Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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A Comparison of Three Prolonged Periods of Heavy Rainfall over the Hawaiian Islands
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he anomalous circulation patterns during an unusually prolonged stormy-weather period in Hawaii from 19 February to 2 April 2006 are analyzed and are compared with those of two previously known prolonged heavy-rainfall ... -
Quality of Mobile Air Temperature and Atmospheric Pressure Observations from the 2010 Development Test Environment Experiment
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he 2010 Development Test Environment Experiment (DTE10) took place from 28 January to 29 March 2010 in the Detroit, Michigan, metropolitan area for the purposes of collecting and evaluating mobile data from vehicles. To ... -
The Variational Bayesian Approach to Fitting Mixture Models to Circular Wave Direction Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he emerging variational Bayesian (VB) technique for approximate Bayesian statistical inference is a non-simulation-based and time-efficient approach. It provides a useful, practical alternative to other Bayesian statistical ... -
Using Random Effects to Build Impact Models When the Available Historical Record Is Short
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he analysis of the affect of weather and climate on human activities requires the construction of impact models that are able to describe the complex links between weather and socioeconomic data. In practice, one of the ... -
An Investigation into the Spatial Variability of Near-Surface Air Temperatures in the Detroit, Michigan, Metropolitan Region
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)n an annual basis, heat is the chief cause of weather-related deaths in the United States. Therefore, understanding the temperature structure where people live is important for reducing the health burden imposed by hot ... -
Microscale Numerical Prediction over Montreal with the Canadian External Urban Modeling System
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he Canadian urban and land surface external modeling system (known as urban GEM-SURF) has been developed to provide surface and near-surface meteorological variables to improve numerical weather prediction and to become a ... -
Simulated Tornadic Vortex Signatures of Tornado-Like Vortices Having One- and Two-Celled Structures
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)tornadic vortex signature (TVS) is a degraded Doppler velocity signature that occurs when the tangential velocity core region of a tornado is smaller than the effective beamwidth of a sampling Doppler radar. Early Doppler ... -
A Short-Term Ensemble Wind Speed Forecasting System for Wind Power Applications
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)his study develops an adaptive, blended forecasting system to provide accurate wind speed forecasts 1 h ahead of time for wind power applications. The system consists of an ensemble of 21 forecasts with different configurations ... -
Analysis of Water Vapor over Nigeria Using Radiosonde and Satellite Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring (CM-SAF) focuses on retrieving geophysical parameters from satellite data by using inversion schemes that are based on radiative transfer theory. In this study, the ... -
Effects of Initial and Boundary Conditions of Mesoscale Models on Simulated Atmospheric Refractivity
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)adar ducting is caused by sharp vertical changes in temperature and, especially, water vapor at the top of the atmospheric boundary layer, both of which are sensitive to variations in the underlying surface conditions, ... -
Reconstruction of a Daily Large-Pan Evaporation Dataset over China
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)and surface evaporation is an important component of the earth?s surface hydrological cycle, as well as in the atmospheric energy and water balances. In China, different instruments have been used over time to measure ... -
Raindrop Size Distribution and Radar Parameters in Coastal Tropical Rain Systems of Northeastern Brazil
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)dataset on raindrop size distribution (DSD) gathered in a coastal site of the Alagoas state in northeastern Brazil is used to analyze some differences between continental and maritime rainfall parameters. The dataset is ... -
Spatial Heterogeneity of Air–Sea Energy Fluxes over a Coral Reef—Heron Reef, Australia
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he thermal environment of a coral reef is moderated by complex interactions of air?sea heat and moisture fluxes, local to synoptic-scale weather and reef hydrodynamics. Measurements of air?sea energy fluxes over coral reefs ... -
A Relationship between Reflectivity and Snow Rate for a High-Altitude S-Band Radar
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)n important application of radar reflectivity measurements is their interpretation as precipitation intensity. Empirical relationships exist for converting microwave backscatter retrieved from precipitation particles ... -
Dependence of Snow Gauge Collection Efficiency on Snowflake Characteristics
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)ccurate snowfall measurements are critical for a wide variety of research fields, including snowpack monitoring, climate variability, and hydrological applications. It has been recognized that systematic errors in snowfall ... -
A Dynamic Method for Gap Filling in Daily Temperature Datasets
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)regression-based approach for temperature data reconstruction has been used to fill the gaps in the series of automatic temperature records obtained from the meteorological network of Veneto Region (northeastern Italy). ... -
Hurricane Clusters in the Vicinity of Florida
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)odels that predict annual U.S. hurricane activity assume a Poisson distribution for the counts. Here the authors show that this assumption applied to Florida hurricanes leads to a forecast that underpredicts both the number ... -
Seasonal Variations of the Urban Heat Island at the Surface and the Near-Surface and Reductions due to Urban Vegetation in Mexico City
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he contrast of vegetation cover in urban and surrounding areas modulates the magnitude of the urban heat island (UHI). This paper examines the seasonal variations of the UHI using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ... -
Implementation of the Daytime Cloud Optical and Microphysical Properties Algorithm (DCOMP) in PATMOS-x
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)his paper describes the daytime cloud optical and microphysical properties (DCOMP) retrieval for the Pathfinder Atmosphere?s Extended (PATMOS-x) climate dataset. Within PATMOS-x, DCOMP is applied to observations from the ... -
Airborne Doppler Lidar Measurements of Valley Flows in Complex Coastal Terrain
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)hree-dimensional winds obtained with an airborne Doppler lidar are used to investigate the spatial structure of topographically driven flows in complex coastal terrain in Southern California. The airborne Doppler lidar ...