Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Comparison of TRMM-Derived Rainfall Products for General and Extreme Rains over the Maritime Continent
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)roperties of the rain estimation differences between Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) precipitation radar (PR) 2A25, Microwave Imager (TMI) 2A12, and TRMM Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) 3B42 are ... -
Bayesian Retrievals of Vertically Resolved Cloud Particle Size Distribution Properties
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)etrievals of liquid cloud properties from remote sensing observations by necessity assume sufficient information is contained in the measurements, and in the prior knowledge of the cloudy state, to uniquely determine a ... -
Foehn-like wind with a traditional foehn effect plus dry diabatic heating from the ground surface contribute to high temperatures at the end of a leeward area
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)oehn wind is an important factor in the occurrence of many extreme high temperature (EHT) events in geographically complex regions. In this study, we verified the hypothesis that a foehn-like wind contributes to high ... -
Comparison of Satellite, Model, and radiosonde Derived convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) in the southern great plains region
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)onvective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) is one of the physical quantities used by operational meteorologists when issuing severe weather convective watches and warnings. Recent advances in satellite technology could ... -
High-resolution dynamical downscaling of seasonal precipitation forecasts for the Hanjiang Basin in China using the Weather Research and Forecasting model
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)anagement of water resources may benefit from seasonal precipitation forecasts but for obtaining high enough resolution dynamical downscaling is necessary. This study investigated the downscaling capability of the Weather ... -
Daytime Top-of-the-Atmosphere Cirrus Cloud Radiative Forcing Properties at Singapore
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)aytime top-of-the-atmosphere (TOA) cirrus cloud radiative forcing (CRF) is estimated for cirrus clouds observed in ground-based lidar observations at Singapore in 2010 and 2011. Estimates are derived both over land and ... -
Diurnal variation of summer precipitation across the central Tianshan Mountain
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)he climatic features of the diurnally varying summer precipitation over and around the central Tianshan Mountain are investigated. Both the hourly rainfall data observed at eight stations along a transect across the mountain ... -
Analyzing Temperature and Precipitation Influences on Yield Distributions of Canola and Spring Wheat in Saskatchewan
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)he IPCC indicates that global mean temperature increases of 2°C or more above preindustrial levels negatively affect such crops as wheat. Canadian climate model projections show warmer temperatures and variable rainfall ... -
Assessing the Impact of Surface and Wind Profiler Data on Fog Forecasting Using WRF 3DVAR: An OSSE Study on a Dense Fog Event over North China
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)ecause fog is a high-impact weather phenomenon, there has been increased demand for its accurate prediction. Both surface data and wind profiler data possess great potential for improved fog prediction. This study aimed ... -
The Impact of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on Winter and Early Spring U.S. Tornado Outbreaks
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)n recent years, the potential of seasonal outlooks for tornadoes has attracted the attention of researchers. Previous studies on this topic have focused mainly on the influence of global circulation patterns (e.g., El Niño ... -
Test of a Modified Infrared-Only ABI Cloud Mask Algorithm for AHI Radiance Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)ssimilation of infrared channel radiances from geostationary imagers requires an algorithm that can separate cloudy radiances from clear-sky ones. An infrared-only cloud mask (CM) algorithm has been developed using the ... -
Assimilation of multinational radar reflectivity data in a mesoscale model: A proof of concept
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)adar reflectivity observations have proven to be beneficial for improving the skill of numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. A few countries around the world use radar reflectivity observations in their operational ... -
What Can We Conclude about the Real Aspect Ratios of Ice Particle Aggregates from Two-Dimensional Images?
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)simple numerical experiment was performed to investigate the result published in many papers that measurements indicate that aggregates may be well represented as oblate spheroids with mean aspect ratio (semiminor axis to ... -
Climatology of Westerly Wind Events in the Lee of the Sierra Nevada
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)5-yr climatology of westerly wind events in Owens Valley, California, is derived from data measured by a mesoscale network of 16 automatic weather stations. Thermally driven up- and down-valley flows are found to account ... -
Winter Precipitation Liquid–Ice Phase Transitions Revealed with Polarimetric Radar and 2DVD Observations in Central Oklahoma
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)bservations and analysis of an ice?liquid phase precipitation event, collected with an S-band polarimetric KOUN radar and a two-dimensional video disdrometer (2DVD) in central Oklahoma on 20 January 2007, are presented. ... -
A MODIS-derived Value-Added Climatology of Maritime Cloud Liquid Water Path That Conserves Solar Reflectance
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)dataset is generated from a method to retrieve distributions of cloud liquid water path over partially cloudy scenes. The method was introduced in Foster et al. (2011), which described the theory and provided test cases. ... -
Using Synthetic Brightness Temperatures to Address Uncertainties in Cloud-Top-Height Verification
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)loud-top verification is inherently difficult because of large uncertainties in the estimates of observed cloud-top height. Misplacement of cloud top associated with transmittance through optically thin cirrus is one of ... -
Intraurban Temperature Variability in Baltimore
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)ow much does minimum daily air temperature vary within neighborhoods exhibiting high land surface temperature (LST), and does this variability affect agreement with the nearest weather station? To answer these questions, ... -
Dependence of the Ice Water Content and Snowfall Rate on Temperature, Globally: Comparison of in Situ Observations, Satellite Active Remote Sensing Retrievals, and Global Climate Model Simulations
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)loud ice microphysical properties measured or estimated from in situ aircraft observations are compared with global climate models and satellite active remote sensor retrievals. Two large datasets, with direct measurements ... -
Landsat Identification of Tornado Damage by Land Cover and an Evaluation of Damage Recovery in Forests
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)ultispectral satellite imagery provides a spaceborne perspective on tornado damage identification; however, few studies have explored how tornadoes alter the spectral signature of different land-cover types. In part 1 of ...