Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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A Probabilistic Radar Forward Model for Branched Planar Ice Crystals
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractPolarimetric radar measurements provide information about ice particle growth and offer the potential to evaluate and better constrain ice microphysical models. To achieve these goals, one must map the ice particle ... -
Weather Radar Network Benefit Model for Tornadoes
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractA monetized tornado benefit model is developed for arbitrary weather radar network configurations. Geospatial regression analyses indicate that improvement of two key radar parameters?fraction of vertical space ... -
Improved Parameterization of Ice Particle Size Distributions Using Uncorrelated Mass Spectrum Parameters: Results from GCPEx
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractSatellite retrieval algorithms and model microphysical parameterizations require guidance from observations to improve the representation of ice-phase microphysical quantities and processes. Here, a parameterization ... -
Evaluation of the Ventilation Index in Complex Terrain: A Dispersion Modeling Study
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractIn this study, the Flexible Particle (FLEXPART)-WRF, a Lagrangian particle dispersion model, is employed to simulate pollutant dispersion in and near the Lehigh Gap, a gap in a prominent ridgeline in eastern ... -
Observations of Turbulent Heat and Momentum Fluxes during Wildland Fires in Forested Environments
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractTurbulent fluxes of heat and momentum in the vicinity of wildland fires contribute to the redistribution of heat and momentum in the fire environment, which in turn can affect the heating of fuels, fire behavior, ... -
Application of the Cell Perturbation Method to Large-Eddy Simulations of a Real Urban Area
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractWith the continuous increase in computing capabilities, large-eddy simulation (LES) has recently gained popularity in applications related to flow, turbulence, and dispersion in the urban atmospheric boundary layer ... -
A Numerical Study of “Hijikawa-Arashi”: A Thermally Driven Gap Wind Visualized by Nocturnal Fog
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractA renowned local wind in Japan, ?Hijikawa-Arashi,? is a thermally driven nocturnal gap wind accompanied by fog. The wind is visually identified by the fog along the valley of the Hijikawa River between the Ozu basin ... -
Implications of a Climate-Changed Atmosphere on Cool-Climate Viticulture
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractThe impact of anthropogenic global warming on viticulture has been thoroughly studied. However, many of the climate projections are limited by the resolution of the models that cannot resolve mesoscale weather ... -
Response of Extreme Precipitation to Urbanization over the Netherlands
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractKnowledge of the response of extreme precipitation to urbanization is essential to ensure societal preparedness for the extreme events caused by climate change. To quantify this response, this study scales extreme ... -
Subsampling Impact on the Climate Change Signal over Poland Based on Simulations from Statistical and Dynamical Downscaling
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)ABSTRACTMost impact studies using downscaled climate data as input assume that the selection of few global climate models (GCMs) representing the largest spread covers the likely range of future changes. This study shows ... -
An Investigation of Cold-Season Short-Wave Troughs in the Great Lakes Region and Their Concurrence with Lake-Effect Clouds
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractThe downwind shores of the Laurentian Great Lakes region often receive prolific amounts of lake-effect snowfall during the cold season (October?March). The location and intensity of this snowfall can be influenced ... -
Local-Scale Valley Wind Retrieval Using an Artificial Neural Network Applied to Routine Weather Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractWe hereby present a new method with which to nowcast a thermally driven, downvalley wind using an artificial neural network (ANN) based on remote observations. The method allows the retrieval of wind speed and ... -
Global Patterns of Crop Production Losses Associated with Droughts from 1983 to 2009
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractDroughts represent an important type of climate extreme that reduces crop production and food security. Although this fact is well known, the global geographic pattern of drought-driven reductions in crop production ... -
Ambient Factors Controlling the Wintertime Precipitation Distribution across Mountain Ranges in the Interior Western United States. Part II: Changes in Orographic Precipitation Distribution in a Pseudo–Global Warming Simulation
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractTwo high-resolution (4 km) regional climate simulations over a 10-yr period are conducted to study the changes in wintertime precipitation distribution across mountain ranges in the interior western United States ... -
Near-Real-Time Surface-Based CAPE from Merged Hyperspectral IR Satellite Sounder and Surface Meteorological Station Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractNear-real-time satellite-derived temperature and moisture soundings provide information about the changing atmospheric vertical thermodynamic structure occurring between successive routine National Weather Service ... -
Characteristics of the Sea-Breeze Circulation in the Pearl River Delta Region and Its Dynamical Diagnosis
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractThe Pearl River delta (PRD) region has experienced rapid economic development since the 1980s and has become one of the world?s largest industrial zones and metropolitan areas. Previous studies have shown that the ... -
Doppler Radar Measurements of Spatial Turbulence Intensity in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractRemote sensing instruments that scan have the ability to provide high-resolution spatial measurements of atmospheric boundary layer winds across a region. However, the time required to collect the volume of ... -
Turbulence Variations in the Upper Troposphere in Tropical Cyclones from NOAA G-IV Flight-Level Vertical Acceleration Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractThe NOAA G-IV aircraft routinely measures vertical aircraft acceleration from the inertial navigation system at 1 Hz. The data provide a measure of turbulence on a 250-m horizontal scale over a layer from 12.8- to ... -
Modeling Road Surface Temperature from Air Temperature and Geographical Parameters—Implication for the Application of Floating Car Data in a Road Weather Forecast Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractPrecise forecasts of road surface temperature (RST) and road conditions allow winter roads to be maintained efficiently. The upcoming ?big data? application known as ?floating car data? (FCD) provides the opportunity ... -
Automated Mapping of Convective Clouds (AMCC) Thermodynamical, Microphysical, and CCN Properties from SNPP/VIIRS Satellite Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractThe advent of the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on board the Suomi NPP (SNPP) satellite made it possible to retrieve a new class of convective cloud properties and the aerosols that they ingest. ...