Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Spatial Redistribution of U.S. Tornado Activity between 1954 and 2013
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)limate change over the past several decades prompted this preliminary investigation into the possible effects of global warming on the climatological behavior of U.S. tornadoes for the domain bounded by 30°?50°N and ... -
Changes in the Seoul Metropolitan Area Urban Heat Environment with Residential Redevelopment
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)ince the Industrial Revolution, the geographical extent of cities has increased around the world. In particular, following three decades of rapid regional economic growth, many Asian megacities have emerged and continue ... -
Multiscale Characteristics of Surface Winds in an Area of Complex Terrain in Northwest Utah
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)limatological features of the surface wind on diurnal and seasonal time scales over a 17-yr period in an area of complex terrain at Dugway Proving Ground in northwestern Utah are analyzed, and potential synoptic-scale, ... -
Local Meteorological and Large-Scale Weather Characteristics of Fog over the Grand Casablanca Region, Morocco
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)sing a fog event approach, the local meteorological and synoptic characteristics of fogs that formed over the Grand Casablanca (GCB) region during a 9-yr period (2001?09) are investigated. A climatological study of fog, ... -
Using the SAL Technique for Spatial Verification of Cloud Processes: A Sensitivity Analysis
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he feature-based spatial verification method named for its three score components: structure, amplitude, and location (SAL) is applied to cloud data, that is, two-dimensional spatial fields of total cloud cover and spectral ... -
Understanding Orographic Effects on Surface Observations at Macquarie Island
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he meteorological observations on Macquarie Island have become of increasing value for efforts to understand the unique nature of atmospheric processes over the Southern Ocean. While the island is of modest elevation (peak ... -
Estimating Lightning from Microwave Remote Sensing Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)his study evaluates a method for estimating the cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning flash rate from microwave remote sensing data. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellites have been in operation since 1987 and include ... -
Standardization of Offshore Surface Wind Speeds
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)ind measurement offers an essential data source for a wide range of practices in the fields of meteorology and wind engineering. However, records of surface winds are usually influenced by terrain/topographic effects, and ... -
Application of Satellite- and NWP-Derived Wind Profiles to Military Airdrop Operations
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he Joint Precision Airdrop System (JPADS) has revolutionized military high-altitude airdrop capability, allowing delivery of equipment and supplies to smaller drop zones from higher altitudes than was previously possible. ... -
The Potential Predictability of Fire Danger Provided by Numerical Weather Prediction
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)global fire danger rating system driven by atmospheric model forcing has been developed with the aim of providing early warning information to civil protection authorities. The daily predictions of fire danger conditions ... -
Probability-Weighted Ensembles of U.S. County-Level Climate Projections for Climate Risk Analysis
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)uantitative assessment of climate change risk requires a method for constructing probabilistic time series of changes in physical climate parameters. Here, two such methods, surrogate/model mixed ensemble (SMME) and Monte ... -
The GEWEX Water Vapor Assessment: Results from Intercomparison, Trend, and Homogeneity Analysis of Total Column Water Vapor
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he Global Energy and Water Cycle Exchanges project (GEWEX) water vapor assessment?s (G-VAP) main objective is to analyze and explain strengths and weaknesses of satellite-based data records of water vapor through ... -
Estimating Daytime Planetary Boundary Layer Heights over a Valley from Rawinsonde Observations at a Nearby Airport: An Application to the Page Valley in Virginia, United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he planetary boundary layer (PBL) height is an essential parameter required for many applications, including weather forecasting and dispersion modeling for air quality. Estimates of PBL height are not easily available and ... -
A Hybrid Index for Characterizing Drought Based on a Nonparametric Kernel Estimator
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)his study develops a nonparametric multivariate drought index, namely, the nonparametric multivariate standardized drought index (NMSDI), by considering the variations of both precipitation and streamflow. Building upon ... -
Radar Rain-Rate Estimators and Their Variability due to Rainfall Type: An Assessment Based on Hydrometeorology Testbed Data from the Southeastern United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)-band profiling (S-PROF) radar measurements from different southeastern U.S. Hydrometeorology Testbed sites indicated a frequent occurrence of rain that did not exhibit radar bright band (BB) and was observed outside the ... -
Spatiotemporal Snowfall Variability in the Lake Michigan Region: How is Warming Affecting Wintertime Snowfall?
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)his study has investigated the spatiotemporal structure and changes in Lake Michigan snowfall for the period 1950?2013. With data quality caveats acknowledged, a larger envelope of stations was included than in previous ... -
Quantifying the Roles of Changing Albedo, Emissivity, and Energy Partitioning in the Impact of Irrigation on Atmospheric Heat Content
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)ntroduction of irrigated agriculture changes the partitioning of the surface energy flux between sensible and latent heat (H vs LE) and alters the albedo α and emissivity ε. In the absence of changes in the radiation ... -
Toward Improving Ice Water Content and Snow-Rate Retrievals from Radars. Part I: X and W Bands, Emphasizing CloudSat
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)icrophysical data and radar reflectivities (Ze, ?15 < Ze < 10 dB) measured from flights during the NASA Tropical Clouds, Convection, Chemistry and Climate field program are used to relate Ze at X and W band to measured ice ... -
Time Series Construction of Summer Surface Temperatures for Alabama, 1883–2014, and Comparisons with Tropospheric Temperature and Climate Model Simulations
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)hree time series of average summer [June?August (JJA)] daily maximum temperature (TMax) are developed for three interior regions of Alabama from stations with varying periods of record and unknown inhomogeneities. The time ... -
Project Sagebrush: Revisiting the Value of the Horizontal Plume Spread Parameter σy
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he first phase of an atmospheric tracer experiment program, designated Project Sagebrush, was conducted at the Idaho National Laboratory in October 2013. The purpose was to reevaluate the results of classical field experiments ...