Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Validation and Intercomparison of Satellite Rainfall Estimates over Colombia
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Seven different satellite rainfall estimates are evaluated at daily and 10-daily time scales and a spatial resolution of 0.25° latitude/longitude. The reference data come from a relatively dense station network of about ... -
Global Precipitation Retrievals Using the NOAA AMSU Millimeter-Wave Channels: Comparisons with Rain Gauges
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)A surface-precipitation-rate retrieval algorithm for 13-channel Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) millimeter-wave spectral observations from 23 to 191 GHz is described. It was trained using cloud-resolving fifth-generation ... -
Application of CALIOP Measurements to the Evaluation of Cloud Phase Derived from MODIS Infrared Channels
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)In this study, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) infrared-based cloud thermodynamic phase retrievals are evaluated using Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) retrievals for the 6 ... -
A Satellite-Based Assessment of Upper-Tropospheric Water Vapor Measurements during AFWEX
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Consistency of upper-tropospheric water vapor measurements from a variety of state-of-the-art instruments was assessed using collocated Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-8 (GOES-8) 6.7-?m brightness ... -
Developing an Online Information System Prototype for Global Satellite Precipitation Algorithm Validation and Intercomparison
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Over the decades, significant progress has been made in satellite precipitation product development. In particular, temporal resolution and timely availability have been improved by blended techniques. The resulting products, ... -
On Estimating Hurricane Return Periods
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Interest in hurricane risk usually focuses on landfalling events of the highest intensity, which cause a disproportionate amount of hurricane-related damage. Yet assessing the long-term risk of the most intense landfalling ... -
Preliminary Development and Evaluation of Lightning Jump Algorithms for the Real-Time Detection of Severe Weather
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Previous studies have demonstrated that rapid increases in total lightning activity (intracloud + cloud-to-ground) are often observed tens of minutes in advance of the occurrence of severe weather at the ground. These rapid ... -
Validation of the CERES Edition 2B Surface-Only Flux Algorithms
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The Clouds and the Earth?s Radiant Energy System (CERES) project uses two shortwave (SW) and two longwave (LW) algorithms to derive surface radiative fluxes on an instantaneous footprint basis from a combination of ... -
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Major Growth in Some Business-Related Uses of Climate Information
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Uses of climate information have grown considerably in the past 15 years as a wide variety of weather-sensitive businesses sought to deal effectively with their financial losses and manage risks associated with various ... -
Diagnostics of Climate Model Biases in Summer Temperature and Warm-Season Insolation for the Simulation of Regional Paddy Rice Yield in Japan
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)This study quantifies the ranges of climate model biases in surface air temperature for July and August (summer temperature) and daily total insolation for May?October (warm-season insolation) that can give simulated ... -
Polarimetric Radar Rain Estimation through Retrieval of Drop Size Distribution Using a Bayesian Approach
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)This study proposes a Bayesian approach to retrieve raindrop size distributions (DSDs) and to estimate rainfall rates from radar reflectivity in horizontal polarization ZH and differential reflectivity ZDR. With this ... -
The Frequency of High-Impact Convective Weather Events in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area, Minnesota
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Thunderstorms frequently produce brief flooding or minor damage, though far fewer lead to major flooding and widespread or significant damage. Outbreaks of such storms exact large tolls on their victims and can compromise, ... -
Generation of Infrasound by Evaporating Hydrometeors in a Cloud Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The dynamical core of the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System has been tailored to simulate the infrasound of vortex motions and diabatic cloud processes in a convective storm. Earlier studies have shown that the customized ... -
Southeast Pacific Stratocumulus: High-Frequency Variability and Mesoscale Structures over San Félix Island
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Stratocumulus cloud cover patterns and their relationship to drizzle were characterized at San Felix Island (SFI; 26.5°S, 80°W) in the southeast Pacific Ocean. Small closed, large closed, and open cells were identified in ... -
Distributions of Raindrop Sizes and Fall Velocities in a Semiarid Plateau Climate: Convective versus Stratiform Rains
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Joint size and fall velocity distributions of raindrops were measured with a Particle Size and Velocity (PARSIVEL) precipitation particle disdrometer in a field experiment conducted during July and August 2007 at a semiarid ... -
Diagnosing the Surface Layer Parameters for Dispersion Models within the Meteorological-to-Dispersion Modeling Interface
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The problem of providing dispersion models with meteorological information from general atmospheric models used, for example, for weather forecasting is considered. As part of a generalized meteorological-to-dispersion ... -
Analysis of the Relationship between Banded Orographic Convection and Atmospheric Properties Using Factorial Discriminant Analysis and Neural Networks
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The relationship between banded orographic convection and atmospheric properties is investigated for a region in the south of France where the associated rainfall events are thought to represent a significant portion of ... -
Elevated Ozone Layers over the Seoul Metropolitan Region in Korea: Evidence for Long-Range Ozone Transport from Eastern China and Its Contribution to Surface Concentrations
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Elevated layers of high ozone concentration were observed over the Seoul metropolitan region (SMR) in Korea by ozonesonde measurements during 6?9 June 2003. An analysis of the synoptic-scale meteorological features and ... -
Comparison of AIRS and IASI Radiances Using GOES Imagers as Transfer Radiometers toward Climate Data Records
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) and the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI), together with the future Cross-track Infrared Sounder, will provide long-term hyperspectral measurements of the earth and ...