Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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High-Repetition Millimeter-Wave Passive Remote Sensing of Humidity and Hydrometeor Profiles from Elliptical Orbit Constellations
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The potential of an elliptical-orbit Flower Constellation of Millimeter-Wave Radiometers (FLORAD) for humidity profile and precipitating cloud observations is analyzed and discussed. The FLORAD mission scientific requirements ... -
Observational Characterization of the Downward Atmospheric Longwave Radiation at the Surface in the City of São Paulo
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)This work describes the seasonal and diurnal variations of downward longwave atmospheric irradiance (LW) at the surface in S?o Paulo, Brazil, using 5-min-averaged values of LW, air temperature, relative humidity, and solar ... -
Climatological Conditions of Lake-Effect Precipitation Events Associated with the New York State Finger Lakes
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)A climatological analysis was conducted of the environmental and atmospheric conditions that occurred during 125 identified lake-effect (LE) precipitation events in the New York State Finger Lakes region for the 11 winters ... -
A Quest for Effective Hygroscopic Cloud Seeding
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)It is shown here that hygroscopic seeding requires two orders of magnitude more hygroscopic agent than can be delivered by flare technology for producing raindrop embryos in concentrations to detect by cloud physics aircraft ... -
Prospects of the WSR-88D Radar for Cloud Studies
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)ounding of nonprecipitating clouds with the 10-cm wavelength Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) is discussed. Readily available enhancements to signal processing and volume coverage patterns of the WSR-88D ... -
Rainfall-Rate Assignment Using MSG SEVIRI Data—A Promising Approach to Spaceborne Rainfall-Rate Retrieval for Midlatitudes
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The potential of rainfall-rate assignment using Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Instrument (SEVIRI) data is investigated. For this purpose, a new conceptual model for precipitation ... -
Development of a Cloud-Top Height Estimation Method by Geostationary Satellite Split-Window Measurements Trained with CloudSat Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Lookup tables for estimating the cloud-top height and visible optical thickness of upper-tropospheric clouds by the infrared brightness temperature TB at 10.8 ?m (T11) and its difference from TB at 12 ?m (?T11?12) measured ... -
The Vertical Stratification of Air Temperature in the Center of Athens
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The intraurban temperature variation in the center of Athens, Greece, was investigated in relation to urban geometry. This paper describes two main tasks: 1) Air temperature was recorded in the center of Athens and at the ... -
Evaluation of the Summertime Low-Level Winds Simulated by MM5 in the Central Valley of California
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)A season-long set of 5-day simulations between 1200 UTC 1 June and 1200 UTC 30 September 2000 are evaluated using the observations taken during the Central California Ozone Study (CCOS) 2000 experiment. The simulations are ... -
Modeling Seasonal Changes in the Temperature Lapse Rate in a Northern Thailand Mountainous Area
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Temperature data in the mountain forest regions are often extrapolated from temperature data recorded at base stations at lower elevation. Such extrapolation is often based on elevation differences between target regions ... -
Structures and Seasonal Variations of Surface Winds Blowing through the Tsushima Strait
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Surface winds blowing through the Tsushima Strait are statistically investigated using satellite wind measurements and atmospheric reanalysis data. This study first presents structures and seasonal variations of the ... -
WRF Simulations of the 20–22 January 2007 Snow Events over Eastern Canada: Comparison with In Situ and Satellite Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)One of the grand challenges of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission is to improve cold-season precipitation measurements in mid- and high latitudes through the use of high-frequency passive microwave radiometry. ... -
Investigation of the Turbulent Structure of a Cloud-Capped Mixed Layer Using Doppler Radar
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)A new method for retrieving air velocity fluctuations in the cloud-capped boundary layer (BL) using radar reflectivity and the Doppler velocity fields is proposed. The method was developed on the basis of data obtained by ... -
Evaluating Detection Skills of Satellite Rainfall Estimates over Desert Locust Recession Regions
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)This paper evaluates rainfall detection capabilities of seven satellite rainfall estimates over the desert locust recession regions of the world. The region of interest covers the arid and semiarid region from northwestern ... -
Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) Intersensor Calibration Using a Simultaneous Conical Overpass Technique
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)A new intersensor calibration scheme is developed for the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) to correct its scan-angle-dependent bias, the radar calibration beacon interference ... -
Improving Farmers’ Perception and Use of Climate Predictions in Farming Decisions: A Transition Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Despite tremendous efforts to improve weather and climate predictions and to inform farmers about the use of such weather products, farmers? attitudes toward forecast use remain poor and farmer use of forecasts has not ... -
An Experimental Study of Small-Scale Variability of Raindrop Size Distribution
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)An experimental study of small-scale variability of raindrop size distributions (DSDs) has been carried out at Wallops Island, Virginia. Three Joss?Waldvogel disdrometers were operated at a distance of 0.65, 1.05, and 1.70 ... -
Polarimetric Attenuation Correction in Heavy Rain at C Band
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The ability of C-band polarimetric radar to account for strong attenuation/differential attenuation is demonstrated in two cases of heavy rain that occurred in the Chicago, Illinois, metropolitan area on 5 August 2008 and ... -
The Impact of Evaporation on Polarimetric Characteristics of Rain: Theoretical Model and Practical Implications
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Soon, the National Weather Service?s Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) network will be upgraded to allow dual-polarization capabilities. Therefore, it is imperative to understand and identify microphysical ... -
The Influence of Blowing Snow and Precipitation on Snow Depth Change across the Ross Ice Shelf and Ross Sea Regions of Antarctica
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Measuring snowfall in the polar regions is an issue met with many complications. Across the Antarctic, ground-based precipitation measurements are only available from a sparse network of manned stations or field studies. ...