Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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Comments on “Microwave Radiometric Observations near 19.35, 92 and 183 GHz of Precipitation in Tropical Storm Cora”
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Equivalent Radar Reflectivity Factors for Snow and Ice Particles
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Development of Regional Models that Use Meteorological Variables for Predicting Stripe Rust Disease on Winter Wheat
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)Meteorological variables can be used to predict stripe rust, a disease of wheat caused by Puccinia striiformis West., at Lind, Pullman, and Walla Walla, Washington and Pendleton, Oregon in the Pacific Northwest of the ... -
Infrared Parameterization and Simple Climate Models
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)Empirical studies of total outgoing infrared radiation IR and surface temperature T have shown them to be well correlated for large time and space scales. An analysis of one year of Nimbus-6 data shows that the simple form ... -
Slant-Lidar Aerosol Extinction Measurements and their Relation to Measured and Calculated Albedo Changes
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)The slant-path (or zenith-angle scanning) lidar technique is used to measure boundary-layer optical depths for ten different times during a single day. For the range of optical depths encountered (0.03?0.14 at 0.69 ?m ... -
Power Laws and the Empirical Representation of Velocity and Directional Shear
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)Wind profiles over a smooth frozen sea were used to determine the exponent in the empirical power laws for wind modulus and both horizontal components. Classification according to stability shows the expected trend but ... -
Numerical Simulation of the Transport of Chemically Reactive Species under Land- and Sea-Breeze Circulations
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)The characteristics of the transport of chemically reactive species under land- and sea-breeze (LSB) circulations are investigated using a detailed transport/chemistry model, which includes 84 gas-phase and 10 heterogeneous ... -
Review of Weibull Statistics for Estimation of Wind Speed Distributions
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)A statistical distribution commonly used for describing measured wind speed data is the Weibull distribution. A review of the methods found in the statistical literature for the purpose of estimation of the parameters in ... -
A Model of the Radiative Properties of the EL Chichon Stratospheric Aerosol Layer
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)An accurate multiple-scattering model has been employed to examine the effect of an aerosol layer at 25 mb, corresponding to the EL Chichon observations, on the reflection, transmission and absorption of radiation by the ... -
Ground Truth: A Positive Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Flash
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)We describe the circumstances and effects of a cloud-to-ground lightning flash that lowered positive charge and struck a residential home near Albany, New York. The characteristics of the flash were detected and recorded ... -
Radiation Properties and Emissivity Parameterization of High Level Thin Clouds
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)To parameterize emissivity of clouds at 11 ?m, a study has been made in an effort to understand the radiation field of thin clouds. The contributions to the intensity and flux from different sources and through different ... -
Time Series Models to Simulate and Forecast Wind Speed and Wind Power
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)A general approach for modeling wind speed and wind power is described. Because wind power is a function of wind speed, the methodology is based on the development of a model of wind speed. Values of wind power are estimated ... -
A Radar-Based Climatology of Thunderstorm Days across New York State
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)Archived radar reports, derived from the National Weather Service radar network, were used to estimate the average annual frequencies of thunderstorm days across New York State for the period 1978?81. The archival records ... -
A Statistical Correlation Method for the Retrieval of Atmospheric Moisture Profiles by Microwave Radiometry
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)A statistical correlation technique is applied to the retrieval of vertical moisture profiles under clear-skyconditions from down-looking radiometric measurements of atmospheric radiation at microwave wavelengths. For a ... -
Towards the Objective Analysis of Clouds from Satellite Imagery Data
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)We present an objective analysis scheme for deriving cloud properties from satellite imagery data for oceanic regions. The scheme is based on the spatial coherence method. As this method is applicable only to simple layered ... -
The Palmer Drought Severity Index: Limitations and Assumptions
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)The structure of the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), which is perhaps the most widely used regional index of drought, is examined. The PDSI addresses two of the most elusive properties of droughts: their intensity ... -
Diurnal Variability of Regional Cloud and Clear-Sky Radiative Parameters Derived from GOES Data. Part II: November 1978 Cloud Distributions
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)Regional (250 ? 250 km2) diurnal cloud variability is examined using mean hourly cloud amounts derived from November 1978 GOES-East visible and infrared data with a hybrid bispectral threshold technique. A wide variety of ... -
Diurnal Variability of Regional Cloud and Clear-Sky Radiative Parameters Derived from GOES Data. Part I: Analysis Method
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)A hybrid bispectral threshold method (HBTM) is developed for hourly regional cloud and radiative parameters from geostationary satellite visible and infrared radiance data. The quantities derived with the HBTM include ... -
Diurnal Variability of Regional Cloud and Clear-Sky Radiative Parameters Derived from GOES Data. Part III: November 1978 Radiative Parameters
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)The diurnal variability of the radiation emitted and reflected from the earth-atmosphere is investigated at the regional scale using November 1978 GOES-East visible and infrared data and GOES-derived cloud information. ... -
Long-Range Tropospheric Transport of Pollution Aerosols into the Alaskan Arctic
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)Noncrustal vanadium and manganese are used as chemical tracers for pollution-derived aerosols (collected over a period of four years in the near-surface air at Barrow, Alaska), in order to investigate tropospheric long-range ...