Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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An Assessment of Models which use Satellite Data to Estimate Solar Irradiance at the Earth's Surface
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)The performances of three models which use satellite data to estimate solar irradiance at the Earth's surface are assessed using measured radiation data from a midlatitude location. Assessment of the models is made possible ... -
Effects of Aliasing on Spectral Moment Estimates Derived from the Complete Autocorrelation Function
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)No abstract available. -
Effects of Nontropical Forest Cover on Climate
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)The albedo of a forest with snow on the ground is much less than that of snow-covered low vegetation such as tundra. As a result, simulation of the Northern Hemisphere climate, when fully forested south of a suitably chosen ... -
The Relationship between N0 and Λ for Marshall-Palmer Type Raindrop-Size Distributions
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)For raindrop-size distributions of the form ND = N0e??D, where ND is the number of drops of diameter D per unit volume per unit increment in drop diameter, the parameters N0 and ? cannot be specified independently as ... -
Modeling Temperature Data: An Illustration of the Use of Biplots in Nonlinear Modeling
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)A strategy for exploring multivariate data and modeling is presented and illustrated on meteorological data. Its principal tool is the biplot two-dimensional display of data matrices and its three-dimensional analog. ... -
The Interpretation and Estimation of Effective Sample Size
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)Statistical and dynamical relationships between observed values of a geophysical system or model effectively reduce the number of independent data. This reduction is expressible in terms of the covariance structure of the ... -
The Estimation of Hourly Global Solar Radiation Using a Cloud Cover Model Developed at Blytheville, Arkansas
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)The lack of a comprehensive solar radiation monitoring network throughout the United States has led to extensive modeling. Some of the models use a measured component, usually the global solar radiation, to predict the ... -
Spectral Distribution of Solar Radiation on Clear Days: A Comparison Between Measurements and Model Estimates
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)The spectral distribution of the direct solar and scattered sky radiation are computed and presented as functions of solar height and as integrated daily values for selected days of the year. The monochromatic fluxes are ... -
Variation in United States Cloudiness and Sunshine, 1950–82
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)The variation in cloudiness and percentage of possible sunshine for the contiguous United States and six regions thereof is examined, based on data from 101 National Weather Service stations for the years 1950?82. Over ... -
An Objective Method for Forecasting Tropical Cyclone Motion Using Nimbus and NOAA-2 Infrared Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)A statistical method has been developed using satellite, climatological, and persistence data to predict tropical cyclone position 12, 24, 48 and 72 h after initial observation. The satellite measurements were infrared ... -
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Determination of Atmospheric Temperature Profiles from a Statistical Combination of Ground-Based Profiler and Operational NOAA 6/7 Satellite Retrievals
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)Radiometric soundings from the Wave Propagation Laboratory's ground-based Profiler, the NOAA 6/7 satellites, and the combination of the two, were compared in their ability to derive temperature and moisture profiles. ... -
Spatial and Temporal Variations in Mesoscale Water Vapor Retrieved from TOVS Infrared Radiances in a Nocturnal Inversion Situation
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)Mesoscale moisture fields are retrieved from TOVS (TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder) infrared radiances from two polar-orbiting satellites. A special feature of the retrieval process is the determination of the surface ... -
Global Cloud Climatologies: A Historical Review
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)Accurate global cloud information is required for many climate studies, particularly for validation of climate model simulations. This paper reviews the cloud climatologies currently available, identifying and attempting ... -
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Comments on “Three-Dimensional Wind Field Analysis from Dual-Doppler Radar Data. Part II: Minimizing the Error due to Temporal Variation”
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)No abstract available. -
Atmospheric Dispersion from Elevated Sources in an Urban Area: Comparison between Tracer Experiments and Model Calculations
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)Atmospheric dispersion experiments were carried out in the Copenhagen area under neutral and unstable conditions. The tracer sulphurhexafluoride was released without buoyancy from a tower at a height of 115 m and then ... -
A Simulation of the Eddy Accumulation Method for Measuring Pollutant Fluxes
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)?Eddy accumulation? is a variation of standard eddy correlation techniques for determining eddy fluxes by sampling air in two separate systems depending on whether the vertical velocity is positive or negative. In concept, ... -
Effects of Sahel Dust Layers upon Nocturnal Cooling of the Atmosphere (ECLATS Experiment)
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)A study of the effect of a desert aerosol layer on the nocturnal cooling of the atmosphere is presented. The experimental data were obtained during the ECLATS experiment which was run in the Sahel region of the Niger in ... -
Temporal Variations of Aerosol Optical Parameters Resulting from the Aging of a Model Aerosol Number Size Distribution
(American Meteorological Society, 1984)Aerosol number size distributions are subject to aging, i.e., to temporal variations. The aging of a Junge number size distribution due to a multitude of processes was modeled by Junge and Abel. The pertinent changes with ...