Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Using an Integrated Response-Function Method to Explore Agro-Climatic Suitability for Spring Soybean Growth in North China
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)o understand agro-climatic suitability for spring soybean growth in north China, an integrated crop-response-function method was developed. This method includes crop-response functions for temperature, precipitation, and ... -
Prototyping a Generic, Unified Land Surface Classification and Screening Methodology for GPM-Era Microwave Land Precipitation Retrieval Algorithms
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)prototype generic, unified land surface classification and screening methodology for Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM)-era microwave land precipitation retrieval algorithms by using ancillary datasets is developed. ... -
The Definition of GOES Infrared Lightning Initiation Interest Fields
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Within cumulus cloud fields that develop in conditionally unstable air masses, only a fraction of the cumuli may eventually develop into deep convection. Identifying which of these convective clouds is most likely to ... -
Relationship between Radar-Estimated Precipitation and Synoptic Weather Patterns in the European Alps
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)9-yr (2000?08) analysis of precipitation characteristics for the central and western European Alps has been generated from ground-based operational weather radar data provided by the Swiss radar network. The radar-based ... -
Ocean–Atmosphere Influences on Low-Frequency Warm-Season Drought Variability in the Gulf Coast and Southeastern United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)rom the 344 state climate divisions in the conterminous United States, nine distinct regions of warm-season drought variability are identified using principal component analysis. The drought metric used is the Palmer ... -
A Satellite-Based Summer Convective Cloud Frequency Analysis over the Southeastern United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)convective cloud (CC) analysis is performed over the southeastern United States (SEUS) during June, July, and August 2006 and 2007, using data from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) visible and ... -
Surface Wind Direction Variability
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Common large shifts of wind direction in the weak-wind nocturnal boundary layer are poorly understood and are not adequately captured by numerical models and statistical parameterizations. The current study examines 15 ... -
Temporal and Spatial Variations of NOx and Ozone Concentrations in Seoul during the Solar Eclipse of 22 July 2009
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The temporal and spatial variations of NO, NO2, and O3 concentrations in Seoul, South Korea, during the solar eclipse of 22 July 2009 are investigated by analyzing data measured at 25 environmental monitoring stations. The ... -
Prediction of Seasonal Forest Fire Severity in Canada from Large-Scale Climate Patterns
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)n empirical scheme for predicting the meteorological conditions that lead to summer forest fire severity for Canada using the multivariate singular value decomposition (SVD) has been developed for the 1953?2007 period. The ... -
Diagnostic Study of the Effects of a Large City on Heavy Rainfall as Revealed by an Ensemble Simulation: A Case Study of Central Tokyo, Japan
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)This study was undertaken to investigate the effects of a large city on heavy rainfall in Tokyo, Japan, based on an ensemble simulation with a large number of members. An ensemble simulation (24 members) of eight brief ... -
S-Band Dual-Polarization Radar Observations of Winter Storms
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)his study is based on analyses of dual-polarization radar observations made by the 11-cm-wavelength Colorado State University?University of Chicago?Illinois State Water Survey (CSU?CHILL) system during four significant ... -
Toward New Inferences about Cloud Structures from Multidirectional Measurements in the Oxygen A Band: Middle-of-Cloud Pressure and Cloud Geometrical Thickness from POLDER-3/PARASOL
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)New evidence from collocated measurements, with support from theory and numerical simulations, that multidirectional measurements in the oxygen A band from the third Polarization and Directionality of the Earth?s Reflectances ... -
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Typical Patterns of Microwave Signatures and Vertical Profiles of Precipitation in the Midlatitudes from TRMM Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)epresentative patterns from multichannel microwave brightness temperature Tb in the midlatitude oceanic region, observed by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI), are studied during precipitation ... -
A Mass Flux Model of Nocturnal Cold-Air Intrusions into a Closed Basin
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)bservations made during the Meteor Crater Experiment (METCRAX) field campaign revealed unexpected nighttime cooling characteristics in Arizona?s Meteor Crater. Unlike in other natural closed basins, a near-isothermal ... -
Characteristics of CALIPSO and CloudSat Backscatter at the Top Center Layers of Mesoscale Convective Systems and Relation to Cloud Microphysics
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Following the discovery of anomalously high values of lidar integrated attenuated backscatter near the top center layers of mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) observed by the NASA Lidar In-Space Technology Experiment ... -
A Study of the Urban Boundary Layer Using Different Urban Parameterizations and High-Resolution Urban Canopy Parameters with WRF
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)n the last two decades, mesoscale models (MMs) with urban canopy parameterizations have been widely used to study urban boundary layer processes. Different studies show that such parameterizations are sensitive to the urban ... -
Development of a New USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map for the United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)n many regions of the world, the extremes of winter cold are a major determinant of the geographic distribution of perennial plant species and of their successful cultivation. In the United States, the U.S. Department of ... -
A Modular Optimal Estimation Method for Combined Radar–Radiometer Precipitation Profiling
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Although zonal mean rain rates from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) are in good (<10%) agreement between the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) and precipitation radar (PR) rainfall algorithms, significant uncertainties ... -
Future Occurrence of Threshold-Crossing Seasonal Rainfall Totals: Methodology and Application to Sites in Africa
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)A statistical simulation framework is developed to explore the future frequencies of threshold-crossing events, focusing here on low seasonal rainfall totals. Global change (GC) is represented by a trend on the seasonal ...