Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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A Systematic Study of Longwave Radiative Heating and Cooling within Valleys and Basins Using a Three-Dimensional Radiative Transfer Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he Monte Carlo code for the physically correct tracing of photons in cloudy atmospheres (MYSTIC) three-dimensional radiative transfer model was used in a parametric study to determine the strength of longwave radiative ... -
Evaluation of TRMM Rain Estimates Using Ground Measurements over Central Florida
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)This study evaluates space-based rain estimates from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite using ground-based measurements from the radar (GR) and tipping-bucket rain gauges (TG) over the TRMM Ground ... -
Using the WRF Model in an Operational Streamflow Forecast System for the Jordan River
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model was employed to provide precipitation forecasts during the 2008/09 and 2009/10 winters (wet season) for Israel and the surrounding region where complex terrain dominates. The ... -
Meteorological Conditions at Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park: Implications for Rock Production and Transport
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)hree decades of weather records at meteorological stations near Death Valley National Park are analyzed in an attempt to gauge the frequency of conditions that might form and erase the famous trails of wind-blown rocks in ... -
Retrieval of Ice Cloud Optical Thickness and Effective Particle Size Using a Fast Infrared Radiative Transfer Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)computationally efficient radiative transfer model (RTM) is developed for the inference of ice cloud optical thickness and effective particle size from satellite-based infrared (IR) measurements and is aimed at potential ... -
Radar Scattering from Ice Aggregates Using the Horizontally Aligned Oblate Spheroid Approximation
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he assumed relationship between ice particle mass and size is profoundly important in radar retrievals of ice clouds, but, for millimeter-wave radars, shape and preferred orientation are important as well. In this paper ... -
A New Statistical–Dynamical Downscaling Procedure Based on EOF Analysis for Regional Time Series Generation
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)new statistical?dynamical downscaling procedure is developed and then applied to high-resolution (regional) time series generation and wind resource assessment. The statistical module of the new procedure uses empirical ... -
An Investigation of the Short-Term Predictability of Precipitation Using High-Resolution Composite Radar Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he short-term predictability of precipitation patterns observed by meteorological radar is an important concept as it establishes a means to characterize precipitation and provides an upper limit on the extent of useful ... -
Can Surface-Cover Tiles Be Summed to Give Neighborhood Fluxes in Cities?
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he paper addresses the question of whether the modeling practice of summing separate land-cover tiles to give urban fluxes at the neighborhood scale has merit. A central-city site in Basel, Switzerland, was instrumented ... -
Spatial Superposition Method via Model Coupling for Urban Heat Island Albedo Mitigation Strategies
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)spatial superposition design is presented that couples the fifth-generation Pennsylvania State University?National Center for Atmospheric Research Mesoscale Model (MM5) with the National Center of Excellence (NCE) lumped ... -
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(American Meteorological Society, 2011)reexamination of the wind hazard from tropical cyclones for the city of Darwin (Northern Territory), Australia, by Cook and Nicholls concluded that its wind hazard is substantially underestimated by its allocation to region ... -
A Climatology of Disdrometer Measurements of Rainfall in Finland over Five Years with Implications for Global Radar Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)o improve the understanding of high-latitude rain microphysics and its implications for the remote sensing of rainfall by ground-based and spaceborne radars, raindrop size measurements have been analyzed that were collected ... -
Characteristics of the Near-Surface Boundary Layer within a Mountain Valley during Winter
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)ithin mountainous regions, estimating the exchange of sensible heat and water vapor between the surface and the atmosphere is an important but inexact endeavor. Measurements of the turbulence characteristics of the ... -
Tornadic Supercell Environments Analyzed Using Surface and Reanalysis Data: A Spatiotemporal Relational Data-Mining Approach
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)klahoma Mesonet surface data and North American Regional Reanalysis data were integrated with the tracks of over 900 tornadic and nontornadic supercell thunderstorms in Oklahoma from 1994 to 2003 to observe the evolution ... -
Trends in Extreme Apparent Temperatures over the United States, 1949–2010
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)iometeorological indices, such as the apparent temperature, are widely used in studies of heat-related mortality to quantify the human sensation to the environmental conditions. Increases in the frequency of environmentally ... -
Prediction of In-Cloud Icing Conditions at Ground Level Using the WRF Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)n-cloud icing on aircraft and ground structures can be observed every winter in many countries. In extreme cases ice can cause accidents and damage to infrastructure such as power transmission lines, telecommunication ... -
Regional Variability within Global-Scale Relations between Passive Microwave Signatures and Raining Clouds over the Tropical Oceans
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)mpirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis of radiance vectors associated with emission and scattering indices for the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI) has been performed to examine the ... -
Polarimetric Radar–Based Estimates of Spatial Variability in Characteristic Sizes of Raindrops in Stratiform Rainfall
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)olarimetric X-band radar measurements of differential reflectivity ZDR in stratiform rainfall were used for retrieving mean mass-weighted raindrop diameters Dm and estimating their spatial variability δDm at different ... -
Estimating Climatological Bias Errors for the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP)
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)procedure is described to estimate bias errors for mean precipitation by using multiple estimates from different algorithms, satellite sources, and merged products. The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) monthly ... -
Quantification of Monthly Mean Regional-Scale Albedo of Marine Stratiform Clouds in Satellite Observations and GCMs
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)lanetary albedo?the reflectivity for solar radiation?is of singular importance in determining the amount of solar energy taken in by the Earth?atmosphere system. Modeling albedo, and specifically cloud albedo, correctly ...