Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Polarimetric Radar Observation of the Melting Layer in a Convective Rainfall System during the Rainy Season over the East China Sea
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)During the rainy season over the East China Sea, convective rainfalls often show melting layer (ML) characteristics in polarimetric radar variables. In this research, the appearance ratio of the ML (the ratio of rainfall ... -
Estimating the Urban Heat Island Contribution to Urban and Rural Air Temperature Differences over Complex Terrain: Application to an Arid City
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)This study proposes a method for estimating the canopy-layer net urban heat island (UHI) in regions with complex terrain that lack preurban observations. The approach is based on a linear relationship between the urban?rural ... -
Local-Scale Urban Meteorological Parameterization Scheme (LUMPS): Longwave Radiation Parameterization and Seasonality-Related Developments
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Recent developments to the Local-scale Urban Meteorological Parameterization Scheme (LUMPS), a simple model able to simulate the urban energy balance, are presented. The major development is the coupling of LUMPS to the ... -
Satellite and Radar Remote Sensing of Southern Plains Grass Fires: A Case Study
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Many large grass fires occurred in north Texas and southern Oklahoma on 9 April 2009, destroying hundreds of homes and businesses and burning thousands of acres of grasslands, producing large smoke and debris plumes that ... -
Evaluation of the Relationship between Air and Land Surface Temperature under Clear- and Cloudy-Sky Conditions
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Clear and cloudy daytime comparisons of land surface temperature (LST) and air temperature (Tair) were made for 14 stations included in the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) of stations from observations made from ... -
Evaluation of the Research-Version TMPA Rainfall Estimate at Its Finest Spatial and Temporal Scales over the Rome Metropolitan Area
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The focus of this study is the evaluation of the research-version Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) rainfall product at its finest spatial and temporal resolutions ... -
Identification of Small Ice Cloud Particles Using Passive Radiometric Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)There is currently significant uncertainty about the extent to which cirrus clouds are composed of ?small? ice crystals smaller than about 20-?m effective radius. This is due in part to concerns that in situ measurements ... -
Attenuation and Differential Attenuation of 5-cm-Wavelength Radiation in Melting Hail
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Presented are quantitative estimates of specific attenuation and specific differential attenuation of 5-cm-wavelength radiation (C band) obtained by comparison with measurements at 10-cm wavelength (S band), which are much ... -
Improvement of Surface Longwave Flux Algorithms Used in CERES Processing
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)An improvement was developed and tested for surface longwave flux algorithms used in the Clouds and the Earth?s Radiant Energy System processing based on lessons learned during the validation of global results of those ... -
Clouds at Arctic Atmospheric Observatories. Part I: Occurrence and Macrophysical Properties
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Cloud observations over the past decade from six Arctic atmospheric observatories are investigated to derive estimates of cloud occurrence fraction, vertical distribution, persistence in time, diurnal cycle, and boundary ... -
Upper-Level Atmospheric Circulation Patterns and Ground-Level Ozone in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The purpose of this paper is to identify middle-troposphere circulation patterns associated with high ozone concentrations during June?August of 2000?07 in the Atlanta, Georgia, metropolitan statistical area (MSA), which ... -
Dent Overlap in Hailpads: Error Estimation and Measurement Correction
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)he measurement of the physical characteristics of hailstones reaching the ground is usually carried out by means of hailpads, on which the impact of hailstones leaves dents. Hailstone dents provide information about ... -
Statistical Prediction of the Storm Surge Associated with Cool-Weather Storms at the Battery, New York
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The winter and early spring weather in the New York City metropolitan region is highly influenced by extratropical storm systems, and the storm surge associated with these systems is one of the main factors contributing ... -
Estimation of Liquid Cloud Properties that Conserve Total-Scene Reflectance Using Satellite Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)A new method of deriving statistical moments related to the distribution of liquid water path over partially cloudy scenes is tested using a satellite cloud climatology. The method improves the ability to reconstruct ... -
Near-Surface Characteristics of the Turbulence Structure during a Mountain-Wave Event
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)case study of mountain-wave-induced turbulence observed during the Terrain-Induced Rotor Experiment (T-REX) in Owens Valley, California, is presented. During this case study, large spatial and temporal variability in aerosol ... -
Using a Discriminant Analysis to Classify Urban and Rural Climate Stations Based on Diurnal Range of Temperature and Dewpoint Depression
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Most climatological datasets are beset with urban temperature influences that distort long-term trends. Using an hourly dataset of 41 urban and rural stations from the United States, discriminant functions were developed ... -
Climatology of Anomalous Propagation Radar Echoes in a Coastal Area
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Anomalous propagation (AP) of ground-based radar beam results in the detection of ground echoes beyond the horizon. One year of data gathered with an S-band meteorological radar located on the coast in southwest France is ... -
CloudSat Studies of Stratiform Precipitation Systems Observed in the Vicinity of the Southern Great Plains Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Site
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The spaceborne W-band (94 GHz) radar on board the CloudSat polar-orbiting satellite offers new opportunities for retrieving parameters of precipitating cloud systems. CloudSat measurements can resolve the vertical cross ... -
Warning Information in a Preconvection Environment from the Geostationary Advanced Infrared Sounding System—A Simulation Study Using the IHOP Case
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)In this paper, a convective initiation event from the International H2O Project (IHOP) field experiment is used to demonstrate the potential utility of a future geostationary advanced infrared (IR) sounder for severe storm ... -
Comparison of Satellite Cloud Masks with Ceilometer Sky Conditions in Southern Finland
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The cloud mask is an essential product derived from satellite data. Whereas cloud analysis applications typically make use of information from cloudy pixels, many other applications require cloud-free conditions. For this ...