Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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Snow Cover and Temperature Relationships in North America and Eurasia
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)In this study the snow cover extent during the autumn months in both North America and Eurasia has been related to the ensuing winter temperature as measured at several locations near the center of each continent. The ... -
A Comparison of Sea Surface Temperature Climatologies
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)Six global and two regional Pacific monthly sea surface temperature climatologies were compared. The climatologies were based on either surface marine observations or oceanographic cast (surface plus subsurface temperatures) ... -
On the Bispectral Method for Cloud Parameter Determination from Satellite VISSR Data: Separating Broken Cloud and Semitransparent Cloud
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)Using a physical model, bispectral curves of visible albedo versus infrared brightness temperature are derived for various idealized cloud layers. These layers vary between those which are unbroken with variable optical ... -
Exponential Size Distributions of Raindrops and Vertical Air Motions Deduced from Vertically Pointing Doppler Radar Data Using a New Method
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)Raindrop-size distributions and vertical air motions are deduced from vertically pointing C-band Doppler radar data by using a new method (described in Hauser and Amayenc, 1981) which assumes the raindrop sizes are ... -
Intercomparison of Instruments used for Measurement of Cloud Drop Concentration and Size Distribution
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)Measurements of drop concentration and size distribution with the Clague droplet gun and the Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe in 21 cumulus clouds on five days show no evidence of systematic differences between the ... -
Estimation of Shelter Temperatures from Operational Satellite Sounder Data
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)As a first step in the development of a technique for estimating daily maximum and minimum shelter temperatures for agricultural monitoring, this study made use of operational satellite sounder data to estimate shelter ... -
Improved Cloud Motion Wind Vector and Altitude Assignment Using VAS
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)A CO2 cloud tracking technique to determine simultaneous heights and velocities of cloud motion winds is presented. Using animated CO2 channel imagery from VAS, multi-level cloud situations are separated into high, middle ... -
A Comparison of Two Types of Atmospheric Transport Models—Use of Observed Winds Versus Dynamically Predicted Winds
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)Dynamic and kinematic trajectory Models were used to diagnose long-range transport during a 24-b period of the NEROS (1979) field study. The dynamic model consisted of a three-dimensional primitive equation model which ... -
Changes in the Nature of Fluctuations of Temperature and Liquid Water Content During the Lifetime of a Large-Scale Storm
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)The results of a spectral analysis of the horizontal fluctuations in temperature and liquid water content measured by instrumented aircraft at four altitudes daily during four days in the life-cycle of a storm moving ... -
Dynamical Model Simulation of the Morning Boundary Layer Development in Deep Mountain Valleys
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)A dry, two-dimensional version of the Colorado State University Multi-dimensional Cloud/Mesoscale Model was used to study the cross-valley evolution of the wind and temperature structures in an idealized east-west oriented ... -
Associations Between Anomalies of Temperature and Precipitation in the United States and Western Northern Hemisphere 700 mb Height Profiles
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)The relationship between anomalous seasonal surface temperature and precipitation in the contiguous United States and concomitant fluctuations of western Northern Hemisphere 700 mb height as a function of latitude are ... -
Retrieval of Near-Surface Temperatures from Satellite Data
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)Now that satellite retrieval are being used in global forecasts, there is increased interest in using satellite retrievals for use such as mesoscale forecasts and inputs to crop models. These uses require more accurate ... -
Observations of a Drainage Flow Event on a High-Altitude Simple Slope
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)Observations of a drainage flow event on a high-altitude simple slope were made for a few hours during a five-day field study that was otherwise characterized by high and gusty winds blowing across the face of the slope ... -
An Explanation of Uncertainties in Point Cloudiness/Solar Energy Relationships
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)The uncertainties in average relationships between paint cloudiness and solar energy flux density can largely be accounted for through scatter in the overestimation of cloud shades by point cloudiness. This is demonstrated ... -
Long-Period Tidal Forcing of Indian Monsoon Rainfall: An Hypothesis
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)This paper examines the nature of the periodic components observed in the interannual variability of June rainfall in northern India by using an eigenvector analysis of the spectra of the June rainfall record (1895?1975) ... -
Correlation Analysis of Doppler Radar Data and Retrieval of the Horizontal Wind
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)A technique for tracking patterns of radial velocity and reflectivity data obtained with a single-Doppler radar is described. Application of the technique to two different scans of the same spatial region may lead to the ... -
Effects of External Parameters on the Flow Field in the Coastal Region—A Linear Model
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)The land and sea breeze (LSB) and steady conviction (SC), superimposed on the geostrophic wind U, were analyzed by a linear model, the SC being driven by the diurnal-mean land-sea temperature difference and causing seasonal ... -
Regression-Based Estimation of Long-Term Mean and Variance of Wind Speed at Potential Aerogenerator Sites
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)Regression-based estimators are presented for the long-term mean and variance of wind speed at a potential aerogenerator site. By ?long term? is meant the mean and variance of wind speed which would have been obtained from ... -
A Practical Method of Correcting Monthly Average Temperature Biases Resulting from Differing Times of Observation
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)Biases in monthly average temperatures reported by cooperative weather observers arise from once-daily observations of maximum and minimum temperatures at times of day other than local midnight. A scheme for adjusting these ... -
Number, Mass and Volume Distributions of Mineral Aerosol and Soils of the Sahara
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)A direct method will be described to determine the complete mineral size distribution in aerosol (xylene-insoluble component) and soils (water-insoluble component) covering a size range from 0.01 up to 100 ?m and 1000 ?m ...