Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions

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    • An Automatic Profiler of the Temperature, Wind and Humidity in the Troposphere 

      Hogg, D. C.; Decker, M. T.; Guiraud, F. O.; Earnshaw, K. B.; Merritt, D. A.; Moran, K. P.; Sweezy, W. B.; Strauch, R. G.; Westwater, E. R.; Little, C. G. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      A remote-sensing system for continuously profiling the troposphere is discussed; the prototype Profiler utilizes radio wavelengths, thereby achieving essentially all-weather operation. Designed for unattended operation, ...

    • A Survey of Radar Rain Measurement Techniques 

      Doviak, Richard J. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      Several methods used to estimate rainfall rate R are surveyed. The distribution N(D) of drop sizes is of central importance in determining the reflectivity factor Z, attenuation rate K, and R. With single-parameter measurement ...

    • Parametric Estimation of Doppler Spectral Moments: An Alternative Ground Clutter Rejection Technique 

      Passarelli, Richard E. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      The theory of parametric techniques for the recovery of Doppler spectral moments from ground-clutter-contaminated measurements of the radar autocorrelation function is presented. Seven algorithms for the mean velocity are ...

    • Low-Level Water Vapor Fields from the VISSR Atmospheric Sounder (VAS) “Split Window” Channels 

      Chesters, Dennis; Uccellini, Louis W.; Robinson, Wayne D. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      A simple physical algorithm is developed which calculates the water vapor content of the lower troposphere from the 11 and 12 ?m (split window) channels on the VISSR Atmospheric Sounder (VAS) on the Geostationary Operational ...

    • A Millimeter-Wavelength Dual-Polarization Doppler Radar for Cloud and Precipitation Studies 

      Pasqualucci, F.; Bartram, B. W.; Kropfli, R. A.; Moninger, W. R. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      A pulse Doppler radar system operating at 35 GHz and having full polarization (linear and circular) diversity capability is described. Separate antennas are used for the transmitter and the receiver because this design ...

    • McIDAS III: A Modern Interactive Data Access and Analysis System 

      Suomi, V. E.; Fox, R.; Limaye, S. S.; Smith, W. L. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      A powerful facility for meteorological analysis called the Man Computer Interactive Data Access System (McIDAS) was designed and implemented in the early 1970's at the Space Science and Engineering Center of the University ...

    • Feasibility Test of an Airborne Pulse-Doppler Meteorological Radar 

      Jorgensen, David P.; Hildebrand, Peter H.; Frush, Charles L. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      A vertically scanning, airborne, pulse-Doppler radar is described. Data processing methods to yield pseudo-dual-Doppler horizontal winds are presented. Results of an intercomparison with a ground-based dual-Doppler network ...

    • A Steerable Dual-Channel Microwave Radiometer for Measurement of Water Vapor and Liquid in the Troposphere 

      Hogg, D. C.; Guiraud, F. O.; Snider, J. B.; Decker, M. T.; Westwater, E. R. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      An instrument that remotely senses the integrated amounts of water vapor and liquid on a path through the atmosphere is discussed. The vapor and liquid are measured simultaneously but independently by microwave radiometers. ...

    • Profiling Atmospheric Water Vapor by Microwave Radiometry 

      Wang, J. R.; King, J. L.; Wilheit, T. T.; Szejwach, G.; Gesell, L. H.; Nieman, R. A.; Niver, D. S.; Krupp, B. M.; Gagliano, J. A. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      High-altitude microwave radiometric observations at frequencies near 92 and 183.3 GHz were used to study the potential of retrieving atmospheric water vapor profiles over both land and water. An algorithm based on an ...

    • Monitoring Tropical Cyclone Evolution with NOAA Satellite Microwave Observations 

      Velden, Christopher S.; Smith, William L. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      NOAA satellite microwave soundings, which penetrate high clouds, delineate the development and dissipation of the upper tropospheric warm core associated with a tropical cyclone. The storm's ?core? may be detected from ...

    • An Interactive System for Compositing Digital Radar and Satellite Data 

      Heymsfield, Gerald M.; Ghosh, Koushik K.; Chen, Lily C. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      This paper describes an approach for compositing digital radar data and GOES satellite data for meteorological analysis. The processing is performed on a user-oriented image processing system, and is designed to be used ...

    • Climate Model for Winter Wheat Yield Simulation 

      Hubbard, Kenneth G.; Hanks, R. J. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      Winter wheat yields were simulated by a model requiring climatic data as input for estimating crop evapotranspiration and phenological development. An assumed relationship between the winter wheat yields and the amount and ...

    • Some Essential Details for Application of Bleck's Method to the Collision-Breakup Equation 

      Brown, Philip S. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      Computational problems have been reported in the literature regarding application of Bleck's method to the collision-breakup equation. It is found that straightforward calculation of the Bleck integrals can involve an ...

    • Editorial 

      Unknown author (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
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    • Integral Scales for the Nocturnal Boundary Layer. Part 1: Empirical Depth Relationships 

      Stull, Roland B. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      The stable-layer thickness h and near-surface potential temperature strength ??s, of the nocturnal boundary layer (NBL) are shown to have a ?background? square-root of time dependence. Superimposed upon this background are ...

    • Comparisons of Tetroon and Computed Trajectories 

      Reisinger, Lawrence M.; Mueller, Stephen F. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      Forty-five tetroon flights made during the summer of 1980 for the PEPE/NEROS regions pollution studies, sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, were compared to computed trajectories based on National Weather ...

    • Interannual Variations of Mean Monthly Sea-Level Pressure in January 

      Van Loon, Harry; Madden, Roland A. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      The standard deviations of mean sea-level pressure in January are compared for five discrete 16-year periods between 1901 and 1980. The changes from one period to another are large and larger in the North Atlantic than in ...

    • The Use of High Horizontal Resolution Satellite Temperature and Moisture Profiles to Initialize a Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction Model—A Severe Weather Event Case Study 

      Mills, Graham A.; Hayden, Christopher M. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      This note describes the assimilation of sub-synoptic resolution satellite-derived temperature and moisture profiles into a mesoscale numerical weather prediction model, intended for forecasting the environment of organized ...

    • Mt. St. Helens' Aerosols: Some Tropospheric and Stratospheric Effects 

      Michalsky, J. J.; Stokes, G. M. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      Aerosol optical depth measurements based on the attenuation of direct solar radiation before and after the six major explosive eruptions of Mt. St. Helens during 1980 are presented. These automated measurements are from a ...

    • Severe Storm Observations Using the Microwave Sounding Unit 

      Grody, Norman C. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      The microwave sounding unit (MSU) aboard the NOAA polar orbiting satellites contains four channels in the oxygen band, at 50.30, 53.74, 54.96 and 57.95 GHz, which receive thermal radiation originating primarily from four ...