Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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High-Resolution Vertical Profiles of X-Band Polarimetric Radar Observables during Snowfall in the Swiss Alps
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)n X-band polarimetric radar was deployed in the eastern Swiss Alps at an altitude of 2133 m. Radar measurements were complemented with several weather stations deployed in an altitude range from 1500 to 3100 m as well as ... -
Daytime Local Circulations and Their Interactions in the Seoul Metropolitan Area
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)aytime local circulations and their interactions in the Seoul, South Korea, metropolitan area are investigated using a high-resolution mesoscale model. It is found that the urban-breeze circulation interacts strongly with ... -
Implementation of a Silver Iodide Cloud-Seeding Parameterization in WRF. Part II: 3D Simulations of Actual Seeding Events and Sensitivity Tests
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)our cloud-seeding cases over southern Idaho during the 2010/11 winter season have been simulated by the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model using the coupled silver iodide (AgI) cloud-seeding scheme that was ... -
Documenting Wind Speed and Power Deficits behind a Utility-Scale Wind Turbine
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)igh-spatial-and-temporal-resolution radial velocity measurements surrounding a single utility-scale wind turbine were collected using the Texas Tech University Ka-band mobile research radars. The measurements were synthesized ... -
Implementation of a Silver Iodide Cloud-Seeding Parameterization in WRF. Part I: Model Description and Idealized 2D Sensitivity Tests
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)silver iodide (AgI) cloud-seeding parameterization has been implemented into the Thompson microphysics scheme of the Weather Research and Forecasting model to investigate glaciogenic cloud-seeding effects. The sensitivity ... -
Airborne Radar Observations of Severe Hailstorms: Implications for Future Spaceborne Radar
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)new dual-frequency (Ku and Ka band) nadir-pointing Doppler radar on the high-altitude NASA ER-2 aircraft, called the High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (HIWRAP), has collected data over severe thunderstorms ... -
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Numerical Analysis on the Contribution of Urbanization to Wind Stilling: An Example over the Greater Beijing Metropolitan Area
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)decline of surface wind speed (wind stilling) has been observed in many regions of the world. The greater Beijing metropolitan area in China is taken as an example for analyzing the urbanization impact on wind stilling. ... -
Sensitivity of Ferry Services to the Western Isles of Scotland to Changes in Wave and Wind Climate
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he roughness of the seas is rarely mentioned as a major factor in the economic or social welfare of a region. In this study, the relationship between the ocean wave climate and the economy of the Western Isles of Scotland ... -
Ethiopian Highlands Crop-Climate Prediction: 1979–2009
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)his study compares different methods of predicting crop-related climate in the Ethiopian highlands for the period 1979?2009. A target index (ETH4) is developed as an average of four variables in the June?September ... -
Correction of Polarimetric Radar Reflectivity Measurements and Rainfall Estimates for Apparent Vertical Profile in Stratiform Rain
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)method for correcting the vertical profile of reflectivity measurements and rainfall estimates (VPR) in plan position indicator (PPI) scans of polarimetric weather radars in the melting layer and the snow layer during ... -
The Geospatial and Temporal Distributions of Severe Thunderstorms from High-Resolution Dynamical Downscaling
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)rends in severe thunderstorms and the associated phenomena of tornadoes, hail, and damaging winds have been difficult to determine because of the many uncertainties in the historical eyewitness-report-based record. The ... -
Toward an Operational Land Surface Temperature Algorithm for GOES
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)or most land surface temperature (LST) regression algorithms, a set of optimized coefficients is determined by manual separation of the different subdivisions of atmospheric and surface conditions. In this study, a ... -
Evaluating Linkages of Weather Patterns and Water Quality Responses in South Florida Using a Synoptic Climatological Approach
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)oastal ocean ecosystems are impacted by atmospheric conditions and events, including episodic severe systems such as hurricanes as well as more regular seasonal events. The complexity of the atmosphere?ocean relationship ... -
Improvement of Multimodel Ensemble Seasonal Prediction Skills over East Asian Summer Monsoon Region Using a Climate Filter Concept
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he authors propose the use of a ?climate filter? concept to enhance prediction skill of a multimodel ensemble (MME) suite for the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) precipitation and temperature at 850 hPa. The method envisages ... -
Assimilation of Infrared Radiances in the Context of Observing System Simulation Experiments
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) capability developed at Environment Canada allows simulation of all observation types currently used operationally as well as future data types. Its infrastructure, based ... -
Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Beijing Urban Heat Island Intensity
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)n hourly dataset of automatic weather stations over Beijing Municipality in China is developed and is employed to analyze the spatial and temporal characteristics of urban heat island intensity (UHII) over the built-up ... -
Small Cloud Particle Shapes in Mixed-Phase Clouds
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he shapes of cloud particles with maximum dimensions Dmax between 35 and 60 ?m in mixed-phase clouds were studied using high-resolution particle images collected by a cloud particle imager (CPI) during the Mixed-Phase ... -
Monitoring Drought Conditions and Their Uncertainties in Africa Using TRMM Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he main objective of this study is to evaluate the uncertainties due to sample size associated with the estimation of the standardized precipitation index (SPI) and their impact on the level of confidence in drought ... -
Indirect Assimilation of Radar Reflectivity with WRF 3D-Var and Its Impact on Prediction of Four Summertime Convective Events
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)n indirect radar reflectivity assimilation scheme has been developed within the Weather Research and Forecasting model three-dimensional data assimilation system (WRF 3D-Var). This scheme, instead of assimilating radar ...