Journal of Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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A Bayesian Analysis of Two Probability Models Describing Thunderstorm Activity at Cape Kennedy, Florida
(American Meteorological Society, 1974)Probability models describing the variation in thunderstorm activity at Cape Kennedy, Florida, are presented and analyzed from a Bayesian statistical point of view. This includes a brief outline of a Bayesian analysis of ... -
Discussion of Measurements inside High-Speed Thunderstorm Updrafts
(American Meteorological Society, 1974)Four soundings taken in high-speed updrafts of severe thunderstorms indicate moist adiabatic ascent to mid-levels. This implies that the cores of strong updrafts are undiluted by environmental air. The Squires-Turner ... -
Scale-Interaction Implications for the Waterspout Life Cycle. II
(American Meteorological Society, 1974)The high formation frequency and previously documented life cycle of Florida Keys' waterspouts result from energy and angular momentum cascades through five scales of atmospheric motion, namely the funnel, spiral, cumulus, ... -
The Life Cycle of Florida Keys' Waterspouts. I
(American Meteorological Society, 1974)Detailed, multi-faceted analyses show that waterspouts have a characteristic life cycle consisting of five discrete but overlapping stages: 1) the dark spot, a prominent light-colored disc on the sea surface surrounded by ... -
An Evaluation of Some Thermal Fog Dispersal Experiments
(American Meteorological Society, 1974)Thermal fog dispersal tests were conducted by the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories during July 1972 at Vandenberg AFB, California. The experimental heating system consisted of an array of passive liquid propane ... -
An Investigation of the Relative Importance of Vapor Deposition and Contact Nucleation in Cloud Seeding with AgI
(American Meteorological Society, 1974)In order to determine the relative frequency of contact and deposition nucleation in AgI seeded supercooled clouds, laboratory experiments were carried out in which the supercooled cloud drops were tagged with insoluble ... -
Variation of Lateral Gustiness with Wind Speed
(American Meteorological Society, 1974)The variations of lateral gustiness with wind speed were studied using a light-weight, fast-response wind system coupled to an automatic sampling system. Accuracies of 1° in determining the width of the wind direction ... -
Estimation of Distributions and Maximum Values of Horizontal Wind Speeds
(American Meteorological Society, 1974)Statistical analyses of wind speeds from climatological data and from special studies of short-duration winds suggest that the distributions of the ratios of the time unit (monthly, daily, etc.) to the long-range average ... -
The Derivation of Consistent Fields of Wind and Geopotential Height from Mesoscale Rawinsonde Data
(American Meteorological Society, 1974)With an attainable height resolution of no better than ±10 m from individual soundings, direct analysis of geopotential height gradient from mesoscale rawinsonde ascents could not be expected to produce reliable results. ... -
A Controlled Experiment with One-Dimensional Interpolation
(American Meteorological Society, 1974)The performances of various one-dimensional interpolation schemes are evaluated using mean square errors of the point-wise estimates of the function values and component-wise estimates of the power spectrum. The schemes ... -
Intercomparison of Meteorological Measurement Systems by Data-Adaptive Complementary Filtering
(American Meteorological Society, 1974)The paper presents a technique for designing a self-optimizing filter to combine noisy measurements of the same physical quantity as measured by different instruments into a single time-series representative of the measured ... -
Ice Nucleation by Miersite
(American Meteorological Society, 1974)Miersite, a naturally occurring solid solution of silver iodide and cuprous iodide, can nucleate ice in supercooled water at ?1.42C. The excellent ice nucleation properties of miersite can be attributed to the fact that ... -
Comments on “A Simple but Accurate Formula for the Saturation Vapor Pressure Over Liquid Water”
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Comments “On the Importance of Precision for Short-Range Forecasting and Climate Simulation”
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Estimation of Covariances of Meteorological Parameters Using Local-Time Averages
(American Meteorological Society, 1974)In estimating grid-point states with a multivariate, objective analysis procedure, knowledge of covariances of meteorological parameters observed at several locations is required. It is possible to improve accuracy in ... -
Shearing Stress Meter
(American Meteorological Society, 1974)An improved shearing stress meter (drag plate) of 6 ft (183 cm) diameter has been constructed for micro-meteorological work. This size should enable representative sampling of rough surfaces and is intended particularly ... -
Wind-Tunnel Investigation of Mass Transfer from Soil Corrugations
(American Meteorological Society, 1974)Distribution of local mass-transfer coefficients over saturated corrugated surfaces was measured in a wind tunnel. Wavy (sinusoidal) surfaces were used to represent field corrugations (furrows). Visualization techniques, ...