Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Analysis of Rain Types and Their Z–R Relationships at Different Locations in the High Andes of Southern Ecuador
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractInformation on the spatiotemporal rainfall occurrence, its microphysical characteristics, and its reflectivity?rainfall (Z?R) relations required to provide rainfall mapping based on rain radar data is limited for ... -
The Sensitivity of Urban Meteorology to Soil Moisture Boundary Conditions: A Case Study in Melbourne, Australia
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractThe sensitivity of near-surface urban meteorological conditions to three different soil moisture initialization experiments under heat-wave conditions is investigated for the city of Melbourne, Australia. The Weather ... -
Seasonal Analysis of Cloud Objects in the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) Model Using Object-Based Verification
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractIn this study, object-based verification using the method for object-based diagnostic evaluation (MODE) is used to assess the accuracy of cloud-cover forecasts from the experimental High-Resolution Rapid Refresh ... -
Examining the Climatology of Shortwave Radiation in the Northeastern United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractAs demand for renewable energy grows, so does the need for an improved understanding of renewable energy sources. Paradoxically, the climate change mitigation strategy of fossil fuel divestment is in itself subject ... -
Projections of Twenty-First-Century Climate Extremes for Alaska via Dynamical Downscaling and Quantile Mapping
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractClimate change is expected to alter the frequencies and intensities of at least some types of extreme events. Although Alaska is already experiencing an amplified response to climate change, studies of extreme event ... -
Low-Level Jets over Utö, Finland, Based on Doppler Lidar Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractOver two years of meteorological observations from Utö, a small island in the Finnish outer archipelago in the Baltic Sea, were used to investigate the occurrence and characteristics of low-level jets (LLJs) and ... -
Improving Forecasts of Biomass Burning Emissions with the Fire Weather Index
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractIn the absence of a dynamical fire model that could link the emissions to the weather dynamics and the availability of fuel, atmospheric composition models, such as the European Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring ... -
Recent Changes in U.S. Regional Heat Wave Characteristics in Observations and Reanalyses
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractHumidity is a key determinant of heat wave impacts, but studies investigating changes in extreme heat events have not differentiated between events characterized by high temperatures and those characterized by ... -
BME Spatiotemporal Estimation of Annual Precipitation and Detection of Drought Hazard Clusters Using Space–Time Scan Statistics in the Yun-Gui-Guang Region, Mainland China
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractDrought disasters cause great economic losses in China every year, especially in its southwest, and they have had a major influence on economic development, lives, and property. In this study, precipitation and ... -
The Mean and Turbulent Properties of a Wildfire Convective Plume
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractThe time-mean and time-varying smoke and velocity structure of a wildfire convective plume is examined using a high-resolution scanning Doppler lidar. The mean plume is shown to exhibit the archetypal form of a ... -
Combined Space and Ground Radars for Improving Quantitative Precipitation Estimations in the Eastern Downstream Region of the Tibetan Plateau. Part I: Variability in the Vertical Structure of Precipitation in ChuanYu Analyzed from Long-Term Spaceborne Obs
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractThis study presents a statistical analysis of the variability of the vertical structure of precipitation in the eastern downstream region of the Tibetan Plateau as measured by the Precipitation Radar (PR) on the ... -
Winter Wind Regimes over Israel Using Self-Organizing Maps
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractThe aim of this study is to objectively define and automatically reconstruct surface wind regimes over Israel. Unlike other previous studies that subjectively examined case studies or applied the semiobjective ... -
Statistical Downscaling of a High-Resolution Precipitation Reanalysis Using the Analog Ensemble Method
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractThis study explores the first application of an analog-based method to downscale precipitation estimates from a regional reanalysis. The utilized analog ensemble (AnEn) approach defines a metric with which a set ... -
Hail-Detection Algorithm for the GPM Core Observatory Satellite Sensors
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractBy exploiting an abundant number of extreme storms observed simultaneously by the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission Core Observatory satellite?s suite of sensors and by the ground-based S-band Next ... -
Connecting the Failure of K Theory inside and above Vegetation Canopies and Ejection–Sweep Cycles by a Large-Eddy Simulation
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractParameterizations of biosphere?atmosphere interaction processes in climate models and other hydrological applications require characterization of turbulent transport of momentum and scalars between vegetation ... -
Evaluation of Thunderstorm Predictors for Finland Using Reanalyses and Neural Networks
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractThis work evaluates numerous thunderstorm predictors and investigates the use of artificial neural networks (ANNs) for identifying occurrences of thunderstorms in reanalysis data. Environmental conditions favorable ... -
Year-Long Vertical Velocity Statistics Derived from Doppler Lidar Data for the Continental Convective Boundary Layer
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractOne year of coherent Doppler lidar data collected at the U.S. Department of Energy?s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement site in Oklahoma was analyzed to provide profiles of vertical velocity variance, skewness, and ... -
The More Extreme Nature of North American Monsoon Precipitation in the Southwestern United States as Revealed by a Historical Climatology of Simulated Severe Weather Events
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractLong-term changes in North American monsoon (NAM) precipitation intensity in the southwestern United States are evaluated through the use of convective-permitting model simulations of objectively identified severe ... -
Case Study and Climatological Analysis of Upper-Tropospheric Jet Stream and Stratosphere–Troposphere Exchanges Using VHF Profilers and Radionuclide Measurements in France
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractThe authors present a climatological analysis of tropospheric horizontal wind profiles and jet stream events using long series of wind profiles from two VHF profilers located in France: Lannemezan (2001?14) and ... -
Wind-Blown Dust Modeling Using a Backward-Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractPresented here is a new dust modeling framework that uses a backward-Lagrangian particle dispersion model coupled with a dust emission model, both driven by meteorological data from the Weather Research and Forecasting ...