Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Downscaling Climate over Complex Terrain: High Finescale (<1000 m) Spatial Variation of Near-Ground Temperatures in a Montane Forested Landscape (Great Smoky Mountains)
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Landscape-driven microclimates in mountainous terrain pose significant obstacles to predicting the response of organisms to atmospheric warming, but few if any studies have documented the extent of such finescale variation ... -
On the Analysis of a Cloud Seeding Dataset over Tasmania
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)An analysis of cloud seeding activity for the period 1960?2005 over a hydroelectric catchment (target) area located in central Tasmania, Australia, is presented. The analysis is performed using a double ratio on monthly ... -
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The Frequency and Characteristics of Lake-Effect Precipitation Events Associated with the New York State Finger Lakes
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)This study presents a climatological analysis of the frequency and characteristics of lake-effect precipitation events that were initiated or enhanced by lakes within the New York State (NYS) Finger Lakes region for the ... -
Reconstructing the Past Wind Stresses over the Tropical Pacific Ocean from 1875 to 1947
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)An important step in understanding the climate system is simulating and studying the past climate variability, using oceanic models, atmospheric models, or both. Toward this goal, long-term wind stress data, as the forcing ... -
Impact of Urban Growth on Surface Climate: A Case Study in Oran, Algeria
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The authors develop a land use map discriminating urban surfaces from other cover types over a semiarid region in North Africa and use it in a land surface model to assess the impact of urbanized land on surface energy, ... -
Numerical Simulations of Local Circulation and Cumulus Generation over the Loess Plateau, China
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The Loess Plateau of China consists of dissected flat tablelands with steep gullies. To evaluate the effect of topography on local circulation and cumulus generation over the Loess Plateau, numerical simulations of atmospheric ... -
Errors in Estimating Raindrop Size Distribution Parameters Employing Disdrometer and Simulated Raindrop Spectra
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)There have been debates and differences of opinion over the validity of using drop size distribution (DSD) models to characterize precipitation microphysics and to retrieve DSD parameters from multiparameter radar measurements. ... -
Trade-Offs between Measurement Accuracy and Resolutions in Configuring Phased-Array Radar Velocity Scans for Ensemble-Based Storm-Scale Data Assimilation
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Assimilation experiments are carried out with simulated radar radial-velocity observations to examine the impacts of observation accuracy and resolutions on storm-scale wind assimilation with an ensemble square root filter ... -
Frontal Rainfall Observation by a Commercial Microwave Communication Network
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)A novel approach for reconstruction of rainfall spatial?temporal dynamics from a wireless microwave network is presented. It employs a stochastic space?time model based on a rainfall advection model, assimilated using a ... -
Real-Time Water Vapor Maps from a GPS Surface Network: Construction, Validation, and Applications
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)In this paper the construction of real-time integrated water vapor (IWV) maps from a surface network of global positioning system (GPS) receivers is presented. The IWV maps are constructed using a two-dimensional variational ... -
Evening Temperature Rises on Valley Floors and Slopes: Their Causes and Their Relationship to the Thermally Driven Wind System
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)At slope and valley floor sites in the Owens Valley of California, the late afternoon near-surface air temperature decline is often followed by a temporary temperature rise before the expected nighttime cooling resumes. ... -
Effect of Turbulence Models and Spatial Resolution on Resolved Velocity Structure and Momentum Fluxes in Large-Eddy Simulations of Neutral Boundary Layer Flow
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)This paper demonstrates the importance of high-quality subfilter-scale turbulence models in large-eddy simulations by evaluating the resolved-scale flow features that result from various closure models. The Advanced Regional ... -
Discontinuities due to Joining Precipitation Station Observations in Canada
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)When a climatological station is relocated or is closing, it is often possible to join the climate observations of a nearby site to create a longer time series. However, joining climate observations can sometimes introduce ... -
An Investigation of Warm-Season Spatial Rainfall Variability in Oklahoma City: Possible Linkages to Urbanization and Prevailing Wind
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)This study used 9 yr (1998?2006) of warm-season (June?September) mean daily cumulative rainfall data from both the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis and rain gauge stations ... -
Derivation of Nighttime Urban Air Temperatures Using a Satellite Thermal Image
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The aim of this study is to characterize the urban heat island (UHI) intensity in Hong Kong. The first objective is to explore the UHI intensity in Hong Kong by using the mobile transverse and remote sensing techniques. ... -
Model Representation of Local Air Quality Characteristics
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Daily (24 h) and hourly air quality data at several sites are used to examine the performance of the fifth-generation Pennsylvania State University?NCAR Mesoscale Model (MM5)?Community Multiscale Air Quality Model (CMAQ) ... -
Raindrop Size Distribution Modeling from a Statistical Rain Parameter Relation and Its Application to the TRMM Precipitation Radar Rain Retrieval Algorithm
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)A generalized method is presented to derive a ?two scale? raindrop size distribution (DSD) model over a spatial or temporal domain in which a statistical rain parameter relation exists. The two-scale model is generally ... -
Airmass Classification and Analysis of Aerosol Types at El Arenosillo (Spain)
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) site ?El Arenosillo,? equipped with a Cimel sun photometer, has been in operation since 2000. The data collected there are analyzed to establish an aerosol synoptic climatological ... -
Comparison of Ground-Based Radar and Geosynchronous Satellite Climatologies of Warm-Season Precipitation over the United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)Studies in the past several years have documented the climatology of warm-season precipitation-episode statistics (propagation speed, span, and duration) over the United States using a national composited radar dataset. ...