Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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An Inferred Climatology of Icing Conditions Aloft, Including Supercooled Large Drops. Part I: Canada and the Continental United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2007)Because of a lack of regular, direct measurements, little information is available about the frequency and spatial and temporal distribution of icing conditions aloft, including supercooled large drops (SLD). Research ... -
Flood Fatalities in the United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)This study compiles a nationwide database of flood fatalities for the contiguous United States from 1959 to 2005. Assembled data include the location of fatalities, age and gender of victims, activity and/or setting of ... -
Cluster Sequencing to Analyze Synoptic Transitions Affecting Regional Ozone
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)Synoptic conditions are known to strongly influence mesoscale flows and hence local ozone levels in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Sets of individual days sharing certain combinations of synoptic features ... -
An Evaluation of a Diagnostic Wind Model (CALMET)
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-approved diagnostic wind model [California Meteorological Model (CALMET)] was evaluated during a typical lake-breeze event under fair weather conditions in the Chicago region. ... -
Testing IWC Retrieval Methods Using Radar and Ancillary Measurements with In Situ Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)Vertical profiles of ice water content (IWC) can now be derived globally from spaceborne cloud satellite radar (CloudSat) data. Integrating these data with Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation ... -
60- to 1-Min Rainfall-Rate Conversion: Comparison of Existing Prediction Methods with Data Obtained in the Southeast Asia Region
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)Rainfall-rate statistics are frequently derived on the basis of rain gauge recordings with effective integration times of 10 min or longer. The conversion of such data to equivalent statistics for an effective integration ... -
The Impacts of Indirect Soil Moisture Assimilation and Direct Surface Temperature and Humidity Assimilation on a Mesoscale Model Simulation of an Indian Monsoon Depression
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)This study investigates the impact of the Flux-Adjusting Surface Data Assimilation System (FASDAS) and the four-dimensional data assimilation (FDDA) using analysis nudging on the simulation of a monsoon depression that ... -
Climatology of Hail in China: 1961–2005
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)A previous hail climatology of China was based upon observations during 1951?60. An effort has been made in this study to update this hail climatology in China with the use of a much longer record of observations from 1961 ... -
Evaluation of Cloud-Phase Retrieval Methods for SEVIRI on Meteosat-8 Using Ground-Based Lidar and Cloud Radar Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)Three cloud-phase determination algorithms from passive satellite imagers are explored to assess their suitability for climate monitoring purposes in midlatitude coastal climate zones. The algorithms are the Moderate ... -
Comparison of Gridded Multisatellite Rainfall Estimates with Gridded Gauge Rainfall over West Africa
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)Two monthly gridded precipitation datasets of the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP; the multisatellite product) and the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) Variability Analysis of Surface Climate ... -
Development of a Global Infrared Land Surface Emissivity Database for Application to Clear Sky Sounding Retrievals from Multispectral Satellite Radiance Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)A global database of infrared (IR) land surface emissivity is introduced to support more accurate retrievals of atmospheric properties such as temperature and moisture profiles from multispectral satellite radiance ... -
An Urban Parameterization for a Global Climate Model. Part I: Formulation and Evaluation for Two Cities
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)Urbanization, the expansion of built-up areas, is an important yet less-studied aspect of land use/land cover change in climate science. To date, most global climate models used to evaluate effects of land use/land cover ... -
An Urban Parameterization for a Global Climate Model. Part II: Sensitivity to Input Parameters and the Simulated Urban Heat Island in Offline Simulations
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)In a companion paper, the authors presented a formulation and evaluation of an urban parameterization designed to represent the urban energy balance in the Community Land Model. Here the robustness of the model is tested ... -
High Cloud Properties from Three Years of MODIS Terra and Aqua Collection-4 Data over the Tropics
(American Meteorological Society, 2007)This study surveys the optical and microphysical properties of high (ice) clouds over the Tropics (30°S?30°N) over a 3-yr period from September 2002 through August 2005. The analyses are based on the gridded level-3 cloud ... -
The Analysis of Typhoon Structures Using Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit Data and Its Application to Prediction
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)In this study, the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) data are used to retrieve the temperature and velocity fields of typhoons and assimilate them with the three-dimensional variational data assimilation (3DVAR) ... -
Forcing Mechanisms for Washoe Zephyr—A Daytime Downslope Wind System in the Lee of the Sierra Nevada
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)This paper investigates the formation mechanisms for a local wind phenomenon known as Washoe Zephyr that occurs frequently in the lee of the Sierra Nevada. Unlike the typical thermally driven slope flows with upslope wind ... -
The Berry and Reinhardt Autoconversion Parameterization: A Digest
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)The simplified version of the Berry and Reinhardt parameterization used for initiating rain from cloud droplets is presented and is compared with 12 other versions of itself from the literature. Many of the versions that ... -
Drought Recurrence and Seasonal Rainfall Prediction in the Río Yaqui Basin, Mexico
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)A statistical approach is used to explore the variability of precipitation and meteorological drought in Mexico?s Río Yaqui basin on seasonal-to-decadal time scales. For this purpose, a number of custom datasets have been ... -
Interaction of Nocturnal Low-Level Jets with Urban Geometries as Seen in Joint Urban 2003 Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)Because accurate modeling of atmospheric flows in urban environments requires sophisticated representation of complex urban geometries, much work has been devoted to treatment of the urban surface. However, the importance ... -
Model Calculations of Solar Spectral Irradiance in the 3.7-μm Band for Earth Remote Sensing Applications
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)Since the launch of the first Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) instrument aboard the Television and Infrared Observational Satellite (TIROS-N), measurements in the 3.7-?m atmospheric window have been exploited ...