Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Identification of Long-Range Transported Haze Phenomena and Their Meteorological Features over Northeast Asia
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)his paper presents a technique used to empirically classify operationally defined ?haze? days in South Korea from 2000 to 2007 into long-range transported (LRT) and stagnant (STG) haze cases. A total of 547 haze days were ... -
Global Warming, El Niño, and High-Impact Storms at Extreme Altitude: Historical Trends and Consequences for Mountaineers
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he twentieth century was bracketed by two high-profile events on Mount Everest: the 1924 Mallory and Irvine disappearance and the 1996 Into Thin Air storm. During both events, fatalities occurred high on the mountain during ... -
Examining Trends in Satellite-Detected Tropical Overshooting Tops as a Potential Predictor of Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)geostationary satellite?derived cloud product that is based on a tropical-overshooting-top (TOT) detection algorithm is described for applications over tropical oceans. TOTs are identified using a modified version of a ... -
Roles of Urban Tree Canopy and Buildings in Urban Heat Island Effects: Parameterization and Preliminary Results
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)rban heat island (UHI) effects can strengthen heat waves and air pollution episodes. In this study, the dampening impact of urban trees on the UHI during an extreme heat wave in the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland, ... -
Seasonal and Interannual Variations of Evapotranspiration and Energy Exchange over Different Land Surfaces in a Semiarid Area of China
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)easonal and interannual variations of evapotranspiration (ET) and energy exchange were estimated over degraded grassland and cropland land surfaces in a semiarid region of northeastern China using the eddy covariance ... -
Two Improved Mixture Weibull Models for the Analysis of Wind Speed Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)n this paper, the authors propose two improved mixture Weibull distribution models by adding one or two location parameters to the existing two-component mixture two-parameter Weibull distribution [MWbl(2, 2)] model. One ... -
A Conceptual Model for the Identification of Active Red Sea Trough Synoptic Events over the Southeastern Mediterranean
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)phenomenon characterized by a tongue of low pressure extending northward from the southern Red Sea [Red Sea Trough (RST)] toward the eastern Mediterranean Sea (EM) is analyzed. In general, the RST is associated with hot ... -
Data Clustering Reveals Climate Impacts on Local Wind Phenomena
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he authors demonstrate the utility of k-means clustering for identifying relationships between winds at turbine heights and climate oscillations, thereby developing a method suited for predicting the impacts of climate ... -
Evaluating Statewide Climate Extremes for the United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he NOAA National Climatic Data Center maintains tables for temperature and precipitation extremes in each of the U.S. states. Many of these tables were several years out of date, however, and therefore did not include a ... -
Atmospheric and Fuel Moisture Characteristics Associated with Lightning-Attributed Fires
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)systematic examination is presented of the relationship between lightning occurrence and fires attributed to lightning ignitions. Lightning occurrence data are matched to a database of fires attributed to lightning ignition ... -
Retrieval of Cloud Properties Using CALIPSO Imaging Infrared Radiometer. Part I: Effective Emissivity and Optical Depth
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he paper describes the operational analysis of the Imaging Infrared Radiometer (IIR) data, which have been collected in the framework of the Cloud?Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) mission ... -
Characterization of Aircraft Icing Environments with Supercooled Large Drops for Application to Commercial Aircraft Certification
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)bservations of aircraft icing environments that included supercooled large drops (SLD) greater than 100 ?m in diameter have been analyzed. The observations were collected by instrumented research aircraft from 134 flights ... -
Probabilistic Risk Assessment of the Rice Cropping Schedule for Central Hokkaido, Japan
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)framework for the probabilistic risk assessment of the rice (Oryza sativa L.) cropping schedule (PRARCS) is presented. The method accounts for interannual meteorological variation, as opposed to the traditional cultivation ... -
Direct Radiative Effect of Mineral Dust on the Development of African Easterly Waves in Late Summer, 2003–07
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)pisodic events of both Saharan dust outbreaks and African easterly waves (AEWs) are observed to move westward over the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean. The relationship between the warm, dry, and dusty Saharan air layer ... -
High-Resolution Simulations of Lee Waves and Downslope Winds over the Sierra Nevada during T-REX IOP 6
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he downslope windstorm during intensive observation period (IOP) 6 was the most severe that was detected during the Terrain-Induced Rotor Experiment (T-REX) in Owens Valley in the Sierra Nevada of California. Cross sections ... -
Measurement and Statistical Modeling of the Urban Heat Island of the City of Utrecht (the Netherlands)
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)obile temperature and humidity measurements have been performed along a 14-km transect through the city of Utrecht, in the Netherlands (311 000 inhabitants), during the period March 2006?January 2009. The measurements took ... -
Trends in Wind Speed at Wind Turbine Height of 80 m over the Contiguous United States Using the North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR)
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he trends in wind speed at a typical wind turbine hub height (80 m) are analyzed using the North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) dataset for 1979?2009. A method, assuming the wind profile in the lower boundary layer ... -
Wind Speed Retrieval Based on Sea Surface Roughness Measurements from Spaceborne Microwave Radiometers
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)ind speed is the main factor responsible for the increase in ocean thermal emission because sea surface emissivity strongly depends on surface roughness. An alternative approach to estimate the surface wind speed (SWS) as ... -
Retrieval of Cloud Ice Water Path from Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS)
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) aboard the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program F-16 spacecraft measures the Earth-emitted radiation at frequencies from 19 to 183 GHz. From its high-frequency channels ... -
A Climatology of Nocturnal Warming Events Associated with Cold-Frontal Passages in Oklahoma
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)sudden increase in temperature during the nighttime hours accompanies the passages of some cold fronts. In some cold front?associated warming events, the temperature can rise by as much as 10°C and can last from a few ...