Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Model-Based Projections and Uncertainties of Near-Surface Wind Climate in Western Canada
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)ear-surface wind is important in forestry, agriculture, air pollution, building energy use, and wind power generation. In western Canada it presently plays a minor role in power generation, but ongoing reductions in the ... -
Cloud Impacts on Pavement Temperature and Shortwave Radiation
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)orecast systems provide decision support for end users ranging from the solar energy industry to municipalities concerned with road safety. Pavement temperature is an important variable when considering vehicle response ... -
Impact of Simulated Twenty-First-Century Changes in Extratropical Cyclones on Coastal Flooding at the Battery, New York City
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)his paper explores simulated changes to the cool-season (November?March) storm-surge and coastal-flooding events at the Battery in New York City, New York (NYC), during most of the twenty-first century using several climate ... -
A simple new model for incoming solar radiation dependent only on screen-level relative humidity
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)lobal incoming shortwave radiation (Rg) is the energy source for the majority of biogeochemical processes on Earth, as well as for photo-voltaic power production. Existing simple site-specific models to estimate Rg commonly ... -
Synoptic Classes as a Predictor of Hourly Surface Wind Regimes: The Case of the Central and Southern Israeli Coastal Plains
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)his work considers whether it is possible to use semiobjective synoptic classes as a year-round predictor of hourly surface winds in Israel. Previous literature has quantitatively characterized the hourly surface flow ... -
Diagnosing Cloud Microphysical Process Information from Remote Sensing Measurements—A Feasibility Study Using Aircraft Data. Part I: Tropical Anvils Measured during TC4
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he authors investigate whether radar remote sensing of a certain class of ice clouds allows for characterization of the precipitation rates and aggregation processes. The NASA DC-8 collected the measurements in tropical ... -
Radiation Fluxes in a Business District of Shanghai, China
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)adiative fluxes are key drivers of surface?atmosphere heat exchanges in cities. Here the first yearlong (December 2012?November 2013) measurements of the full radiation balance for a dense urban site in Shanghai, China, ... -
Influence of Bias Correcting Predictors on Statistical Downscaling Models
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)tatistical downscaling models (SDMs) and bias correction (BC) methods are commonly used to provide regional or debiased climate projections. However, most SDMs are utilized in a ?perfect prognosis? context, meaning that ... -
Large-Scale Gravity Current over the Middle Hills of the Nepal Himalaya: Implications for Aircraft Accidents
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)epal has been the location of a series of fatal aircraft accidents, raising serious concerns about civil aviation security and the safety of passengers. However, significant studies on weather patterns associated with the ... -
Future Projections of Heat and Fire-Risk Indices for the Contiguous United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)ncreasing temperatures and changes in precipitation associated with climate change are expected to have increasing impacts on the contiguous United States in the coming decades, including military training and outdoor ... -
Multichannel Empirical Orthogonal Teleconnection analysis: a method for space-time decomposition of climate variability
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)ith the increasing availability of Earth observation datasets, developing methods for the identification of modes of variability is becoming crucial in Earth System Science. These modes, also referred as teleconnections, ... -
Improved Retrieval of Cloud Liquid Water from CloudSat and MODIS
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)revised version of the CloudSat?MODIS cloud liquid water retrieval algorithm is presented. The new algorithm, which combines measurements of radar reflectivity and cloud optical depth, addresses issues discovered in the ... -
Objective Climatological Analysis of Extreme Weather Events in Arizona during the North American Monsoon
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)lmost one-half of the annual precipitation in the southwestern United States occurs during the North American monsoon (NAM). Given favorable synoptic-scale conditions, organized monsoon thunderstorms may affect relatively ... -
A Comparison of X-Band Polarization Parameters with In Situ Microphysical Measurements in the Comma Head of Two Winter Cyclones
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)ince the advent of dual-polarization radar, methods of classifying hydrometeors by type from measured polarization variables have been developed. The deterministic approach of existing hydrometeor classification algorithms ... -
Comparing Standard to Feature-Based Meteorological Model Evaluation Techniques in Bogotá, Colombia
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)tandard meteorological model performance evaluation (sMPE) can be insufficient in determining ?fitness? for air quality modeling. An sMPE compares predictions of meteorological variables with community-based thresholds. ... -
Microphysical Properties of Ice Crystal Precipitation and Surface-Generated Ice Crystals in a High Alpine Environment in Switzerland
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)uring the Cloud and Aerosol Characterization Experiment (CLACE) 2013 field campaign at the High Altitude Research Station Jungfraujoch, Switzerland, optically thin pure ice clouds and ice crystal precipitation were measured ... -
Characterization of the 14 June 2011 Norman, Oklahoma, Downburst through Dual-Polarization Radar Observations and Hydrometeor Classification
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)n 14 June 2011, thunderstorms developed along a cold front in central Oklahoma in a thermodynamic environment that was conducive for downbursts. One of the thunderstorms produced a wet downburst in Norman, Oklahoma, that ... -
Statistical Weather-Impact Models: An Application of Neural Networks and Mixed Effects for Corn Production over the United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)tatistical meteorological impact models are intended to represent the impact of weather on socioeconomic activities, using a statistical approach. The calibration of such models is difficult because relationships are complex ... -
Extreme Event Verification for Probabilistic Downscaling
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)xtreme events are important to many studying regional climate impacts but provide a challenge for many ?deterministic? downscaling methodologies. The University of Wisconsin Probabilistic Downscaling (UWPD) dataset applies ... -
Influences on Observed Near-Surface Gust Factors in Landfalling U.S. Gulf Coast Hurricanes: 2004–08
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he deployment of ruggedized surface observing platforms by university research programs in the path of landfalling tropical cyclones has yielded a wealth of information regarding the near-surface wind flow characteristics. ...