Journal of Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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Studies of Silver Iodide Ice-Forming Activity: Verification of Theory
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)The dependence of the ice-forming activity on particle radius over the range 50 to 3000 Å at fog temperatures of ?5, ?10 and ?20°C has been obtained. It has been found by diffraction methods that silver iodide particles ... -
Stochastic Analysis of Annual Rainfall Affected by Urbanization
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Several investigators have pointed out the changes in microclimate brought about by large urban areas. In particular, the precipitation and precipitation-related activity have been shown to be larger in and around urban ... -
An Objective Analysis Technique for Constructing Three-Dimensional Urban-Scale Wind Fields
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)An objective analysis procedure for generating mass-consistent, urban-scale three-dimensional wind fields is presented together with a comparison against existing techniques. The algorithm employs terrain following coordinates ... -
Acoustic Sounder Observations of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer from the Top of a Steep Mountain
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Preliminary results from a series of experiments utilizing an acoustic sounder located at the top of a 1026 m mountain are presented which show some interesting features of the evolution of the atmospheric boundary layer. -
Radiative Effects of Elevated Pollutant Layers on Temperature Structure and Dispersion in an Urban Atmosphere
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)An unsteady two-dimensional transport model has been used to study the short-term effects of elevated pollutant layers on the temperature structure and pollutant dispersion in an urban planetary boundary layer. The effects ... -
The Relationship between the Gradient of Satellite-Derived Radiance and Upper Tropospheric/Lower Stratospheric Winds
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)It is shown that the gradient of satellite-derived radiance is proportional to a certain vertical integral of the geostrophic wind. The radiance gradient is shown to be useful in locating the upper tropospheric jet maxima ... -
Stratospheric Aerosol Modification by Supersonic Transport and Space Shuttle Operations—Climate Implications
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)We have estimated the potential effects on stratospheric aerosols of supersonic transport emissions of sulfur dioxide gas and submicron soot granules, and space shuttle rocket emissions of aluminum oxide particulates. ... -
The Effect of and Correction for Different Wet-Bulb and Dry-Bulb Response in Thermocouple Psychrometry
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Fast-responding thermocouple psychrometers are often used in atmospheric boundary-layer turbulence measurements for the computation of heat and moisture fluxes. Small size, low cost, ease of interchange-ability and the use ... -
On the Temporal Decay of the Relationship between Environmental Covariates and Convective Rainfall for the Kansas High Plains
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Covariates derived from 1200 GMT tropospheric soundings taken for 13 June at Dodge City, Kansas, were compared with 3 h rainfall within the surrounding area. Correlation magnitudes decreased beginning with the first period ... -
A Short Method of Generating Meteorological Fields for Simulation Studies
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)We present a computationally convenient method whereby system designers can generate multidimensional meteorological fields for simulation modeling. The procedure, based in digital filtering, efficiently produces large ... -
A Tall-Tower Instrument System for Mean and Fluctuating Velocity, Fluctuating Temperature and Sensible Heat Flux Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)For an ongoing elevated-source, urban-scale tracer experiment, an instrument system to measure the three-dimensional wind velocity and the turbulent sensible heat flux was developed. The wind velocity was measured with a ... -
Instantaneous Rainfall Rate: Its Measurement and Its Influence on High-Voltage Transmission Lines
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)When a high-voltage transmission line is exposed to rain there is generally a small amount of corona activity at the surface of the conductors. This activity usually results in a power loss and the generation of audible ... -
Development of a Synoptic Climatology for the Northeast Gulf of Alaska
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)The subjective, sea level pressure-based, synoptic climatologies of Sorkina and Putnins have been specialized for the coastal region of southern Alaska. The results of the subjective typing were compared to the automated ... -
Comparison of Mean Wind Speeds and Turbulence at a Coastal Site and Offshore Location
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Observations of mean wind speed and longitudinal turbulence at a height of 8 m over the Atlantic ocean, 5 km off Long Island, New York, were compared with simultaneous observations at the beach. Results were grouped into ... -
LACIE—An Application of Meteorology for United States and Foreign Wheat Assessment
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)The development of a critical world food situation during the early 1970's was the background leading to the Large Area Crop Inventory Experiment (LACIE). The need was to develop a capability for timely monitoring of crops ... -
Results of a Randomized Hail Suppression Experiment in Northeast Colorado. Part IX: Overall Discussion and Summary in the Context of Physical Research
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)The three-year, randomized hail suppression test of the National Hail Research Experiment (NHRE) used seeding methods patterned after the Soviet hail suppression activities, applied over a specified target area on a randomly ... -
Results of a Randomized Hail Suppression Experiment in Northeast Colorado. Part VIII: The Representative Draw Analysis
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)A detailed analysis is made of the environmental conditions existing on each of the declared hail days during the randomized seeding experiment. From the many soundings available each day, the one most representative of ... -
An Application of a Geostationary Satellite Rain Estimation Technique to an Extratropical Area
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)The use of geostationary satellite data for estimating precipitation in non-tropical areas was explored with data taken in Montreal, Canada. The previous studies using geostationary images for rain estimation have concentrated ... -
A Joint Lidar Solar Radiometer Experiment
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Remote sensing of the lower atmosphere by lidar yields profiles of the backscattering cross section along the optical path. These may be simply converted to give a qualitative picture of the distribution of atmospheric ...