Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
Now showing items 2521-2540 of 2722
-
Evaluation of Satellite Estimates of Land Surface Temperature from GOES over the United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)A comprehensive evaluation of split-window and triple-window algorithms to estimate land surface temperature (LST) from Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) that were previously described by Sun and ... -
Finescale Evaluation of Drought in a Tropical Setting: Case Study in Sri Lanka
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)In regions of climatic heterogeneity, finescale assessment of drought risk is needed for policy making and drought management, mitigation, and adaptation. The relationship between drought relief payments (a proxy for drought ... -
Some Influences of Background Flow Conditions on the Generation of Turbulence due to Gravity Wave Breaking above Deep Convection
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)Deep moist convection generates turbulence in the clear air above and around developing clouds, penetrating convective updrafts and mature thunderstorms. This turbulence can be due to shearing instabilities caused by strong ... -
A Local Ensemble Prediction System for Fog and Low Clouds: Construction, Bayesian Model Averaging Calibration, and Validation
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)At main international airports, air traffic safety and economic issues related to poor visibility conditions are crucial. Meteorologists face the challenge of supplying airport authorities with accurate forecasts of fog ... -
Characteristics of Vertical Circulation in the Convective Boundary Layer over the Huaihe River Basin in China in the Early Summer of 2004
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)The purpose of this study is to clarify the characteristics of the convective boundary layer (CBL) over a humid terrestrial area, the Huaihe River basin in China, which is covered by a large, nearly flat plain with uniform ... -
A Modification to the NOAH LSM to Simulate Heat Mitigation Strategies in the New York City Metropolitan Area
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)A new approach to simulating the urban environment with a mesocale model has been developed to identify efficient strategies for mitigating increases in surface air temperatures associated with the urban heat island (UHI). ... -
Estimation of Rainfall Based on the Results of Polarimetric Echo Classification
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)The quality of polarimetric radar rainfall estimation is investigated for a broad range of distances from the polarimetric prototype of the Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D). The results of polarimetric ... -
Bayesian Inference and Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling to Reconstruct a Contaminant Source on a Continental Scale
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)A methodology combining Bayesian inference with Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling is applied to a real accidental radioactive release that occurred on a continental scale at the end of May 1998 near Algeciras, Spain. ... -
A Cautionary Note on the Use of Nonparametric Bootstrap for Estimating Uncertainties in Extreme-Value Models
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)The parametric and nonparametric approaches to the bootstrap are compared as to their performance in estimating uncertainties in extreme-value models. Simulation experiments make use of several combinations of true and ... -
An Investigation of the Slope–Shape Relation for Gamma Raindrop Size Distribution
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)The gamma drop size distribution (DSD) has been widely used in the meteorological community for years to model observed DSD. It has been found that the relation between the slope (?) and shape (?) parameters of the gamma ... -
Mesoscale Simulations of the Land Surface Effects of Historical Logging in a Moist Continental Climate Regime
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)An enhanced knowledge of the feedbacks from land surface changes on regional climates is of great importance in the attribution of climate change. To explore the effects of deforestation on a midlatitude climate regime, ... -
Development of a Land Surface Model Including Cloud Water Deposition on Vegetation
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)A land surface model including cloud (fog) water deposition on vegetation was developed to better predict the heat and water exchanges between the biosphere and atmosphere. A new scheme to calculate cloud water deposition ... -
Statistical Characteristics of Daily Precipitation: Comparisons of Gridded and Point Datasets
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)Gridding of daily precipitation data alleviates many of the limitations of data that are derived from point observations, such as problems associated with missing data and the lack of spatial coverage. As a result, gridded ... -
Application of an Adaptive Nudging Scheme in Air Quality Forecasting in China
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)A major challenge for air quality forecasters is to reduce the uncertainty of air pollution emission inventory. Error in the emission data is a primary source of error in air quality forecasts, much like the effect of error ... -
Derivation of Effective Aerodynamic Surface Roughness in Urban Areas from Airborne Lidar Terrain Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)An automated technique was developed that uses only airborne lidar terrain data to derive the necessary parameters for calculation of effective aerodynamic surface roughness in urban areas. The technique provides parameters ... -
A Comparison Study of Three Polar Grids
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)The circumference of a latitude circle decreases toward the Poles, making it difficult to present meteorological field variables on equally spaced grids with respect to latitude and longitude because of data aggregation. ... -
Accounting for Autocorrelation in Detecting Mean Shifts in Climate Data Series Using the Penalized Maximal t or F Test
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)This study proposes an empirical approach to account for lag-1 autocorrelation in detecting mean shifts in time series of white or red (first-order autoregressive) Gaussian noise using the penalized maximal t test or the ... -
Analysis of Video Disdrometer and Polarimetric Radar Data to Characterize Rain Microphysics in Oklahoma
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)In this paper, data from three 2-dimensional video disdrometers (2DVDs) and an S-band polarimetric radar are used to characterize rain microphysics in Oklahoma. Sampling errors from the 2DVD measurements are quantified ... -
Characteristics of Summer Convective Systems Initiated over the Tibetan Plateau. Part I: Origin, Track, Development, and Precipitation
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)Summer convective systems (CSs) initiated over the Tibetan Plateau identified by the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) deep convection database and associated Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission ... -
Development of an Aerosol Retrieval Method: Description and Preliminary Tests
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)A cloud-nucleating aerosol retrieval method was developed. It allows the estimation of ice-forming nuclei and cloud condensation nuclei (IFN and CCN) for regions in which boundary layer clouds prevail. The method is based ...