Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Fine-Resolved, Near-Coastal Spatiotemporal Variation of Temperature in Response to Insolation
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)his study uses GIS-based modeling of incoming solar radiation to quantify fine-resolved spatiotemporal responses of monthly average temperature, and diurnal temperature variation, at different times and locations within a ... -
Effects of Synoptic-Scale Wind under the Typical Summer Pressure Pattern on the Mesoscale High-Temperature Events in the Osaka and Kyoto Urban Areas by the WRF Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he actual conditions of mesoscale summer high temperatures (HTs) recorded in the Osaka?Kyoto urban area of Japan were investigated using an observation network. The daytime temperatures observed on 10 HT events in this ... -
CO2 Snow Deposition in Antarctica to Curtail Anthropogenic Global Warming
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)scientific plan is presented that proposes the construction of carbon dioxide (CO2) deposition plants in the Antarctic for removing CO2 gas from Earth?s atmosphere. The Antarctic continent offers the best environment on ... -
On a Natural Environment for Glaciogenic Cloud Seeding
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)?climatology? of supercooled cloud tops is presented for southeastern Australia and the western United States, where historic glaciogenic cloud-seeding trials have been located. The climatology finds that supercooled cloud ... -
Cirrus Cloud Properties and the Large-Scale Meteorological Environment: Relationships Derived from A-Train and NCEP–NCAR Reanalysis Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)mpirical knowledge of how cirrus cloud properties are coupled with the large-scale meteorological environment is a prerequisite for understanding the role of microphysical processes in the life cycle of cirrus cloud systems. ... -
Investigation of the Effects of Different Land Use and Land Cover Patterns on Mesoscale Meteorological Simulations in the Taiwan Area
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) land use (LU) data employed in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model classify most LU types in Taiwan as mixtures of irrigated cropland and forest, which is not an accurate ... -
Impact of TRMM Data on a Low-Latency, High-Resolution Precipitation Algorithm for Flash-Flood Forecasting
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)ata from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) have made great contributions to hydrometeorology from both a science and an operations standpoint. However, direct application of TRMM data to short-fuse hydrologic ... -
Climate Variability and Trends in Bolivia
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)limate-related disasters in Bolivia are frequent, severe, and manifold and affect large parts of the population, economy, and ecosystems. Potentially amplified through climate change, natural hazards are of growing concern. ... -
Quantitative Analysis of Factors Contributing to Urban Heat Island Intensity
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)his study identifies causative factors of the urban heat island (UHI) and quantifies their relative contributions to the daytime and nighttime UHI intensities using a mesoscale atmospheric model that includes a single-layer ... -
Climate Change, High-Temperature Stress, Rice Productivity, and Water Use in Eastern China: A New Superensemble-Based Probabilistic Projection
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he impact of climate change on rice productivity in China remains highly uncertain because of uncertainties from climate change scenarios, parameterizations of biophysical processes, and extreme temperature stress in crop ... -
A Variational Approach for Retrieving Raindrop Size Distribution from Polarimetric Radar Measurements in the Presence of Attenuation
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)his study presents a two-dimensional variational approach to retrieving raindrop size distributions (DSDs) from polarimetric radar data in the presence of attenuation. A two-parameter DSD model, the constrained-gamma model, ... -
The Layered Structure of the Winter Atmospheric Boundary Layer in the Interior of Alaska
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he high-latitude winter atmospheric boundary layer of interior Alaska continually exhibits a complex layered structure as a result of extreme meteorological conditions. In this paper the occurrence of elevated inversions ... -
Performance of Recent Multimodel ENSO Forecasts
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he performance of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society ?ENSO forecast plume? during the 2002?11 period is evaluated using deterministic and probabilistic verification measures. The plume includes ... -
Rain-Rate Characteristics over the Korean Peninsula and Improvement of the Goddard Profiling (GPROF) Database for TMI Rainfall Retrievals
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)ummer rainfall characteristics over the Korean Peninsula are examined using six years of Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI) measurements and surface rain measurements from the densely populated ... -
A Statistical Forecast Model of Weather-Related Damage to a Major Electric Utility
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)generalized linear model (GLM) has been developed to relate meteorological conditions to damages incurred by the outdoor electrical equipment of Public Service Electric and Gas, the largest public utility in New Jersey. ... -
Recipes for Correcting the Impact of Effective Mesoscale Resolution on the Estimation of Extreme Winds
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)xtreme winds derived from simulations using mesoscale models are underestimated because of the effective spatial and temporal resolutions. This is reflected in the spectral domain as an energy deficit in the mesoscale ... -
Classification of Precipitation Types during Transitional Winter Weather Using the RUC Model and Polarimetric Radar Retrievals
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)new hydrometeor classification algorithm that combines thermodynamic output from the Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) model with polarimetric radar observations is introduced. The algorithm improves upon existing classification ... -
Nowcasting Rainfall Fields Derived from Specific Differential Phase
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)hort-term automated forecasting (nowcasting) of precipitation has traditionally been done using radar reflectivity data; recent research, however, indicates that using specific differential phase Kdp has several advantages ... -
Improving the Representation of Resolved and Unresolved Topographic Effects on Surface Wind in the WRF Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model presents a high surface wind speed bias over plains and valleys that constitutes a limitation for the increasing use of the model for several applications. This study attempts ... -
Leeside Boundary Layer Confluence and Afternoon Thunderstorms over Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he midsummer boundary layer (BL) circulation and afternoon thunderstorm convection on the lee side of Puerto Rico is studied using observations and high-resolution models. Satellite infrared data help to identify cases on ...