Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Investigation of the Spatial Variability of the Convective Boundary Layer Heights over an Isolated Mountain: Cases from the MATERHORN-2012 Experiment
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)patiotemporal variability in the convective boundary layer height zi over complex terrain is governed by numerous factors such as land surface processes, topography, and synoptic conditions. Observational datasets to ... -
Remotely Sensed Land Skin Temperature as a Spatial Predictor of Air Temperature across the Conterminous United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)emotely sensed land skin temperature (LST) is increasingly being used to improve gridded interpolations of near-surface air temperature. The appeal of LST as a spatial predictor of air temperature rests in the fact that ... -
Terral de Vicuña, a Foehnlike Wind in Semiarid Northern Chile: Meteorological Aspects and Implications for the Fulfillment of Chill Requirements in Deciduous Fruit Trees
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he terral de Vicuña is a warm and dry wind that flows down the Elqui Valley in north-central Chile typically at dawn and early morning. Given that most terral episodes occur in austral winter when chill accumulation by ... -
Impact of the North Atlantic Oscillation on Transatlantic Flight Routes and Clear-Air Turbulence
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he variation of wind-optimal transatlantic flight routes and their turbulence potential is investigated to understand how upper-level winds and large-scale flow patterns can affect the efficiency and safety of long-haul ... -
Quantitative Assessment of Human Wind Speed Overestimation
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)uman wind reports are a vital supplement to the relatively sparse network of automated weather stations in the United States, especially for localized convective winds. In this study, human wind estimates recorded in Storm ... -
Evaluation of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model in the Durance Valley Complex Terrain during the KASCADE Field Campaign
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)n the winter of 2012/13, the Katabatic Winds and Stability over Cadarache for the Dispersion of Effluents (KASCADE) observational campaign was carried out in southeastern France to characterize the wind and thermodynamic ... -
Trend Analysis and Forecast of Precipitation, Reference Evapotranspiration, and Rainfall Deficit in the Blackland Prairie of Eastern Mississippi
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)rend analysis and estimation of monthly and annual precipitation, reference evapotranspiration ETo, and rainfall deficit are essential for water-resources management and cropping-system design. Rainfall, ETo, and water-deficit ... -
Lidar-Based Height Correction for the Assimilation of Atmospheric Motion Vectors
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)his study uses lidar observations from the polar-orbiting Cloud?Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) satellite to correct operational atmospheric motion vector (AMV) pressure heights. This ... -
High-Precision Measurements of the Copolar Correlation Coefficient: Non-Gaussian Errors and Retrieval of the Dispersion Parameter μ in Rainfall
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he copolar correlation coefficient ?hv has many applications, including hydrometeor classification, ground clutter and melting-layer identification, interpretation of ice microphysics, and the retrieval of raindrop size ... -
A Simple Method Based on Routine Observations to Nowcast Down-Valley Flows in Shallow, Narrow Valleys
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)simple relation to diagnose the existence of a thermally driven down-valley wind in a shallow (100 m deep) and narrow (1?2 km wide) valley based on routine weather measurements has been determined. The relation is based ... -
Contribution of Cutoff Lows to Precipitation across the United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)chronology of cutoff lows (COL) from 1979 to 2014 alongside daily precipitation observations across the conterminous United States was used to examine the contribution of COL to seasonal precipitation, extreme-precipitation ... -
Analysis of Mesoscale Atmospheric Flows above Mature Deep Convection Using Super Rapid Scan Geostationary Satellite Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)uper Rapid Scan Operations for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) R series (SRSOR) using GOES-14 have made experimentation with 1-min time-step data possible prior to the launch of the new satellite. ... -
Interannual Variation of Summer Rainfall in the Taipei Basin
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he Taipei basin, located in northern Taiwan, is formed at the intersection of the Tanshui River valley (~30 km) and the Keelung River valley (~60 km). Summer is the dry season in northern Taiwan, but the maximum rainfall ... -
A New Climatology for Investigating Storm Influences in and on the Extratropics
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he NASA Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction (MAP) Climatology of Mid-Latitude Storm Area (MCMS) project is a set of tools for examining midlatitude cyclones in model-generated data. The MCMS software has two primary tasks. ... -
The Measured Relationship between Ice Water Content and Cloud Radar Reflectivity in Tropical Convective Clouds
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)n this paper, unprecedented bulk measurements of ice water content (IWC) up to approximately 5 g m?3 and 95-GHz radar reflectivities Z95 are used to analyze the statistical relationship between these two quantities and its ... -
A Probabilistic Multispectral Pattern Recognition Method for Detection of Overshooting Cloud Tops Using Passive Satellite Imager Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)eep convective updrafts often penetrate through the surrounding cirrus anvil and into the lower stratosphere. Cross-tropopause transport of ice, water vapor, and chemicals occurs within these ?overshooting tops? (OTs) along ... -
A Local Meshless Method for Approximating 3D Wind Fields
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)n efficient, mesh-free numerical method has been developed for creating 3D wind fields using data from meteorological towers. Node points are placed within a region of interest, generally based upon topological features. ... -
Topographic Impacts on the Spatial Distribution of Deep Convection over Southern Quebec
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)bservations and numerical simulations reveal pronounced mesoscale variability in deep-convection occurrence over southern Quebec, Canada. A 22-yr climatology from the McGill radar just west of Montreal shows that deep-convection ... -
Quantitative Precipitation Estimation of the Epic 2013 Colorado Flood Event: Polarization Radar-Based Variational Scheme
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he accuracy of rain-rate estimation using polarimetric radar measurements has been improved as a result of better characterization of radar measurement quality and rain microphysics. In the literature, a variety of power-law ... -
Diurnal Climatology of the Boundary Layer in Southern California Using AMDAR Temperature and Wind Profiles
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)bservations from commercial aircraft [e.g., the Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay (AMDAR) automated weather reports] have been increasing dramatically. Two main applications of the aircraft data are use in short-term ...