Journal of Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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Water-Ice and Water-Updraft Relationships near −10°C within Populations of Florida Cumuli
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)From an in-cloud microphysical data set collected in Florida convective towers that were penetrated close to their tops near -10°C, evidence is presented to show a sequential development of cloud water, rainwater, graupel ... -
Vertical Distribution of Aerosol Extinction Cross Section and Inference of Aerosol Imaginary Index in the Troposphere by Lidar Technique
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Vertical profiles of aerosol extinction and backscatter in the troposphere are obtained from multizenith angle lidar measurements. A direct slant path solution was found to be not possible due to horizontal inhomogeneity ... -
Estimating Probabilities of Cloud-Free Fields-of-View From the Earth Through the Atmosphere
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)A model for estimating the probability of obtaining a cloud-free field-of-view as a function of ground-observer-reported total sky cover is presented for earth-to-space viewing applications. The development of the model ... -
Cloud-Active Nuclei from Coal-Fired Electric Power Plants and Their Interactions with Clouds
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)The concentrations of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) in the plumes from coal-fired electric power plants are generally about 2 to 5 times greater than in the ambient air unaffected by the plumes. However, if the ambient ... -
On the Vertical Extrapolation of Mean Wind Power Density
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)A simple method of estimating the height variation of the mean wind power density is presented which accounts for the variation of the exponent p of the wind speed power law, with stability and roughness. Measurements are ... -
Discussion of “Questions Concerning the Possible Influence of Anthropogenic CO2 on Atmospheric Temperature”
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Three-Dimensional Shuman Filter
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Equations for the three-dimensional Shuman filter and its response function are presented. The filter heavily dampens even fairly long waves, but this can be alleviated somewhat by a second amplifying pass (tandem filter). ... -
Daylight Spectra of Individual Lightning Flashes in the 370–690 nm Region
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)An optical multichannel analyzer slit spectrometer coupled to a minicomputer was used to record lightning spectra. This is the first successful application of a slit spectrometer to the study of individual lightning flashes ... -
A Comparison of the Meteorological Conditions Associated with a Major Wildland Fire in the United States and a Major Bush Fire in Australia
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Two days which produced major wildland fires in the eastern United States and southeastern Australia were compared in respect to prevailing weather conditions. Both days were seen as representative of extreme fire weather ... -
Downdrafts as Linkages in Dynamic Cumulus Seeding Effects
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Downdrafts are postulated as a primary linkage dynamically seeded invigorated cloud towers and those events near and below cloud bases which cause enhanced inflow, new tower growth leading to cloud expansion, and frequent ... -
Wind Determination from Nimbus 5 Observations in the 6.3 μm Water Vapor Band
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Temperature Humidity Infrared Radiometer (THIR) data of adjacent Nimbus 5 orbits have been used to derive winds in the upper troposphere from the radiance measured in a wide spectral interval within the 6.3 ?m water vapor ... -
Association of Non-Marine Sulfate Aerosol with Sea Breeze Circulation in Tampa Bay
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Peak concentrations of aerosol sulfur in Tampa, Florida may be the result of either regional-scale transformation and transport processes or local-scale transport from nearby air pollution sources. The existence of the ... -
Comments on “Randomized Cloud Seeding in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado”
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Several aspects of the study by Elliott et al. (1978) of the Colorado River Basin Cloud Seeding Pilot Project are discussed. Issues addressed include the design of the project, the diffusion of the seeding agent, anomalous ... -
Reply
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)An introduction section discusses aspects of the basic design of the CRBPP that are criticized by Rangno and Hobbs (RH). Individual sections reply to the following five aspects of our analysis discussed by RH: diffusion ... -
Regression Forecasting of the Onset of the Indian Summer Monsoon with Antecedent Upper Air Conditions
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)It is shown that the recorded onset dates of the summer monsoon in southwestern India can be closely related functionally to the antecedent upper air conditions. The antecedent upper air conditions are represented by April ... -
Identification of Models for Some Times Series of Atmospheric Origin with Akaike's Information Criterion
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Akaike's method for model identification has been used to identify Markov chain models for simple transformations of daily precipitation at three locations in southern Norway, and wind force and wave height at one location ... -
Numerical Modeling of the Summer Heat Low over Australia
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)One of the most striking synoptic features of the Australian tropics is the well-developed heat low which persists throughout the summer months. In spite of its significance, the heat low has not, up to the present, been ... -
The Inference of GATE Convective Rainfall from SMS-1 Imagery
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Quantitative precipitation estimates have been made for the GARP (Global Atmospheric Research Program) Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE) from geosynchronous, infrared satellite imagery and a computer-automated technique ... -
Hailstorms in Southern Saskatchewan
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)This article represents a first attempt at a climatological investigation of the hail problem in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Initial results from a 5-year study in southern Saskatchewan, carried out through a ... -
Thermography for Estimating Near-Surface Soil Moisture under Developing Crop Canopies
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Previous investigations of thermal infrared techniques using remote sensors (thermography) for estimating soil water content have been limited primarily to bare soil. Ground-based and aircraft investigations were conducted ...