978 and will last until 2050 to improve ecological conditions in the Three-North regions ... -
A Multisensor Perspective on the Radiative Impacts of Clouds and Aerosols
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he launch of CloudSat and Cloud?Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) in 2006 provided the first opportunity to incorporate information about the vertical distribution of cloud and aerosols ... -
Trends in Storm-Triggered Landslides over Southern California
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)hanges in storm-triggered landslide activity for Southern California in a future warming climate are estimated using an advanced, fully three-dimensional, process-based landslide model, the Scalable and Extensible Geofluid ... -
A Polygon-Based Line-Integral Method for Calculating Vorticity, Divergence, and Deformation from Nonuniform Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)raditional observational analysis of derivative-based variables (e.g., vorticity) usually relies on interpolating observations and evaluating spatial derivatives either on a Cartesian grid or on a spherical grid. Great ... -
A Large-Eddy Simulation Study of Bottom-Heating Effects on Scalar Dispersion in and above a Cubical Building Array
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)hermal effects on scalar dispersion in and above a cubical building array are numerically investigated using the parallelized large-eddy simulation model (PALM). Two cases (no heating and bottom heating) are simulated, and ... -
Impact of Low-Level Jets on the Nocturnal Urban Heat Island Intensity in Oklahoma City
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)revious analysis of Oklahoma City (OKC), Oklahoma, temperature data indicated that urban heat islands (UHIs) frequently formed at night and the observed UHI intensity was variable (1°?4°C). The current study focuses on ... -
Modeling the Downwelling Longwave Radiation over a Groomed Ski Run under Clear Skies
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he surface radiation budget of a groomed ski run is important to ski racing. Variables such as snow-surface temperature and liquid water content depend upon the surface radiation budget and are crucial to preparing fast ... -
Unified Formulation of Single- and Multimoment Normalizations of the Raindrop Size Distribution Based on the Gamma Probability Density Function
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)his study offers a unified formulation of single- and multimoment normalizations of the raindrop size distribution (DSD), which have been proposed in the framework of scaling analyses in the literature. The key point is ... -
ENSO Effect on East Asian Tropical Cyclone Landfall via Changes in Tracks and Genesis in a Statistical Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)mprovements on a statistical tropical cyclone (TC) track model in the western North Pacific Ocean are described. The goal of the model is to study the effect of El Niño?Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on East Asian TC landfall. ... -
Validation of Satellite-Derived Atmospheric Motion Vectors and Analyses around Tropical Disturbances
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)ields of atmospheric motion vectors (AMVs) are routinely derived by tracking features in sequential geostationary satellite infrared, water vapor, and visible-channel imagery. While AMVs produced operationally by global ... -
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The Generation of Turbulence below Midlevel Cloud Bases: The Effect of Cooling due to Sublimation of Snow
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)n the author?s experience as a forecaster, commercial aircraft sometimes report turbulence beneath midlevel clouds that extend above upper frontal zones. Turbulence caused by Kelvin?Helmholtz instability occurs in upper ... -
Evaluating Soil Water Content in a WRF-Noah Downscaling Experiment
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)oil water content (SWC) depends on and affects the energy flux partitioning at the land?atmosphere interface. Above all, the latent heat flux is limited by the SWC of the root zone on one hand and radiation on the other. ... -
A New Fuzzy Logic Hydrometeor Classification Scheme Applied to the French X-, C-, and S-Band Polarimetric Radars
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)new fuzzy logic hydrometeor classification algorithm is proposed that takes into account data-based membership functions, measurement conditions, and three-dimensional temperature information provided by a high-resolution ... -
Height Correction of Atmospheric Motion Vectors Using Airborne Lidar Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)ncertainties in the height assignment of atmospheric motion vectors (AMVs) are the main contributor to the total AMV wind error, and these uncertainties introduce errors that can be horizontally correlated over several ... -
Revealing the Winds under the Rain. Part I: Passive Microwave Rain Retrievals Using a New Observation-Based Parameterization of Subsatellite Rain Variability and Intensity—Algorithm Description
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)catterometer ocean surface winds have been providing very valuable information to researchers and operational weather forecasters for over 10 years. However, the scatterometer wind retrievals are compromised when rain is ... -
Climatic Variability of Near-Surface Turbulent Kinetic Energy over the United States: Implications for Fire-Weather Predictions
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)ecent research suggests that high levels of ambient near-surface atmospheric turbulence are often associated with rapid and sometimes erratic wildland fire spread that may eventually lead to large burn areas. Previous ... -
A Physically Based Identification of Vertical Profiles of Reflectivity from Volume Scan Radar Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he vertical profile of reflectivity (VPR) must be identified to correct estimations of rainfall rates by radar for the nonuniform beam filling associated with the vertical variation of radar reflectivity. A method for ... -
paNTICA: A Fast 3D Radiative Transfer Scheme to Calculate Surface Solar Irradiance for NWP and LES Models
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he resolution of numerical weather prediction models is constantly increasing, making it necessary to consider three-dimensional radiative transfer effects such as cloud shadows cast into neighboring grid cells and thus ...