Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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Impacts of Spatial and Temporal Windspeed Variability on Wind Energy Output
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)Modern applications of wind energy include water pumping and, for supply of electricity, grid-connected wind turbines and wind/direct stand-alone systems. In Britain, wind energy has been found to be particularly suited ... -
Use of Climatic Data to Identify Potential Sites in the United States for Growing Papaver bracteatum as a Pharmaceutical Crop
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)A procedure utilizing maps in the National Climatic Atlas was used to survey the United States to find areas for domesticating Papaver bracteatum, a wild poppy from the Trans-Caucasus. This poppy has unique properties which ... -
Optimized Retrievals of Precipitable Water from the VAS “Split Window”
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)Precipitable water fields have been retrieved from the VISSR Atmospheric Sounder (VAS) using a radiation transfer model for the differential water vapor absorption between the 11 and 12 ?m ?split window? channels. Previous ... -
Usage of Near Real-Time Climate Information
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)Through a computer-based system, weather data from Illinois are collected daily, checked, and summarized into various climatic products within hours after collection. This system was controlled for two years to demonstrate ... -
Valuing Climate Forecast Information
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)The article describes research opportunities associated with evaluating the characteristics of climate forecasts in settings where sequential decisions are made. Illustrative results are provided for corn production in ... -
The Potential of Vegetation in Reducing Summer Cooling Loads in Residential Buildings
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)The potential of trees and other vegetation to reduce building cooling loads has been recorded in a number of studies but the meso- and microclimate changes producing such savings are not well understood. This paper describes ... -
Corn Yield Behavior: Effects of Technological Advance and Weather-Conditions
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)This study explores the relationships between U.S. corn yields (level and stability), advances in technology, and weather. Evaluations at the farm, sub-state, and national levels reveal no evidence of yield plateaus, and ... -
Relationship of the Variances of Temperature and Velocity to Atmospheric Static Stability—Application to Radar and Acoustic Sounding
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)The relationship between the variances of temperature and vertical velocity fluctuations is examined experimentally and theoretically. Comparison of the variance data and the mean gradient data recorded on the 300 m tower ... -
Retrieval of Water Vapor Profiles via Principal Components: Options and Their Implications
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)Principal components have been widely used in regression retrieval of atmospheric parameters, but when applied to water vapor concentrations their use entails special problems. We discuss two of these problem and present ... -
Combination of Manually Digitized Radar and GOES IR for Real-Time Display of Rainfall Intensity
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)Manually Digitized Radar (MDR) and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) thermal infrared (IR) data were merged to form a higher-resolution radar/IR product than that represented by the MDR. The combination ... -
A Physical Bound on the Bowen Ratio
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)Forbidding supersaturation above an evaporating water (or sublimating ice) surface fixes an upper bound on ?, the Bowen ratio; a similar bound holds for evaporation from unsaturated surfaces. The bound arises from the ... -
Parameterization of the Atmospheric Surface Layer for Use in Mesometeorological and Planetary Boundary Layer Models
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)An attempt to simplify the method suggested by Kazakov and Lazriyev for surface layer parameterization is done by curve fitting. As a result, based on the Monin-Obukhov surface layer similarity theory, well-known reliable ... -
Ice Cloud Content from Radar Reflectivity
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)The ice equivalent radar reflectivity factor (Zi = 5.3Ze) is found from previous measurements to be related to the precipitation rate (R mm h?1) and ice mass content (M, g m?3) of ice crystal clouds by R = 0.067Zi0.804 and ... -
Hemispherical Reflectance Variations of Vegetation Canopies and Implications for Global and Regional Energy Budget Studies
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)The variations of spectral hemispherical reflectance (albedo) in vegetation canopies were studied as a function of solar zenith angle, leaf area index, led orientation distribution, and leaf and soil optical, properties. ... -
Temporal Variations in Tucson, Arizona Summertime Atmospheric Moisture, Temperature and Weather Stress Levels
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)Summertime temperature, dewpoint, relative humidity, apparent temperature and weather stress levels have not changed significantly over the past 37 years at the Tucson, Arizona Municipal Airport. However, several of these ... -
Wind and Temperature Structure over a Land-Water-Land Area
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)Wind and temperature data obtained on 5 June 1984 during the ?resund experiment are analyzed. The day was characterized by moderately strong winds blowing from a heated land area over a colder water surface and then over ... -
Acid Precipitation Patterns and Trends in Eastern North America, 1980–84
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)Using data complied from seven nationwide precipitation chemistry networks in the United States and Canada, the spatial distribution of hydrogen, sulfate and nitrate ions in North America is discussed. Geographic patterns ... -
The Statistical Relationship between the Synoptic-Scale Pressure Field and the Development and Morning Transition of Surface Inversions at Two Rural Sites
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)The association between the synoptic-scale sea level pressure field and the behavior of the morning inversion at two 60-m tower sites in North and South Carolina is investigated. Daily gridded pressure data for 1976 through ... -
Probabilities of Daily Hail and Thunder Occurrences
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)The nonhomogeneous Poisson distribution is applied to the probabilities of the number and dates of days experiencing thunder and had in southern Saskatchewan, Canada. The seasonal nature of hail and thunder occurrence is ... -
The Relation between Indian Monsoon Rainfall, the Southern Oscillation, and Hemispheric Air and Sea Temperature: 1884–1984
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)Correlations between the June-September Indian monsoon rainfall and Santiago minus Darwin pressure, Tahiti minus Darwin pressure, and Wright's Southern Oscillation index, as well as the individual station pressure deviations ...