Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Surface Wind Regionalization over Complex Terrain: Evaluation and Analysis of a High-Resolution WRF Simulation
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)This study analyzes the daily-mean surface wind variability over an area characterized by complex topography through comparing observations and a 2-km-spatial-resolution simulation performed with the Weather Research and ... -
On the Derivation of Material Thermal Properties Representative of Heterogeneous Urban Neighborhoods
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)An important question arises when modeling a heterogeneous landscape (e.g., an urbanized area) with a mesoscale atmospheric model. The surface within a grid cell of the model (which has a typical dimension of one or more ... -
A Combined Multisensor Optimal Estimation Retrieval Algorithm for Oceanic Warm Rain Clouds
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The complicated interactions between cloud processes in the tropical hydrologic cycle and their responses to changes in environmental variables have been the focus of many recent investigations. Most studies that examine ... -
Estimation of Atmospheric Motion Vectors from Kalpana-1 Imagers
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The estimation of atmospheric motion vectors from infrared and water vapor channels on the geostationary operational Indian National Satellite System Kalpana-1 has been attempted here. An empirical height assignment technique ... -
Method Development for Estimating Sensible Heat Flux over the Tibetan Plateau from CMA Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)To clarify the thermal forcing of the Tibetan Plateau, long-term coarse-temporal-resolution data from the China Meteorological Administration have been widely used to estimate surface sensible heat flux by bulk methods in ... -
Comments on “An Investigation of the Slope–Shape Relation for Gamma Raindrop Size Distribution”
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Observed Sea Surface Temperature of Tokyo Bay and Its Impact on Urban Air Temperature
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Sea surface temperature (SST) and air temperature were measured in situ in Tokyo Bay. These measurements were made with high spatial and temporal resolutions between November 2006 and September 2007. The analysis of these ... -
Comparative Study of Gaussian Dispersion Formulas within the Polyphemus Platform: Evaluation with Prairie Grass and Kincaid Experiments
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)This paper details a number of existing formulations used in Gaussian models in a clear and usable way, and provides a comparison within a single framework?the Gaussian plume and puff models of the air quality modeling ... -
Exploring the Transient Behavior of Z–R Relationships: Implications for Radar Rainfall Estimation
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The objective of this study is to characterize the signature of dynamical microphysical processes on reflectivity?rainfall (Z?R) relationships used for radar rainfall estimation. For this purpose, a bin model with explicit ... -
A Comparison of Oceanic Precipitation Estimates in the Tropics and Subtropics
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)A number of Earth remote sensing satellites are currently carrying passive microwave radiometers. A variety of different retrieval algorithms are used to estimate surface rain rates over the ocean from the microwave radiances ... -
Validation of Solar Radiation Surfaces from MODIS and Reanalysis Data over Topographically Complex Terrain
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The magnitude and distribution of incoming shortwave solar radiation (SW?) has significant influence on the productive capacity of forest vegetation. Models that estimate forest productivity require accurate and spatially ... -
Detecting Precipitating Clouds over Snow and Ice Using a Multiple Sensors Approach
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)This work discusses a snowfall detection approach for high-latitude regions that is based on a combination of passive sensors to discriminate between snowing and nonsnowing areas. Two different techniques have been developed ... -
Modeling the Surface Energy Budget during the Thawing Period of the 2006 Montreal Urban Snow Experiment
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The Montreal Urban Snow Experiment was dedicated to furthering the understanding of micrometeorological processes involved in the late winter?early spring transition period in a Canadian city. A surface energy budget (SEB) ... -
Investigation of the Variability of Cloud Condensation Nuclei Concentrations at the Surface in Western North Dakota
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Daily observations of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) were made for three summer months in 2005 at a site in rural western North Dakota. The goal was to define the natural background CCN population characteristics and to ... -
On the Consequences of Resampling Microwave Radiometer Observations for Use in Retrieval Algorithms
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)How to deal with the different spatial resolutions of multifrequency satellite microwave radiometer measurements is a common problem in retrievals of cloud properties and rainfall. Data convolution and deconvolution is a ... -
Length Scales of the Neutral Wind Profile over Homogeneous Terrain
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The wind speed profile for the neutral boundary layer is derived for a number of mixing-length parameterizations, which account for the height of the boundary layer. The wind speed profiles show good agreement with the ... -
Comparison of GPCP Monthly and Daily Precipitation Estimates with High-Latitude Gauge Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Monthly and daily products of the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) are evaluated through a comparison with Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) gauge observations for the period January 1995?December 2007 ... -
The Synergistic Relationship between Soil Moisture and the Low-Level Jet and Its Role on the Prestorm Environment in the Southern Great Plains
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Changes in low-level moisture alter the convective parameters [e.g., convective available potential energy (CAPE), lifted index (LI), and convective inhibition (CIN)] as a result of alterations in the latent and sensible ... -
Validation of a Large-Scale Simulated Brightness Temperature Dataset Using SEVIRI Satellite Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)In this study, the accuracy of a simulated infrared brightness temperature dataset derived from a unique large-scale, high-resolution Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model simulation is evaluated through a comparison ... -
Sea-Breeze Convergence Zones from AVHRR over the Iberian Mediterranean Area and the Isle of Mallorca, Spain
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The aim of this study was to identify clear air boundaries and to obtain spatial distribution of convective areas associated with the sea breeze over the Iberian Mediterranean zone and the isle of Mallorca, both in Spain. ...