Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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MODIS Cloud-Top Property Refinements for Collection 6
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)his paper summarizes the Collection-6 refinements in the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) operational cloud-top properties algorithm. The focus is on calibration improvements and on cloud macrophysical ... -
U.K. Rainfall Data: A Long-Term Persistence Approach
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)his paper looks at the analysis of U.K. monthly rainfall data from a long-term persistence viewpoint. Different modeling approaches are considered, taking into account the strong dependence and the seasonality in the data. ... -
In Situ Aircraft Measurements of the Vertical Distribution of Liquid and Ice Water Content in Midlatitude Mixed-Phase Clouds
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he vertical distribution of liquid and ice water content and their partitioning is studied using 34 cases of in situ measured microphysical properties in midlatitude mixed-phase clouds, with liquid water path ranging from ... -
A Naive Bayesian Cloud-Detection Scheme Derived from CALIPSO and Applied within PATMOS-x
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he naive Bayesian methodology has been applied to the challenging problem of cloud detection with NOAA?s Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). An analysis of collocated NOAA-18/AVHRR and Cloud?Aerosol Lidar and ... -
Prospects for Dynamical Prediction of Meteorological Drought
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he prospects for U.S. seasonal drought prediction are assessed by diagnosing simulation and hindcast skill of drought indicators during 1982?2008. The 6-month standardized precipitation index is used as the primary drought ... -
A Characterization of the Variation in Relative Humidity across West Africa during the Dry Season
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he variation of relative humidity across West Africa during the dry season is evaluated using the Modern Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) dataset and the method of self-organizing maps. ... -
Wind Rose Bias Correction
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)ind rose summaries, which provide a basis for understanding and evaluating the climatological behavior of local wind, have a directional bias if a conventional method is used in their generation. Three techniques used to ... -
High Horizontal and Vertical Resolution Limited-Area Model: Near-Surface and Wind Energy Forecast Applications
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)s harvesting of wind energy grows, so does the need for improved forecasts from the surface to the top of wind turbines. To improve mesoscale forecasts of wind, temperature, and dewpoint temperature in this layer, two ... -
A Regional Climatography of West Nile, Uganda, to Support Human Plague Modeling
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he West Nile region in northwestern Uganda is a focal point for human plague, which peaks in boreal autumn and is spread by fleas that travel on rodent hosts. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is collaborating ... -
Impact of Enhanced Satellite-Derived Atmospheric Motion Vector Observations on Numerical Tropical Cyclone Track Forecasts in the Western North Pacific during TPARC/TCS-08
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)nhanced atmospheric motion vectors (AMVs) produced from the geostationary Multifunctional Transport Satellite (MTSAT) are assimilated into the U.S. Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS) to evaluate ... -
Measurements of Enhanced Turbulent Mixing near Highways
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)n August and September of 2010, measurements of turbulent fluxes and turbulent kinetic energy were made on highways in the Toronto area (Ontario, Canada). In situ turbulence measurements were made with a mobile laboratory ... -
Analysis of Spatiotemporal Balancing between Wind and Solar Energy Resources in the Southern Iberian Peninsula
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)lectricity from wind and, to a lesser extent, solar energy is intermittent and not controllable. Unlike conventional power generation, therefore, this electricity is not suitable to supply base-load electric power. In the ... -
Assessment of Regional Climate Change and Development of Climate Adaptation Decision Aids in the Southwestern United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)ver the next 10?50 years, policy makers in the southwestern United States are faced with complex planning and policy issues associated with increasing water and energy demand as a result of warmer temperatures and reduced ... -
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A Large-Eddy Simulation Study of Thermal Effects on Turbulent Flow and Dispersion in and above a Street Canyon
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)hermal effects on turbulent flow and dispersion in and above an idealized street canyon with a street aspect ratio of 1 are numerically investigated using the parallelized large-eddy simulation model (?PALM?). Each of ... -
The Thermally Driven Cross-Basin Circulation in Idealized Basins under Varying Wind Conditions
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he Weather Research and Forecasting model is used to perform large-eddy simulations of thermally driven cross-basin winds in idealized, closed basins. A spatially and temporally varying heat flux is prescribed at the surface ... -
Katabatic Flows and Their Relation to the Formation of Convective Clouds—Idealized Case Studies
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he formation of a convective cloud system as a result of a katabatic-induced surface cold front at the eastern Andes Mountains of South America was investigated in a numerical model study. The occurrence of this cloud ... -
Influence of the Subgrid Variability of the Raindrop Size Distribution on Radar Rainfall Estimators
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)his work aims at quantifying the variability of the parameters of the power laws used for rain-rate estimation from radar data, on the basis of raindrop size distribution measurements over a typical weather radar pixel. ... -
An Estimate of Structural Uncertainty in QuikSCAT Wind Vector Retrievals
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)ifferences between Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) level-2b wind vectors from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL; the Direction Interval Retrieval with Thresholded Nudging (DIRTH) product] and from the Remote Sensing Systems ... -
A High-Resolution Simulation of the Year 2003 for Germany Using the Regional Model COSMO
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)n this article, the authors examine the effect of a high-resolution grid (grid resolution lower than 3 km) in the context of a realistic climate simulation. For this purpose global simulation results of the German Weather ...