Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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The Oklahoma Dispersion Model: Using the Gaussian Plume Model as an Operational Management Tool for Determining Near-Surface Dispersion Conditions across Oklahoma
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)The Oklahoma Dispersion Model (ODM) represents a current innovative application of the classic Gaussian plume model in an operational setting. Utilizing a statewide mesoscale automated weather station network (the Oklahoma ... -
Constructing Retrospective Gridded Daily Precipitation and Temperature Datasets for the Conterminous United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)This paper presents and evaluates a method for the construction of long-range and wide-area temporal spatial datasets of daily precipitation and temperature (maximum and minimum). This method combines the interpolation of ... -
Impact of an Updated Carbon Bond Mechanism on Predictions from the CMAQ Modeling System: Preliminary Assessment
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)An updated and expanded version of the Carbon Bond mechanism (CB05) has been incorporated into the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system to more accurately simulate wintertime, pristine, and high-altitude ... -
Comparative Evaluation of an Eulerian CFD and Gaussian Plume Models Based on Prairie Grass Dispersion Experiment
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)A theoretical and statistical comparison of a three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model with two Gaussian plume models is proposed on the Prairie Grass data field experiment for neutral conditions, using ... -
Air Quality Forecast Verification Using Satellite Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)NOAA?s operational geostationary satellite retrievals of aerosol optical depths (AODs) were used to verify National Weather Service developmental (research mode) particulate matter (PM2.5) predictions tested during the ... -
Modified RAMS-Urban Canopy Model for Heat Island Simulation in Chongqing, China
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)A single-layer urban canopy model was integrated into a nonhydrostatic meteorological model, the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS). In the new model, called RAMS-Urban Canopy (RAMS-UC), anthropogenic heat emission ... -
Impact of Domain Size on Modeled Ozone Forecast for the Northeastern United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)This study investigates the impact of model domain extent and the specification of lateral boundary conditions on the forecast quality of air pollution constituents in a specific region of interest. A developmental version ... -
Introducing a Partitioning Mechanism for PAHs into the Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System and Its Application to Simulating the Transport of Benzo(a)pyrene over Europe
(American Meteorological Society, 2007)Into the Community Multiscale Air Quality modeling system (CMAQ) that is widely used for simulating the transport and fate of air pollutants, a new module was inserted that accounts for the partitioning of semivolatile ... -
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Observations of the Effects of Atmospheric Stability on Turbulence Statistics Deep within an Urban Street Canyon
(American Meteorological Society, 2007)Data obtained in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, during the Joint Urban 2003 atmospheric dispersion study have been analyzed to investigate the effects of upstream atmospheric stability on turbulence statistics in an ... -
Along-Valley Structure of Daytime Thermally Driven Flows in the Wipp Valley
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)High-resolution Doppler lidar observations obtained during the Mesoscale Alpine Program (MAP) 1999 field campaign are used to investigate the along-valley structure of daytime valley flows in the Wipp Valley, Austria. The ... -
On Estimating Dry Deposition Rates in Complex Terrain
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)In complex terrain, horizontal advection and filtration through a canopy can add substantially to the vertical diffusion component assumed to be the dominant transfer mechanism in conventional deposition velocity formulations. ... -
Properties of the Wind Field within the Oklahoma City Park Avenue Street Canyon. Part I: Mean Flow and Turbulence Statistics
(American Meteorological Society, 2007)Velocity data were obtained from sonic anemometer measurements within an east?west-running street canyon located in the urban core of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, during the Joint Urban 2003 field campaign. These data were ... -
Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulations of Plume Dispersion in Urban Oklahoma City
(American Meteorological Society, 2007)A 3D computational fluid dynamics study using Reynolds-averaged Navier?Stokes modeling was conducted and validated with field data from the Joint Urban 2003 dispersion study in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The modeled flow ... -
A Validation of FEM3MP with Joint Urban 2003 Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2007)Under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model for simulating airflow and dispersion of chemical/biological agents released in ... -
Properties of the Wind Field within the Oklahoma City Park Avenue Street Canyon. Part II: Spectra, Cospectra, and Quadrant Analyses
(American Meteorological Society, 2007)Velocity data were obtained within Park Avenue in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, using three-dimensional sonic anemometers under unstable atmospheric conditions. These data are used to produce velocity spectra, cospectra, and ... -
Vertical Tracer Concentration Profiles Measured during the Joint Urban 2003 Dispersion Study
(American Meteorological Society, 2007)An atmospheric tracer dispersion study known as Joint Urban 2003 was conducted in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, during July of 2003. As part of this field program, vertical concentration profiles were measured at approximately ... -
Modeling Turbulent Flow in an Urban Central Business District
(American Meteorological Society, 2007)The Realistic Urban Spread and Transport of Intrusive Contaminants (RUSTIC) model has been developed as a simplified computational fluid dynamics model with a k?? turbulence model to be used to provide moderately fast ... -
Urban Dispersion Modeling: Comparison with Single-Building Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2007)Two models have been developed to predict airflow and dispersion in urban environments. The first model, the Realistic Urban Spread and Transport of Intrusive Contaminants (RUSTIC) model, is a fast-running urban airflow ... -
Evaluation of a Fast-Running Urban Dispersion Modeling System Using Joint Urban 2003 Field Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2007)An urban dispersion modeling system was evaluated using the Joint Urban 2003 field data. The system consists of a fast-running urban airflow model (RUSTIC, for Realistic Urban Spread and Transport of Intrusive Contaminants) ...