Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Climatology of Thunderstorms for North Dakota, 2002–06
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Radar and surface thunderstorm data in North Dakota were investigated to obtain the climatology of thunderstorms in the state. A life cycle analysis for the individual storm cells between 2002 and 2006 was carried out, and ... -
Obtaining Best Estimates for the Microphysical and Radiative Properties of Tropical Ice Clouds from TWP-ICE In Situ Microphysical Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)est estimates of the bulk microphysical and radiative properties (ice water content, visible extinction, effective radius, and total concentration) are derived for three case studies of tropical ice clouds sampled during ... -
On the Enhanced Temporal Coherency of Radar Observations in Precipitation
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)In this work, the authors present observations of enhanced temporal coherency beyond that expected using the observations of the standard deviation of the Doppler velocities and the assumption of a family of exponentially ... -
Reversible Record Breaking and Variability: Temperature Distributions across the Globe
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Based on counts of record highs and lows, and employing reversibility in time, an approach to examining natural variability is proposed. The focus is on intrinsic variability; that is, variance separated from the trend in ... -
An Experimental Field Dataset with Buoyant, Neutral, and Dense Gas Atmospheric Releases and Model Comparisons in Low–Wind Speed (Diffusion) Conditions
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)A unique field dataset from a series of low?wind speed experiments, modeling efforts using three commonly used models to replicate these releases, and statistical analysis of how well these models were able to predict the ... -
High-Resolution Numerical Modeling of Thermally Driven Slope Winds in a Valley with Strong Capping
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The complete day?night cycle of the circulation over a slope under simplified idealized boundary conditions is investigated by means of large-eddy simulations (LES). The thermal forcing is given with a time-varying law for ... -
California Wintertime Precipitation Bias in Regional and Global Climate Models
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)In this paper, wintertime precipitation from a variety of observational datasets, regional climate models (RCMs), and general circulation models (GCMs) is averaged over the state of California and compared. Several averaging ... -
A Climatology of Inland Winds from Tropical Cyclones for the Eastern United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Tropical cyclones pose a significant threat to life and property along coastal regions of the United States. As these systems move inland and dissipate, they can also pose a threat to life and property, through heavy rains, ... -
A Simple Method to Retrieve Cloud Properties from Atmospheric Transmittance and Liquid Water Column Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)A deeper knowledge of the effects and interactions of clouds in the climatic system requires developing both satellite and ground-based methods to assess their optical properties. A simple method based on a parameterized ... -
Seasonal Predictability of Daily Rainfall Characteristics in Central Northern Chile for Dry-Land Management
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The seasonal predictability of daily winter rainfall characteristics relevant to dry-land management was investigated in the Coquimbo region of central northern Chile, with focus on the seasonal rainfall total, daily ... -
Forecasting Long-Lead Rainfall Probability with Application to Australia’s Northeastern Coast
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The authors develop a method for the long-lead forecasting of El Niño?influenced rainfall probability and illustrate it using the economically important prediction, from the beginning of the year, of September?November ... -
Comprehensive Automated Quality Assurance of Daily Surface Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)This paper describes a comprehensive set of fully automated quality assurance (QA) procedures for observations of daily surface temperature, precipitation, snowfall, and snow depth. The QA procedures are being applied ... -
New Techniques for the Detection and Adjustment of Shifts in Daily Precipitation Data Series
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)This study integrates a Box?Cox power transformation procedure into a common trend two-phase regression-model-based test (the extended version of the penalized maximal F test, or ?PMFred,? algorithm) for detecting changepoints ... -
Estimation of Climate-Change Impacts on the Urban Heat Load Using an Urban Climate Model and Regional Climate Projections
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)A pragmatic approach to estimate the impact of climate change on the urban environment, here called the cuboid method, is presented. This method allows one to simulate the urban heat load and the frequency of air temperature ... -
Contribution of Land Use Changes to Near-Surface Air Temperatures during Recent Summer Extreme Heat Events in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The impact of 1973?2005 land use?land cover (LULC) changes on near-surface air temperatures during four recent summer extreme heat events (EHEs) are investigated for the arid Phoenix, Arizona, metropolitan area using the ... -
Polarimetric Radar Observation Operator for a Cloud Model with Spectral Microphysics
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)he radar observation operator for computation of polarimetric radar variables from the output of numerical cloud models is described in its most generic form. This operator is combined with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ... -
Multilayer Cloud Detection with the MODIS Near-Infrared Water Vapor Absorption Band
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Data Collection 5 processing for the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Terra and Aqua spacecraft includes an algorithm for detecting multilayered clouds ... -
Quality Control and Tilt Correction Effects on the Turbulent Fluxes Observed at an Ocean Platform
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)This study investigates atmospheric factors influencing the quality and the postprocessing (e.g., tilt correction) of fast-response measurements of turbulent fluxes for difficult open-sea measurements over an offshore ... -
Identification of Vertical Profiles of Reflectivity for Correction of Volumetric Radar Data Using Rainfall Classification
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Nonuniform beam filling associated with the vertical variation of atmospheric reflectivity is an important source of error in the estimation of rainfall rates by radar. It is, however, possible to correct for this error ... -
Low-Level Wind Field Climatology over the La Plata River Region Obtained with a Mesoscale Atmospheric Boundary Layer Model Forced with Local Weather Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)A primitive equation, dry, hydrostatic, and incompressible mesoscale boundary layer model is used to simulate the high-horizontal-resolution low-level wind field ?climatology? over the La Plata River region in South America. ...