Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Trends in Precipitable Water and Relative Humidity in China: 1979–2005
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)nnual and seasonal trends of precipitable water (PW) and relative humidity (RH) at 850, 700, and 500 hPa are studied using the data from 106 radiosonde stations over China during the period 1979?2005. Analysis shows evidence ... -
The Simulation of the Southern Great Plains Nocturnal Boundary Layer and the Low-Level Jet with a High-Resolution Mesoscale Atmospheric Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)field project over the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement?Cloud and Radiation Test Bed (ARM?CART) site during a period of several nights in September 2007 was conducted to explore the evolution of the low-level jet (LLJ). ... -
Winter Precipitation Microphysics Characterized by Polarimetric Radar and Video Disdrometer Observations in Central Oklahoma
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he study of precipitation in different phases is important to understanding the physical processes that occur in storms, as well as to improving their representation in numerical weather prediction models. A 2D video ... -
Statistical Reliability of Neighboring Range Bin Estimates of Coherent Fractional Contributions to Radar Backscattered Power
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)It was recently demonstrated that magnitudes of the power-normalized cross-correlation functions of complex amplitudes in neighboring range bins are identical to the fractional contributions made by radar coherent backscatter ... -
Application of Radar Wind Observations for Low-Level NWP Wind Forecast Validation
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he Finnish Meteorological Institute has produced a new numerical weather prediction model?based wind atlas of Finland. The wind atlas provides information on local wind conditions in terms of annual and monthly wind speed ... -
A New Homogenized Climate Division Precipitation Dataset for Analysis of Climate Variability and Climate Change
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)new homogeneous climate division monthly precipitation dataset [based on full network estimated precipitation (FNEP)] was created as an alternative to the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) climate division dataset. These ... -
A Synthetic Aperture Radar–Based Climatology of Open-Cell Convection over the Northeast Pacific Ocean
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)This paper presents an 8-yr (1999?2006) climatology of the frequency of open-cell convection over the northeastern Pacific Ocean and the thermodynamic and kinematic environment associated with its development. The climatology ... -
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Wind Regimes along the Beaufort Sea Coast Favorable for Strong Wind Events at Tuktoyaktuk
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he community of Tuktoyaktuk (Northwest Territories, Canada) along the Beaufort Sea experiences dramatic shoreline erosion during storm surge events that tend to occur during persistent northwesterly wind events in the late ... -
Improvements in Shortwave Bulk Scattering and Absorption Models for the Remote Sensing of Ice Clouds
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)his study summarizes recent improvements in the development of bulk scattering/absorption models at solar wavelengths. The approach combines microphysical measurements from various field campaigns with single-scattering ... -
Regional and Large-Scale Influences on Summer Ozone Levels in Southern California
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he links between daily ozone levels in Southern California and atmospheric circulation at regional and large scales are examined for July?September 1994?2001. The monitoring station in Pasadena is used as the primary basis ... -
Wind Profiler Observations of Mountain Waves and Rotors during T-REX
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)network of three boundary layer radar wind profilers is used to study characteristics of mountain waves and rotors and to explore the utility of such a network. The data employed were collected as part of the Terrain-Induced ... -
Analysis of the Urban Thermal Fingerprint of the City of Trento in the Alps
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)he temperature contrasts typically marking urban heat island (UHI) effects in the city of Trento, Italy, located in an Alpine valley and inhabited in its inner urban area by a population of about 56 000, are investigated. ... -
Estimating Drought Conditions for Regions with Limited Precipitation Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Three closely related issues that affect drought estimation in regions with limited precipitation data are addressed by investigating methods for filling missing daily precipitation data, handling short-term records, and ... -
High-Temporal-Resolution Capabilities of the National Weather Radar Testbed Phased-Array Radar
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Since 2007 the advancement of the National Weather Radar Testbed Phased-Array Radar (NWRT PAR) hardware and software capabilities has been supporting the implementation of high-temporal-resolution (?1 min) sampling. To ... -
Seamless Advective Blending of Total Precipitable Water Retrievals from Polar-Orbiting Satellites
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)onventional methods of viewing and combining retrieved geophysical fields from polar-orbiting satellites often complicate the work of end users because of the erratic time differences between overpasses, the significant ... -
Comparing MODIS and AIRS Infrared-Based Cloud Retrievals
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)omparisons are described for infrared-derived cloud products retrieved from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) using measured spatial response functions ... -
The Cumulative Impact of Cloud Droplet Nucleating Aerosols on Orographic Snowfall in Colorado
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Hygroscopic pollution aerosols have the potential to alter winter orographic snowfall totals and spatial distributions by modification of high-elevation supercooled orographic clouds and the riming process. The authors ... -
New Geostationary Satellite–Based Snow-Cover Algorithm
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)now cover plays an important role in the climate system by changing the energy and mass transfer between the atmosphere and the surface. Reliable observations of the snow cover are difficult to obtain without satellites. ... -
Surface Emissivity Impact on Temperature and Moisture Soundings from Hyperspectral Infrared Radiance Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)n accurate land surface emissivity (LSE) is critical for the retrieval of atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles along with land surface temperature from hyperspectral infrared (IR) sounder radiances; it is also ...