Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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Long-Range Transport of Air Pollution under Light Gradient Wind Conditions
(American Meteorological Society, 1985)The long-range transport of air pollution on clew days under light gradient wind conditions is investigated from an analysis of all days with high oxidant concentrations in 1979 at locations in central Japan that are far ... -
Temporal and Spatial Visibility Variations in the Illinois Vicinity during 1949–80
(American Meteorological Society, 1985)Changes in visibility and the occurrence of smoke or haze during the last three decades are identified for eight locations in and around Illinois. The analyses utilize individual daily data and are performed on both seasonal ... -
A Statistical Analysis of Precipitation Frequency in the Conterminous United States, Including Comparisons with Precipitation Totals
(American Meteorological Society, 1985)An alternative measure of time-aggregated precipitation for use in short-term climate studies is developed. This measure, precipitation frequency, is defined as the number of days per month or season with total amounts ≥ ... -
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Modeling Surface Solar Radiation: Model Formulation and Validation
(American Meteorological Society, 1985)A model for computing global solar radiation at the surface was formulated for use with satellite observations. A compromise in the approach was necessary, whereby the model accuracy and the inherent limitations of satellite ... -
Climatic Variability at Ten Stations Across the United States
(American Meteorological Society, 1985)Ten stations are chosen for a study of climatic variability in the continental United States, using as the main criteria good geographical distribution, long-period records (since before 1900), and available daily, monthly ... -
Concentrations and Source Areas of Ice Nuclei in the Alaskan Atmosphere
(American Meteorological Society, 1985)Atmospheric ice nucleus concentrations were measured by the filter method daily for ten months at three ground sites in Alaska to determine the influence of long-range nucleus sources on the concentrations. The results ... -
Soil Moisture Content: Statistical Estimation of Its Probability Distribution
(American Meteorological Society, 1985)A stochastic model for the estimation of soil moisture distribution is derived. The series of daily precipitation amounts is described as a chain-dependent process and the surface water balance equation is simplified so ... -
Comments on “The Determination of View-Factors in Urban Canyons”
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Limb Effects in Satellite Temperature Sounding
(American Meteorological Society, 1985)To date, operational satellite temperature retrieves from the TIROS-N/NOAA A?G series of satellites and a large percentage of those produced for research purposes have used statistical techniques to estimate limb effects ... -
The Segregation of Aerosols by Cloud-Nucleating Activity. Part II: Observation of an Urban Aerosol
(American Meteorological Society, 1985)The submicron aerosol of metropolitan Seattle was segregated into CCN and non-CCN fractions by a high-flux thermal diffusion cloud chamber in series with a dichotomous separator. Each segregated fraction of the five-hour ... -
Retrieval of Cloud Cover Parameters from Multispectral Satellite Images
(American Meteorological Society, 1985)A technique is described for extracting cloud cover parameters from multispectral satellite radiometric measurements. Utilizing three channels (visible, 3.7 ?m and 11 ?m) from the AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution ... -
Estimates of Climatic Air Quality Potential at Shreveport, Louisiana
(American Meteorological Society, 1985)Air quality potential at Shreveport, Louisiana is evaluated using synoptic weather types, mixing heights, and dispersion. Mixing height and dispersion data for ten years are segregated by synoptic weather types twice a day ... -
The Segregation of Aerosols by Cloud-Nucleating Activity. Part I: Design, Construction, and Testing of A High-Flux Thermal Diffusion Cloud Chamber for Mass Separation
(American Meteorological Society, 1985)We describe a thermal diffusion cloud chamber operated in series with an aerodynamic dichotomous separator that can segregate aerosol particles by their abilities to nucleate cloud droplets. The apparatus takes advantage ... -
Regional-Scale Diurnal Variations of Outgoing Infrared Radiation Observed by METEOSAT
(American Meteorological Society, 1985)For any given area, diurnal variation of the emitted longwave radiation reveals the response of the surface and atmosphere to the astronomical diurnal forcing. However, the diurnal rhythm can be masked locally by changes ... -
Assessment of Operationally-Issued Long Range Precipitation Outlooks for Illinois
(American Meteorological Society, 1985)As a result of a 1980?81 drought, statistically derived outlooks of monthly and seasonal precipitation began to be issued to Illinois officials who were making management decisions relating to water supplies and agricultural ... -
Estimation of Atmospheric Moisture Content from Microwave Radiometric Measurements during CCOPE
(American Meteorological Society, 1985)We have applied a multiple linear regression technique to retrieve continuous sequences of atmospheric moisture profiles from a set of measured data. In this method the selection of an optimal subset of sensor channels ... -
Grossversuch IV: “Extended Area” Effects on Rainfall
(American Meteorological Society, 1985)During the years 1977?82 a randomized single area hail suppression experiment was conducted in Central Switzerland, testing the Soviet concept of beneficial competition. For 37 seed and 50 no-seed days, rainfall data, both ... -
A Comparison of Antarctic Sea Ice Data Sets and Inferred Trends in Ice Area
(American Meteorological Society, 1985)A comparison is made of seven Antarctic sea ice data sets developed since 1980, on the basis of techniques of analysis and inferred temporal variations. Navy-NOAA Joint Ice Center sea ice charts are the basic data for all ... -
A Monte Carlo Simulation of the Eddy Accumulation Method for Measuring Scalar Fluxes
(American Meteorological Society, 1985)A numerical simulation of the eddy accumulation technique for measuring scalar fluxes has been devised using pseudo-random number pairs generated by computer. Input information is the joint probability density function of ...