Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Verification of Tropical Cyclone–Related Satellite Precipitation Estimates in Mainland China
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)To evaluate the abilities of satellite retrievals in reflecting precipitation features related to tropical cyclones (TCs) affecting mainland China, four years of 6- and 24-h precipitation retrievals from three datasets, ... -
Effects of Historical Urbanization in the Brussels Capital Region on Surface Air Temperature Time Series: A Model Study
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The authors examine the local impact of change in impervious surfaces in the Brussels capital region (BCR), Belgium, on trends in maximum, minimum, and mean temperatures between 1960 and 1999. Specifically, data are combined ... -
Toward Understanding the Value of Climate Information for Multiobjective Reservoir Management under Present and Future Climate and Demand Scenarios
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Numerical simulation techniques and idealized reservoir management models are used to assess the utility of climate information for the effective management of a single multiobjective reservoir. Reservoir management considers ... -
Investigating Time-Scale Effects on Reference Evapotranspiration from Epan Data in North China
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Reference evapotranspiration (ETo) and pan evaporation (Epan) are key parameters in hydrological and meteorological studies. The authors? objectives were to evaluate the ratio of ETo to Epan (kp) at daily and monthly scales ... -
Performance Assessment of New Land Surface and Planetary Boundary Layer Physics in the WRF-ARW
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The Pleim?Xiu land surface model, Pleim surface layer scheme, and Asymmetric Convective Model (version 2) are now options in version 3.0 of the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) Advanced Research WRF (ARW) core. ... -
Evaluation of the Town Energy Balance Model in Cold and Snowy Conditions during the Montreal Urban Snow Experiment 2005
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Using the Montreal Urban Snow Experiment (MUSE) 2005 database, surface radiation and energy exchanges are simulated in offline mode with the Town Energy Balance (TEB) and the Interactions between Soil, Biosphere, and ... -
Evaluation of Snow Albedo in Land Models for Weather and Climate Studies
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Snow albedo plays an important role in land models for weather, climate, and hydrometeorological studies, but its treatment in various land models still contains significant deficiencies. Complementary to previous studies ... -
Passive Microwave Brightness Temperatures as Proxies for Hailstorms
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite has been used to infer distributions of intense thunderstorms. Besides the lightning measurements from TRMM, the radar reflectivities and passive microwave brightness ... -
A Study of Air Quality in the Southeastern Hampton–Norfolk–Virginia Beach Region with Airborne Lidar Measurements and MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)A study of air quality was performed using a compact, aircraft aerosol lidar designed in the Science Directorate at NASA Langley Research Center and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aerosol optical ... -
Assessment of the Quality of MODIS Cloud Products from Radiance Simulations
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Observations made by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), the Cloud?Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO), and CloudSat are ... -
Estimating Higher-Order Moments of Nonlinear Time Series
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)This study extends the authors? earlier work that addresses the importance of bootstrap methods in computing statistical characteristics of meteorological and climatological datasets. Subsampling confidence intervals for ... -
A Method to Detect Inhomogeneities in Historical Dewpoint Temperature Series
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Hourly dewpoint temperature data for the 1951?2006 period at 10 stations in the contiguous United States were investigated to determine if inhomogeneities in their records could be detected. At least three instrument changes ... -
The Role of Monthly Updated Climate Forecasts in Improving Intraseasonal Water Allocation
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Seasonal streamflow forecasts contingent on climate information are essential for short-term planning (e.g., water allocation) and for setting up contingency measures during extreme years. However, the water allocated based ... -
Comparison of GOES Cloud Classification Algorithms Employing Explicit and Implicit Physics
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Cloud-type classification based on multispectral satellite imagery data has been widely researched and demonstrated to be useful for distinguishing a variety of classes using a wide range of methods. The research described ... -
The Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Fossil-Fuel Use in North America
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Refinements in the spatial and temporal resolution of North American fossil-fuel carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions provide additional information about anthropogenic aspects of the carbon cycle. In North America, the seasonal ... -
On Climate Impacts of a Potential Expansion of Urban Land in Europe
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Over the last two decades, a disproportional increase of urban land area in comparison with the population growth has been observed in many countries of Europe, and this trend is predicted to continue. The conversion of ... -
A Climatological Comparison of Radar and Ground Observations of Hail in Finland
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Two approaches to producing a hail climatology for Finland are compared. The first approach is based on 70 yr of hail reports from different sources (newspapers, storm spotters, and other volunteers). The second is derived ... -
Toward a Standard Procedure for Validation of Satellite-Derived Cloud Liquid Water Path: A Study with SEVIRI Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Differences between satellite-derived and ground-based values of cloud liquid water path (LWPsat and LWPgr, respectively) in validation studies are partly associated with the validation itself, in particular with scale ... -
Spatial Variation of the Regional Wind Field with Land–Sea Contrasts and Complex Topography
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)This study examines the spatial variation of the wind field observed in the coastal zone of southeast Korea with its complex terrain, using measurements from a regional network 75 km across and centered about Busan. Results ... -
The Bias and Error in Moment Estimators for Parameters of Drop Size Distribution Functions: Sampling from Gamma Distributions
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)This paper complements an earlier one that demonstrated the bias in the method-of-moments (MM) estimators frequently used to estimate parameters for drop size distribution (DSD) functions being ?fitted? to observed raindrop ...