Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Spatiotemporal Assessment of Drought Related to Soybean Production and Sensitivity Analysis in Northeast China
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)rought is a typical disaster in the main soybean production area of northeast China. The spatiotemporal variations of drought related to soybean production based on a crop water deficit index (CWDI) and sensitivity to ... -
Pacific Hurricane Landfalls on Mexico and SST
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)statistical model of northeastern Pacific Ocean tropical cyclones (TCs) is developed and used to estimate hurricane landfall rates along the coast of Mexico. Mean annual landfall rates for 1971?2014 are compared with mean ... -
Evaluation of Parameterizations of Incoming Longwave Radiation in the High-Mountain Region of the Tibetan Plateau
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)ccurate evaluations of incoming longwave radiation (Lin) parameterization have practical implications for glacier and river runoff changes in high-mountain regions of the Tibetan Plateau (TP). To identify potential means ... -
Large-Eddy Simulations of the Impact of Ground-Based Glaciogenic Seeding on Shallow Orographic Convection: A Case Study
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)his study uses the WRF large-eddy simulation model at 100-m resolution to examine the impact of ground-based glaciogenic seeding on shallow (~2 km deep), cold-based convection producing light snow showers over the Sierra ... -
Modeling Solar Irradiance and Solar PV Power Output to Create a Resource Assessment Using Linear Multiple Multivariate Regression
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he increased use of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells as energy sources on electric grids has created the need for more accessible solar irradiance and power production estimates for use in power modeling software. In the ... -
Estimating Tropical Cyclone Integrated Kinetic Energy with the CYGNSS Satellite Constellation
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) constellation is designed to provide observations of surface wind speed in and near the inner core of tropical cyclones with high temporal resolution throughout the ... -
Solar Irradiance Nowcasting Case Studies near Sacramento
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he Sun4Cast solar power forecasting system, designed to predict solar irradiance and power generation at solar farms, is composed of several component models operating on both the nowcasting (0?6 h) and day-ahead forecast ... -
A Multialgorithm Reanalysis-Based Freezing-Precipitation Dataset for Climate Studies in the South-Central United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)reezing precipitation, including freezing rain, freezing drizzle, and ice pellets, presents substantial hazards to transportation, energy, and infrastructure. Most quantitative climate-length (>30 years) datasets for ... -
Understanding the Sources of Satellite Passive Microwave Rainfall Retrieval Systematic Errors Over Land
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)nalyses of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite rainfall estimates reveal a substantial disagreement between its active [Precipitation Radar (PR)] and passive [TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI)] sensors over ... -
Evaluating Four Remote Sensing Methods for Estimating Surface Air Temperature on a Regional Scale
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)urface air temperature is a basic meteorological variable to monitor the environment and assess climate change. Four remote sensing methods?the temperature?vegetation index (TVX), the univariate linear regression method, ... -
Polarimetric Signatures of Midlatitude Warm-Rain Precipitation Events
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)recipitation events in which rainfall is generated primarily below the freezing level via warm-rain processes have traditionally presented a significant challenge for radar and satellite quantitative precipitation estimation ... -
A Global Multilayer Cloud Identification with POLDER/PARASOL
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)he detection of multilayer cloud situations is important for satellite retrieval algorithms and for many climate-related applications. In this paper, the authors describe an algorithm based on the exploitation of the ... -
Simulated and Observed Surface Energy Fluxes and Resulting Playa Breezes during the MATERHORN Field Campaigns
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)eather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model simulations of the autumn 2012 and spring 2013 Mountain Terrain Atmospheric Modeling and Observations Program (MATERHORN) field campaigns are validated against observations of ... -
Characterizing Ventilation and Exposure in Street Canyons Using Lagrangian Particles
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)he residence time measures the rate at which a pollutant escapes from a region of interest. Previous studies of urban ventilation have estimated the mean residence time from Eulerian data by assuming a spatially homogeneous ... -
Linear Error Dynamics for Turbulent Flow in Urban Street Canyons
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)he ability to make forecasts depends on atmospheric predictability and the growth of errors. It has recently been shown that the predictability of urban boundary layers differs in important respects from that of the free ... -
Retrieval of Vertical Air Motion in Precipitating Clouds Using Mie Scattering and Comparison with In Situ Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)or the first time, the Mie notch retrieval technique is applied to airborne cloud Doppler radar observations in warm precipitating clouds to retrieve the vertical air velocity profile above the aircraft. The retrieval ... -
Sensitivity of Predictions of the Urban Surface Energy Balance and Heat Island to Variations of Urban Canopy Parameters in Simulations with the WRF Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)s NWP and climate models continue to evolve toward finer grid spacing, efforts have been undertaken to better represent urban effects. For this study, the single-layer urban canopy model (SLUCM) of the High-Resolution Land ... -
Modeling of the Denebulization of Warm Fogs by Hygroscopic Seeding: Effect of Various Operating Conditions and of the Turbulence Intensity
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)his study addresses the modeling of the denebulization (i.e., the removal of droplets) of warm fogs (T ≥ 0°C) by hygroscopic salt microparticles from the initial seeding at the top of the fog layer to the fall of the rain ... -
Winter Nocturnal Air Temperature Distribution for a Mesoscale Plain of a Snow-Covered Region: Field Meteorological Observations and Numerical Simulations
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)inter air temperatures strongly affect crop overwintering and cold resource usage. To clarify how winter air temperature distributions are formed in a mesoscale plain, field observations and simulations were conducted for ... -
A new Method to Correct Radiosonde Temperature Biases using Radio Occultation Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)new method to estimate radiosonde temperature biases using radio occultation measurements as a reference has been developed. The bias is estimated as the difference between mean radio occultation and mean radiosonde ...