Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Statistics of Storm Updraft Velocities from TWP-ICE Including Verification with Profiling Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)omparisons between direct measurements and modeled values of vertical air motions in precipitating systems are complicated by differences in temporal and spatial scales. On one hand, vertically profiling radars more directly ... -
WRF-Fire: Coupled Weather–Wildland Fire Modeling with the Weather Research and Forecasting Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)wildland fire-behavior module, named WRF-Fire, was integrated into the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) public domain numerical weather prediction model. The fire module is a surface fire-behavior model that is two-way ... -
Observations of Thermally Driven Wind Jets at the Exit of Weber Canyon, Utah
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)hermally driven valley-exit jets were investigated at Utah?s Weber Canyon, a main tributary of the Great Salt Lake basin. An intensive measurement campaign during July?September 2010 supplemented longer-term measurements ... -
Likely Ranges of Climate Change in Bolivia
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)olivia is facing numerous climate-related threats, ranging from water scarcity due to rapidly retreating glaciers in the Andes to a partial loss of the Amazon forest in the lowlands. To assess what changes in climate may ... -
Turbulence and Radiation in Stratocumulus-Topped Marine Boundary Layers: A Case Study from VOCALS-REx
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)bservations made during a 24-h period as part of the Variability of the American Monsoon Systems (VAMOS) Ocean?Cloud?Atmosphere?Land Study Regional Experiment (VOCALS-REx) are analyzed to study the radiation and turbulence ... -
IR Radiation from Trees to a Ski Run: A Case Study
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)ccurately calculating the surface radiation budget of a groomed ski run is crucial when determining snow surface temperature and other snow-related variables, knowledge of which is important for ski racing. Downwelling ... -
A Downscaled Wind Climatology on the Outer Continental Shelf
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)31-yr time series of boundary layer winds has been developed for a region on the outer continental shelf. This simulated time series was designed to be suitable to study the wind resources for a potential offshore wind ... -
Influences of Sea Surface Temperature Gradients and Surface Roughness Changes on the Motion of Surface Oil: A Simple Idealized Study
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he authors' modeling shows that changes in sea surface temperature (SST) gradients and surface roughness between oil-free water and oil slicks influence the motion of the slick. Physically significant changes occur in ... -
Reply to “Comments on ‘Characterization of Aircraft Icing Environments with Supercooled Large Drops for Application to Commercial Aircraft Certification'”
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Implementation of an Urban Parameterization Scheme into the Regional Climate Model COSMO-CLM
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)s the nonhydrostatic regional model of the Consortium for Small-Scale Modelling in Climate Mode (COSMO-CLM) is increasingly employed for studying the effects of urbanization on the environment, the authors extend its ... -
A Case Study of the Upwind Urbanization Influence on the Urban Heat Island Effects along the Suzhou–Wuxi Corridor
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he urban heat island (UHI) effect is one of the most significant phenomena caused by urbanization. This study investigated the UHI effect in the Suzhou?Wuxi area, China, on 19?20 August 2010. Using a combination of ... -
Evidence of Very Shallow Summertime Katabatic Flows in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he three-axis ?Latan-3? Doppler sodar was operated near the Finnish Antarctic station Aboa in Dronning Maud Land (73.04°S, 13.40°W) in the austral summer of 2010/11. The measuring site is located at a practically flat, ... -
Analysis of Tornado-Induced Tree Fall Using Aerial Photography from the Joplin, Missouri, and Tuscaloosa–Birmingham, Alabama, Tornadoes of 2011
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)n this study, aerial imagery of tornado damage is used to digitize the falling direction of trees (i.e., tree fall) along the 22 May 2011 Joplin, Missouri, and 27 April 2011 Tuscaloosa?Birmingham, Alabama, tornado tracks. ... -
Analysis of WRF Model Wind Estimate Sensitivity to Physics Parameterization Choice and Terrain Representation in Andalusia (Southern Spain)
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)his paper reports on an evaluation of the relative roles of choice of parameterization scheme and terrain representation in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) mesoscale model, in the context of a regional wind ... -
Retrieval of Ice Cloud Properties from AIRS and MODIS Observations Based on a Fast High-Spectral-Resolution Radiative Transfer Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)computationally efficient high-spectral-resolution cloudy-sky radiative transfer model (HRTM) in the thermal infrared region (700?1300 cm?1, 0.1 cm?1 spectral resolution) is advanced for simulating the upwelling radiance ... -
Effects of Synoptic-Scale Control on Long-Term Declining Trends of Summer Fog Frequency over the Pacific Side of Hokkaido Island
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)n this study, long-term visibility data for the Pacific Ocean side of Hokkaido Island, northeast Japan, are investigated to clarify the relationship between interannual variation in summer fog frequency (FF) and large-scale ... -
The Urban Heat Island of the North-Central Texas Region and Its Relation to the 2011 Severe Texas Drought
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)ourly surface temperature differences between Dallas?Fort Worth, Texas, metropolitan and rural sites have been used to calculate the urban heat island from 2001 to 2011. The heat island peaked after sunset and was particularly ... -
Calibration and Validation of the Integrated Biosphere Simulator (IBIS) for a Brazilian Semiarid Region
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he reliability of predictions from climate and weather models is linked to an adequate representation of the land surface processes. To evaluate performance and to improve predictions, land surface models are calibrated ... -
The Dependence of QPF on the Choice of Microphysical Parameterization for Lake-Effect Snowstorms
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)everal lake-effect-snow forecasts are compared to assess how the choice of microphysical parameterization affects quantitative precipitation forecasting (QPF). Eight different schemes, with different numbers of moments and ... -
Aerosol Impacts on the Microphysical Growth Processes of Orographic Snowfall
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he Regional Atmospheric Modeling System was used to simulate four winter snowfall events over the Park Range of Colorado. For each event, three hygroscopic aerosol sensitivity simulations were performed with initial aerosol ...