Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Atmospheric Dynamics and Ozone Cycle during Sea Breeze in a Mediterranean Complex Urbanized Coastal Site
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractPersistent high pressure conditions over the Mediterranean Basin favor the occurrence of sea breezes that can lead to ozone transport through complex recirculation patterns. These features were investigated during ... -
Bulk-Density Representations of Branched Planar Ice Crystals: Errors in the Polarimetric Radar Variables
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractRecent interest in interpreting polarimetric radar observations of ice and evaluating microphysical model output with these observations has highlighted the importance of accurately computing the scattering of ... -
Urban Heat Island Mitigation Effectiveness under Extreme Heat Conditions in the Suzhou–Wuxi–Changzhou Metropolitan Area, China
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractCool roofs and green roofs are two important methods used to mitigate the urban heat island (UHI) effect. The Weather Research and Forecasting Model was used to investigate the UHI effect and the effectiveness of ... -
Toward the Application of Decadal Climate Predictions
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractDecadal prediction is a relatively new branch of climate science that bridges the gap between seasonal climate forecasts and multidecadal-to-century projections of climate change. This paper develops a three-step ... -
Temporal Variability of the Charlotte (Sub)Urban Heat Island
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractA multiscale temporal analysis of the urban heat island (UHI) for a large, rapidly growing, subtropical city (Charlotte, North Carolina) is conducted using hourly surface observations from a regional network of 12 ... -
Daily Weather Types in February–June (1979–2016) and Temperature Variations in Tropical North Africa
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractThis study investigates to what extent weather types (WTs) computed over tropical North Africa and the tropical North Atlantic Ocean (40°W?40°E, 0°?30°N) are relevant for documenting intraseasonal and interannual ... -
Climatological Beam Propagation Conditions for China’s Weather Radar Network
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractThe vertical refractivity gradient (VRG) is critical to weather radar beam propagation. The most common method of calculating beam paths uses the 4/3 Earth radius model, which corresponds to standard refraction ... -
A Climatology of Southwest Indian Ocean Tropical Systems: Their Number, Tracks, Impacts, Sizes, Empirical Maximum Potential Intensity, and Intensity Changes
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractA 17-yr ?climatology? of tropical-system activity, track, size, and 24-h intensity change in the southwest Indian Ocean (SWIO) is developed and analyzed in comparison with other intensively studied basins such as ... -
Polarimetric Radar Relations for Quantification of Snow Based on Disdrometer Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractAccurate measurements of snow amounts by radar are very difficult to achieve. The inherent uncertainty in radar snow estimates that are based on the radar reflectivity factor Z is caused by the variability of snow ... -
Thermal Anomalies Detect Critical Global Land Surface Changes
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractMeasurements that link surface conditions and climate can provide critical information on important biospheric changes occurring in the Earth system. As the direct driving force of energy and water fluxes at the ... -
Marine Air Penetration in California’s Central Valley: Meteorological Drivers and the Impact of Climate Change
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractThis study focuses on one of the most common coastal phenomena within California?s San Francisco Bay Delta and Central Valley?marine air penetration (MAP) events, which are a broad category of meteorological features ... -
Mesoscale Simulations of Australian Direct Normal Irradiance, Featuring an Extreme Dust Event
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractDirect normal irradiance (DNI) is the main input for concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies?an important component in future energy scenarios. DNI forecast accuracy is sensitive to radiative transfer schemes ... -
Variations in Snow Crystal Riming and ZDR: A Case Analysis
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractA case study in terms of variations in differential reflectivity ZDR observed at X band and snow crystal riming is presented for a light-snow event that occurred near Greeley, Colorado, on 26?27 November 2015. In ... -
Parameterizing Unresolved Mesoscale Motions in Atmospheric Dispersion Models
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractIn atmospheric dispersion models driven by meteorological data from numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, it is necessary to include a parameterization for plume spread that is due to unresolved mesoscale ... -
A Statistical Study of Unusual Tracks of Tropical Cyclones near Taiwan Island
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractTropical cyclones (TCs) tend to change translation direction and speed when moving across Taiwan?s Central Mountain Range (CMR), which makes forecasting of landfalling points a challenging task. This study examines ... -
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Mitigation Options on Heat Stress for Sydney, Australia
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractGlobal warming, in combination with the urban heat island effect, is increasing the temperature in cities. These changes increase the risk of heat stress for millions of city dwellers. Given the large populations ... -
A Long-Term Overshooting Convective Cloud-Top Detection Database over Australia Derived from MTSAT Japanese Advanced Meteorological Imager Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)ABSTRACTA 10-yr geostationary (GEO) overshooting cloud-top (OT) detection database using Multifunction Transport Satellite (MTSAT) Japanese Advanced Meteorological Imager (JAMI) observations has been developed over the ... -
A Polarimetric Analysis of Ice Microphysical Processes in Snow, Using Quasi-Vertical Profiles
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractThis study implements a new quasi-vertical profile (QVP) methodology to investigate the microphysical evolution and significance of intriguing winter polarimetric signatures and their statistical correlations. QVPs ... -
Alexander Tall Tower! A Study of the Boundary Layer on the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractBecause of the harsh weather conditions on the Antarctic continent, year-round observations of the low-level boundary layer must be obtained via automated data acquisition systems. Alexander Tall Tower! is an ... -
Statistical Modeling of Extreme Precipitation with TRMM Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractThis paper improves upon an existing extreme precipitation monitoring system that is based on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) daily product (3B42) using new statistical models. The proposed system ...