Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: Recent submissions
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Spatial Variability of the Background Diurnal Cycle of Deep Convection around the GoAmazon2014/5 Field Campaign Sites
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he isolation of the Amazon rain forest makes it challenging to observe precipitation forming there, but it also creates a natural laboratory to study anthropogenic impacts on clouds and precipitation in an otherwise pristine ... -
Evaluation of Variation in Surface Solar Irradiance and Clustering of Observation Stations in Japan
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)ariation in surface solar irradiance is investigated using ground-based observation data. The solar irradiance analyzed in this paper is scaled by the solar irradiance at the top of the atmosphere and is thus dimensionless. ... -
Projected Changes in Mid-Twenty-First-Century Extreme Maximum Pavement Temperature in Canada
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)uture climate warming is virtually certain to bring about an increase in the frequency of heat extremes. Highway design and pavement selection are based on a temperature regime that reflects the local climate zone. Increasing ... -
The Relationship between Elevation Roughness and Tornado Activity: A Spatial Statistical Model Fit to Data from the Central Great Plains
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he statistical relationship between elevation roughness and tornado activity is quantified using a spatial model that controls for the effect of population on the availability of reports. Across a large portion of the ... -
Assimilation of Infrared Radiance Observations with Sensitivity to Land Surfaces in the Canadian Ensemble–Variational System
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)his study highlights recent progress at the Canadian Meteorological Centre in the assimilation of Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) and Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) radiance observations that are ... -
Assessing the Impact of Typhoons on Rice Production in the Philippines
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)his study quantifies the impact of typhoons on rice production in the Philippines. To this end, satellite-derived reflectance data are used to detect the location of rice fields at 500-m resolution. Utilizing typhoon-track ... -
Using Synthetic Tropical Cyclones to Characterize Extreme Hurricanes Affecting Charleston, South Carolina
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he characteristics and conditions favoring extreme hurricanes remain largely unknown because of their small number in the observational record. Synthetic tracks are capable of providing a large, representative sample of ... -
Simulating Climate Change Impacts and Adaptive Measures for Rice Cultivation in Hunan Province, China
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)limate change will inevitably continue for the next few decades and will have an impact on climate-sensitive agricultural production, emphasizing the need to design effective adaptive strategies to cope with climate risk ... -
Daytime Cirrus Cloud Top-of-the-Atmosphere Radiative Forcing Properties at a Midlatitude Site and Their Global Consequences
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)ne year of continuous ground-based lidar observations (2012) is analyzed for single-layer cirrus clouds at the NASA Micro Pulse Lidar Network site at the Goddard Space Flight Center to investigate top-of-the-atmosphere ... -
Sea Spray Generation at a Rocky Shoreline
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)ith sea ice in the Arctic continuing to shrink, the Arctic Ocean and the surrounding marginal seas will become more like the ocean at lower latitudes. In particular, with more open water, air?sea exchange will be more ... -
Analysis of Urban Effects in Oklahoma City using a Dense Surface Observing Network
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)any studies have investigated urban heat island (UHI) intensity for cities around the world, which is normally quantified as the temperature difference between urban location(s) and rural location(s). A few open questions ... -
A Statistical Method for Categorical Drought Prediction Based on NLDAS-2
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)rought is a slowly varying natural phenomenon and may have wide impacts on a range of sectors. Tremendous efforts have therefore been devoted to drought monitoring and prediction to reduce potential impacts of drought. ... -
Polarimetric Radar Characteristics of Melting Hail. Part III: Validation of the Algorithm for Hail Size Discrimination
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)his study is the third part of a paper series investigating the polarimetric radar properties of melting hail and application of those properties for operational polarimetric hail detection and determination of its size. ... -
Influence of Canopy Seasonal Changes on Turbulence Parameterization within the Roughness Sublayer over an Orchard Canopy
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)n this observational study, the role of tree phenology on the atmospheric turbulence parameterization over 10-m-tall and relatively sparse deciduous vegetation is quantified. Observations from the Canopy Horizontal Array ... -
Influence of the Summer NAO on the Spring-NAO-Based Predictability of the East Asian Summer Monsoon
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he dominant mode of atmospheric circulation over the North Atlantic region is the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). The boreal spring NAO may imprint its signal on contemporaneous sea surface temperature (SST), leading to ... -
Extrapolating Satellite Winds to Turbine Operating Heights
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)cean wind retrievals from satellite sensors are typically performed for the standard level of 10 m. This restricts their full exploitation for wind energy planning, which requires wind information at much higher levels ... -
An Automated System to Quantify Aircraft Encounters with Convectively Induced Turbulence over Europe and the Northeast Atlantic
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)t is well known that encounters with moderate or severe turbulence can lead to passenger and crew injuries and incur high insurance costs for airlines. Atmospheric convection is thought to induce a significant proportion ... -
The Naval Research Laboratory Ocean Surface Flux (NFLUX) System: Satellite-Based Turbulent Heat Flux Products
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he Naval Research Laboratory ocean surface flux (NFLUX) system provides satellite-based surface state parameter and surface turbulent heat flux fields operationally over the global ocean. These products are presented as ... -
Empirical Modeling and Stochastic Simulation of Sea Level Pressure Variability
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he scope of this work is stochastic emulation of sea level pressure (SLP) for use in error estimation and statistical prediction studies. The input SLP dataset whose statistics are to be emulated was taken from the 1979?2013 ... -
The Extra-Area Effect of Orographic Cloud Seeding: Observational Evidence of Precipitation Enhancement Downwind of the Target Mountain
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)his study uses scanning X-band Doppler on Wheels (DOW) radar data to examine whether ground-based glaciogenic seeding influences orographic precipitation, inadvertently, over the foothills of a mountain ~50 km downwind of ...