Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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Comparison of Three Methods for Calculating the Standard Deviation of the Wind Direction
(American Meteorological Society, 1986)Three methods to calculate wind direction standard deviation are evaluated. Although eight hours of wind data show no significant differences between the methods, synthetically generated data having standard deviations ... -
Relationships for Deriving Thunderstorm Anvil Ice Mass for CCOPE Storm Water Budget Estimates
(American Meteorological Society, 1986)Relationships between radar reflectivity and ice water content are derived from pendmtions into thundemonn anvils in Montana on seven days during the Cooperative Convective Precipitation Experiment (CCOPE), using aircraft ... -
Dot-Density Shading: A Technique for Mapping Continuous Climatic Data
(American Meteorological Society, 1986)Traditionally, spatial distributions of continuous climatological variables have been displayed using isolines. The placement of isolines involves an assumption about the gradient of the variable being mapped. Because of ... -
Local-Scale Variability of Daily Solar Radiation—San Diego County, California
(American Meteorological Society, 1986)The spatial variability of daily solar radiation values over a region of several hundred square kilometers was examined. Coefficients of variability were obtained as the standard deviations of between-station daily radiation ... -
A Three-Dimensional Cloud Chemistry Model
(American Meteorological Society, 1986)A cloud chemistry model is formulated in term of continuity equations for chemical species in the aqueous and aqueous phases within the cloud. The model includes scavenging of SO2, HNO3, HN3, H2O3, and sulphate aerosol ... -
Observational Study of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer over Antarctica
(American Meteorological Society, 1986)During the austral summer of 1982/83, measurements of wind and temperature profiles were made through the atmospheric boundary layer in Adelie Land, East Antarctica, an area known for strong katabatic winds. It was found ... -
Relationship between Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall and Location of the Ridge at the 500-mb Level along 75°E
(American Meteorological Society, 1986)Banerjee et al. showed for the first time that the number of Indian subdivisions with normal or above-normal monsoon rainfall is related to the location of the April 500-mb ridge along 75°E. Thapliyal brought out the ... -
The Effect of the Arbitrary Level Assignment of Satellite Cloud Motion Wind Vectors on Wind Analyses in the Pre-thunderstorm Environment
(American Meteorological Society, 1986)The impact of satellite-derived cloud motion vectors (CMVs) on analysts of winds measured by rawinsondes during the 1979 SESAME Experiment is studied in two case studies (10 April and 9 May 1979). Cloud motion vectors are ... -
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Corn Yield Prediction Using Climatology
(American Meteorological Society, 1986)A method is developed to predict corn yield during the growing season using a plant process model (CERES-Maize), current weather data and climatological data. The procedure is to place the current year's daily weather ... -
Aggregation of U.S. Population Centers Using Climate Parameters Related to Building Energy Use
(American Meteorological Society, 1986)A technique for aggregating population centers into groups based on selected climate parameters is presented. Climate information on the 125 largest Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs) in the United States is ... -
Climatology of Back Trajectories from Israel Based on Synoptic Analysis
(American Meteorological Society, 1986)The Air Resources Laboratory's trajectory model was used to calculate five-day back trajectories from Israel at the 850 mb pressure surface for five years (January 1978?December 1982). These air flow patterns were evaluated ... -
Interstation Correlations and Nonstationarity of Burkina Faso Rainfall
(American Meteorological Society, 1986)A study is presented of the rainfall regime for central and northern Burkina Faso over 1923?83. Interstation coorrelations for seasonal rainfall totals are rather low, with median 0.31. Sums of truncated daily rainfall ... -
Estimating Summer Design Temperatures from Daily Maximum Temperatures in New Mexico
(American Meteorological Society, 1986)Many climatological locations report only maximum and minimum temperatures. However, in certain applications, such as estimation of design temperatures, the frequency distribution of hourly temperatures is required. For ... -
The Precipitation Anomaly Classification: A Method for Monitoring Regional Precipitation Deficiency and Excess on a Global Scale
(American Meteorological Society, 1986)An objective method to identify and track significant global precipitation anomalies on time scales of a month or longer is presented. The technique requires current observations of monthly precipitation amounts for each ... -
Comments on “Surface Albedo over the Sahel from METEOSAT Radiances”
(American Meteorological Society, 1986)No abstract available. -
A Further Assessment of Treatment Effects in the Florida Area Cumulus Experiment through Guided Linear Modeling
(American Meteorological Society, 1986)The Florida Area Cumulus Experiment (FACE) was a two-stage program dedicated to assessing the potential of ?dynamic seeding? for enhancing convective rainfall in a fixed target area. FACE-1 (1970?76) was an exploratory ... -
Mesoscale Indexing of the Distribution of Orographic Precipitation over High Mountains
(American Meteorological Society, 1986)A simple analytical expression for indexing the orographic precipitation rate over high mountains is presented. The formula is based upon the assumption that the moisture convergence in the mountainous boundary layer ... -
Observed Perturbations of the Earth's Radiation Budget: A Response to the El Chichón Stratospheric Aerosol Layer?
(American Meteorological Society, 1986)The Earth Radiation Budget experiment, launched aboard the Nimbus-7 polar-orbiting spacecraft in late 1978, has now taken over seven years of measurements. The dataset, which is global in coverage, consists of the individual ...