Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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The Empirical Dependence of Tornadogenesis on Elevation Roughness: Historical Record Analysis Using Bayes’s Law in Arkansas
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)Recent research suggests that surface elevation variability may influence tornado activity, though separating this effect from reporting biases is difficult to do in observations. Here we employ Bayes?s law to calculate ... -
A Long-Term Study of Sea-Breeze Characteristics: A Case Study of the Coastal City of Adelaide
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)The sea-breeze characteristics of the Adelaide, Australia, coastline have been studied by applying a sea-breeze detection algorithm to 3- and 6-hourly meteorological records of near-surface and upper-air data at Adelaide ... -
Estimation of Tropical Cyclone Intensity in the North Atlantic and Northeastern Pacific Basins Using TRMM Satellite Passive Microwave Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)A statistical passive microwave intensity estimation (PMW-IE) algorithm for estimating the intensity of tropical cyclones (TCs) in the North Atlantic and northeastern and central Pacific basins is developed and tested. The ... -
Future Changes in Incident Surface Solar Radiation and Contributing Factors in India in CMIP5 Climate Model Simulations
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)To support the planning of future solar energy production in India, forthcoming changes in incoming surface solar radiation and the main physical factors contributing to the change were inferred from simulations performed ... -
A Modified Dual-Wavelength Technique for Ku- and Ka-Band Radar Rain Retrieval
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)To overcome a deficiency in the standard Ku- and Ka-band dual-wavelength radar technique, a modified version of the method is introduced. The deficiency arises from ambiguities in the estimate of the mass-weighted diameter ... -
Evaluation of Reanalyses over British Columbia. Part II: Daily and Extreme Precipitation
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)This study evaluates how well reanalyses represent daily and multiday accumulated precipitation (hereinafter daily PCP) over British Columbia, Canada (Part I evaluated 2-m temperature). Reanalyses are compared with ... -
Origins of Heavy Precipitation Biases in the TRMM PR and TMI Products Assessed with CloudSat and Reanalysis Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)This study aims to characterize the background physical processes in the development of those heavy precipitation clouds that contribute to the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) active and passive sensor differences. ... -
Heat Waves in Florida: Climatology, Trends, and Related Precipitation Events
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)Heat waves are increasing in frequency, duration, and intensity and are strongly linked to anthropogenic climate change. However, few studies have examined heat waves in Florida, despite an older population and increasingly ... -
Dual-Polarized Radar Coverage in Terminal Airspaces and Its Effect on Interpretation of Winter Weather Signatures: Current Capabilities and Future Recommendations
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)This is a feasibility study on the use of dual-polarized radars to infer icing in terminal airspaces (TASs) of commercial airports. The amount and quality of radar coverage in each TAS is quantified as a function of its ... -
A Model for U.S. Tornado Casualties Involving Interaction between Damage Path Estimates of Population Density and Energy Dissipation
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractA recent study showed the importance of tornado energy as a factor in a model for tornado deaths and injuries (casualties). The model was additive under the assumption of uniform threat. Here, we test two explicit ... -
A Climatology of Extreme South American Andean Cold Surges
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractCold surges represent one of several phenomena by which midlatitude features can modulate the atmosphere, both dynamically and thermodynamically, deep into the tropics. This study involves the construction of a ... -
Comparing CLIGEN-Generated Storm Patterns with 1-Minute and Hourly Precipitation Data from China
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractClimate Generator (CLIGEN) is a stochastic weather generator that has been widely used to generate daily precipitation and storm patterns for hydrological and erosion prediction models. Rainfall data with measurement ... -
Selecting Time Series Length to Moderate the Impact of Nonstationarity in Extreme Rainfall Analyses
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractObserved and projected increases in the frequency of extreme rainfall complicate the extreme value analyses of precipitation that are used to guide engineering design specifications, because conventional methods ... -
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Analyzing of Cloud Macroscopic Characteristics in the Shigatse Area of the Tibetan Plateau Using the Total-Sky Images
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractThe macroscopic characteristics of clouds in the Tibetan Plateau are crucial to understanding the local climatic conditions and their impact on the global climate and water vapor cycle. In this study, the variations ... -
Optimal Ranking Regime Analysis of U.S. Summer Temperature and Degree-Days: 1895–2015
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractThe optimal ranking regime (ORR) method was applied to mean summer maximum (TMXS) and mean summer minimum (TMNS) temperature and to cumulative summer cooling degree-days (CDDS) calculated from U.S. climate-division ... -
Evaluation of Reanalyses over British Columbia. Part I: Daily and Extreme 2-m Temperature
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractWeather-station data coverage, quality, and completeness across British Columbia, Canada, degrade outside of population centers and as one goes back in time. This data paucity motivates the search for the best ... -
Wind Gust Characterization at Wind Turbine Relevant Heights in Moderately Complex Terrain
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractImproved understanding of wind gusts in complex terrain is critically important to wind engineering and specifically the wind energy industry. Observational data from 3D sonic anemometers deployed at 3 and 65 m at ... -
On Different Microphysical Pathways to Convective Rainfall
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)ABSTRACTThe Convective Precipitation Experiment (COPE) documented the dynamical and microphysical evolution of convection in southwestern England for testing and improving quantitative precipitation forecasting. A strong ... -
Spatial Characteristics of Rain Fields Associated with Tropical Cyclones Landfalling over the Western Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractThe western Gulf Coast and Caribbean coast are regions that are highly vulnerable to precipitation associated with tropical cyclones (TCs). Defining the spatial dimensions of TC rain fields helps determine the ...