Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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A Homogeneous Record (1896–2006) of Daily Weather and Climate at Mohonk Lake, New York
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Reliable, long-term records of daily weather and climate are relatively rare but are crucial for understanding long-term trends and variability in extreme events and other climate metrics that are not resolvable at the ... -
Utilizing Spaceborne Radars to Retrieve Dry Snowfall
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)A dataset consisting of one year of CloudSat Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) near-surface radar reflectivity Z associated with dry snowfall is examined in this study. The CPR observations are converted to snowfall rates S using ... -
Relationship between Lightning Activity over Peninsular India and Sea Surface Temperature
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)This paper presents a study of spatiotemporal variation of lightning activity over Peninsular India (8°?22°N, 72°?88°E) by using monthly satellite-based lightning flash grid (1° ? 1°) data for a period of 10 yr (1998?2007). ... -
Scaling the Daytime Urban Heat Island and Urban-Breeze Circulation
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The urban-breeze circulation is a mesoscale response of the atmospheric flow that is related to horizontal variations in temperature associated, for dry conditions, with gradients in sensible heat flux densities. This local ... -
Possibility of the Visible-Channel Calibration Using Deep Convective Clouds Overshooting the TTL
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The authors examined the possible use of deep convective clouds (DCCs), defined as clouds that overshoot the tropical tropopause layer (TTL), for the calibration of satellite measurements at solar channels. DCCs are ... -
Microwave Emission Brightness Temperature Histograms (METH) Rain Rates for Climate Studies: Remote Sensing Systems SSM/I Version-6 Results
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)A satellite microwave emission brightness temperature histograms (METH) technique has been applied to Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) data taken on board the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites ... -
Bias in Minimum Temperature Introduced by a Redefinition of the Climatological Day at the Canadian Synoptic Stations
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)On 1 July 1961, the climatological day was redefined to end at 0600 UTC (coordinated universal time) at all synoptic (airport) stations in Canada. Prior to that, the climatological day ended at 1200 UTC for maximum temperature ... -
Modeling the Thermal Effects of Artificial Turf on the Urban Environment
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The effects of artificial turf (AT) on the urban canopy layer energy balance, air and surface temperatures, and building cooling loads are compared to those of other common ground surface materials (asphalt, concrete, and ... -
CloudSat Precipitation Profiling Algorithm—Model Description
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Identifying and quantifying the intensity of light precipitation at global scales is still a difficult problem for most of the remote sensing algorithms in use today. The variety of techniques and algorithms employed for ... -
New York City Storm Surges: Climatology and an Analysis of the Wind and Cyclone Evolution
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)A climatological description (?climatology?) of storm surges and actual flooding (storm tide) events from 1959 to 2007 is presented for the New York City (NYC) harbor. The prevailing meteorological conditions associated ... -
East Coast Cool-Weather Storms in the New York Metropolitan Region
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)New York coastal regions are frequently exposed to winter extratropical storm systems that exhibit a wide range of local impacts. Studies of these systems either have used localized water-level or beach erosion data to ... -
Verification of a High-Resolution Model Forecast Using Airborne Doppler Radar Analysis during the Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Guillermo
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The NOAA Hurricane Research Division (HRD) P-3 aircraft provided airborne radar observations during the period of rapid intensification of Hurricane Guillermo on 2 August 1997. The inner core structure and evolution of ... -
Sensitivity Studies of the Models of Radar-Rainfall Uncertainties
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)It is well acknowledged that there are large uncertainties associated with the operational quantitative precipitation estimates produced by the U.S. national network of the Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D). ... -
Time-Dependent Changes in Extreme-Precipitation Return-Period Amounts in the Continental United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Partial-duration maximum precipitation series from Historical Climatology Network stations are used as a basis for assessing trends in extreme-precipitation recurrence-interval amounts. Two types of time series are analyzed: ... -
Precipitation Simulations Using WRF as a Nested Regional Climate Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)This note examines the sensitivity of simulated U.S. warm-season precipitation in the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF), used as a nested regional climate model, to variations in model setup. Numerous options ... -
Stable Boundary Layer Depth from High-Resolution Measurements of the Mean Wind Profile
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The depth h of the stable boundary layer (SBL) has long been an elusive measurement. In this diagnostic study the use of high-quality, high-resolution (?z = 10 m) vertical profile data of the mean wind U(z) and streamwise ... -
Simulations of Polarimetric Radar Signatures of a Supercell Storm Using a Two-Moment Bulk Microphysics Scheme
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)A new general polarimetric radar simulator for nonhydrostatic numerical weather prediction (NWP) models has been developed based on rigorous scattering calculations using the T-matrix method for reflectivity, differential ... -
Rainfall Estimation from Polarimetric S-Band Radar Measurements: Validation of a Neural Network Approach
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)A procedure for the estimation of rainfall rate, capitalizing on a radar-based raindrop size distribution (RSD) parameter retrieval and neural network (NN) inversion techniques, is validated using an extensive and ... -
A Revised Cloud Overlap Scheme for Fast Microwave Radiative Transfer in Rain and Cloud
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The assimilation of cloud- and precipitation-affected observations into weather forecasting systems requires very fast calculations of radiative transfer in the presence of multiple scattering. At the European Centre for ... -
Improving SCIPUFF Dispersion Forecasts with NWP Ensembles
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The relationships between atmospheric transport and dispersion (AT&D) plume uncertainty and uncertainties in the transporting wind fields are investigated using the Second-Order Closure, Integrated Puff (SCIPUFF) AT&D model ...