Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Creating Synthetic Wind Speed Time Series for 15 New Zealand Wind Farms
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)ind data at time scales from 10 min to 1 h are an important input for modeling the performance of wind farms and their impact on many countries? national electricity systems. Planners need long-term realistic (i.e., ... -
A Statistical Framework to Identify the Influence of Large-Scale Weather Events on Regional Air Pollution
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)egional air pollution episodes occur as a result of increased emissions and prevalence of conducive meteorological conditions. The frequency of occurrence of such favorable conditions on a regional scale may be influenced ... -
A New Single-Layer Urban Canopy Model for Use in Mesoscale Atmospheric Models
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)new single-layer urban canopy model for use in mesoscale atmospheric models is developed and validated. The urban canopy model represents a built-up area as a street canyon, two facing buildings, and a road. In this model, ... -
A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Historical Droughts in Korea
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he climatological characteristics of drought in South Korea were investigated using daily precipitation data for 1777?2008. The effective drought index was used to quantify the drought intensity. As a result, five ... -
A TRMM-Based Tropical Cyclone Cloud and Precipitation Feature Database
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite has provided invaluable data for tropical cyclone (TC) research since December 1997. The challenge, however, is how to analyze and efficiently utilize all of the ... -
Annual Cycle of Surface Longwave Radiation
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he annual cycles of upward and downward longwave fluxes at the earth?s surface are investigated by use of the NASA Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Surface Radiation Budget Dataset. Principal component ... -
Estimating Contemporary and Future Wind-Damage Losses from Hurricanes Affecting Eglin Air Force Base, Florida
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he strongest hurricanes over the North Atlantic Ocean are getting stronger, with the increase related to rising ocean temperature. Here, the authors develop a procedure for estimating future wind losses from hurricanes and ... -
A Confirmatory Snowfall Enhancement Project in the Snowy Mountains of Australia. Part I: Project Design and Response Variables
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he Snowy Precipitation Enhancement Research Project (SPERP) was undertaken from May 2005 to June 2009 in the Snowy Mountains of southeastern Australia with the aim of enhancing snowfall in westerly flows associated with ... -
A Confirmatory Snowfall Enhancement Project in the Snowy Mountains of Australia. Part II: Primary and Associated Analyses
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he Snowy Precipitation Enhancement Research Project (SPERP) was undertaken in winters from May 2005 to June 2009 in the Snowy Mountains region of southeastern Australia. Part I of this paper describes the design and ... -
Evaluating Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model Predictions of Turbulent Flow Parameters in a Dry Convective Boundary Layer
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)eather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model predictions using different boundary layer schemes and horizontal grid spacings were compared with observational and numerical large-eddy simulation data for conditions corresponding ... -
A Robust Dual-Frequency Radar Profiling Algorithm
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)n this study, an algorithm to retrieve precipitation from spaceborne dual-frequency (13.8 and 35.6 GHz, or Ku/Ka band) radar observations is formulated and investigated. Such algorithms will be of paramount importance in ... -
A Comparison among Four Different Retrieval Methods for Ice-Cloud Properties Using Data from CloudSat, CALIPSO, and MODIS
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he A-Train constellation of satellites provides a new capability to measure vertical cloud profiles that leads to more detailed information on ice-cloud microphysical properties than has been possible up to now. A variational ... -
Understanding Radar Refractivity: Sources of Uncertainty
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)his study presents a 2-yr-long comparison of Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) refractivity retrievals with Oklahoma Mesonetwork (?Mesonet?) and sounding measurements and discusses some challenges to ... -
Application of Cluster Analysis to Climate Model Performance Metrics
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he overall performance of general circulation models is often investigated on the basis of the synthesis of a number of scalar performance metrics of individual models that measure the reproducibility of diverse aspects ... -
A Method for Forecasting Cloud Condensation Nuclei Using Predictions of Aerosol Physical and Chemical Properties from WRF/Chem
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)odel investigations of aerosol?cloud interactions across spatial scales are necessary to advance basic understanding of aerosol impacts on climate and the hydrological cycle. Yet these interactions are complex, involving ... -
Simulations of Contrail Optical Properties and Radiative Forcing for Various Crystal Shapes
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he aim of this study is to investigate the sensitivity of radiative-forcing computations to various contrail crystal shape models. Contrail optical properties in the shortwave and longwave ranges are derived using a ... -
Micrometeorological Modeling of Radiative and Convective Effects with a Building-Resolving Code
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)n many micrometeorological studies with computational fluid dynamics, building-resolving models usually assume a neutral atmosphere. Nevertheless, urban radiative transfers play an important role because of their influence ... -
Radar Anomalous Propagation Associated with Foehn Winds Induced by Typhoon Krosa (2007)
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)n this study, unusual radar anomalous propagation (AP) phenomena associated with foehn winds induced by Typhoon Krosa (2007) were documented by using observations from radar, surface stations, and soundings. The AP echoes ... -
Cross Validation of Spaceborne Radar and Ground Polarimetric Radar Aided by Polarimetric Echo Classification of Hydrometeor Types
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)round-based polarimetric weather radar is arguably the most powerful validation tool that provides physical insight into the development and interpretation of spaceborne weather radar algorithms and observations. This study ... -
SPLIDHOM: A Method for Homogenization of Daily Temperature Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)ne major concern of climate change is the possible rise of temperature extreme events, in terms of occurrence and intensity. To study this phenomenon, reliable daily series are required, for instance to compute daily-based ...