Journal of Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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Satellite-Sensed Winter Nocturnal Temperature Patterns of the Everglades Agricultural Area
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Surface temperature patterns of drained organic soil farmland in the Everglades Agricultural Area south of Lake Okeechobee, Florida, were studied using GOES-1 satellite infrared digital data for the winters of 1976?77 and ... -
Reexamination of Turbidity Measurements Near Page, Arizona, and Navajo Generating Station
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)No abstract available. -
A Statistical Technique for Determining Rainfall over Land Employing Nimbus 6 ESMR Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)At 37 GHz, the frequency at which the Nimbus 6 Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer (ESMR 6) measures upwelling radiance, it has been shown theoretically that the atmospheric scattering and the relative independence ... -
The Assessment of Sultriness. Part II: Effects of Wind, Extra Radiation and Barometric Pressure on Apparent Temperature
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)A scale is derived in which any likely combination of summer temperature, humidity, wind and extra radiation can be expressed as apparent temperature. The effect of extra radiation (direct and indirect insolation; terrestrial ... -
Interannual and Month-to-Month Variations of Wind Speed
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Spatial cross correlations and interannual and month-to-month variations of monthly mean wind speed were studied at 40 sites throughout the United States. Sites were selected on the basis of availability of 10 or more years ... -
Estimating Recurrence Probabilities of Weather Events
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Hourly observations of precipitation, sky cover, ceiling, visibility, wind speed and temperature, taken over a 13-year period at Washington National Airport, Kennedy International Airport and Raleigh-Durham Airport, were ... -
The Priestley-Taylor Evaporation Model Applied to a Large, Shallow Lake in the Netherlands
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)The applicability of the model of Priestley and Taylor (1972) for evaporation of saturated surfaces is examined for the former Lake Flevo (The Netherlands). This lake had an area of about 460 km2 and an average depth of 3 ... -
The Influence of Environmental Parameters on Heat Stress during Exercise
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)A heat budget model to predict heat stress in humans during exercise is developed. The model considers the transfer of heat by conduction/convection from the skin (C), the latent heat due to evaporation from the skin (E), ... -
Approximation Formulas to Calculate Infrared Extinction by an Aerosol Having a Junge Size Distribution
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)The exact Mie curves for the extinction efficiency factor Qe as a function of the normalized size parameter ?=2α(n?1) are approximated by eight continuous linear segments. These linear approximations for Qe are used to ... -
Ridge Regression-Time Extrapolation Applied to Hawaiian Rainfall Normals
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)In this paper ridge regression is introduced as a technique for extrapolating long-period normal rainfalls from short records. The data used are the annual totals for selected stations on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. It has ... -
Observations and Simulations of the Diurnal Variation of the Urban Heat Island Circulation and Associated Variations of the Ozone Distribution: A Case Study
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)The observed surface and upper air temperature and wind field patterns on 8 June 1976 in St. Louis, Missouri, were analyzed and compared with simulation results from a three-dimensional hydrodynamic model. An urban heat ... -
Measurement of the Stratospheric Aerosol Particle Size Distribution
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)A white light photoelectric aerosol detection system suitable for free atmospheric determination of particle concentration from ground level to about 28 km altitude is described. Particle size distributions obtained in ... -
The Small-Particle Response of an Optical Array Precipitation Probe
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)The response characteristics of an optical array precipitation spectrometer probe (PMS-OAP-200Y) have been studied in the laboratory using precision glass beads ejected from a specially constructed air gun. The low-end ... -
Questions Concerning the Possible Influence of Anthropogenic CO2 on Atmospheric Temperature
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Estimates of the atmospheric temperature changes due to a doubling of CO2 concentrations have been with a static radiative flux model. They yield temperature changes >0.25 K. It appears that the much larger changes predicted ... -
A Cloud-Seeding Experiment in Tasmania
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)A cloud-seeding experiment was conducted in Tasmania using a target area and three control areas. Seeding was on a random basis using silver-iodide smoke released from an aircraft. Evidence is presented that seeding increased ... -
The Assessment of Sultriness. Part I: A Temperature-Humidity Index Based on Human Physiology and Clothing Science
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Using as bases the amount of clothing needed to achieve thermal comfort and the reduction in the skin's resistance needed to obtain thermal equilibrium, the relative sultriness of warm-humid and hot-arid summer climates ... -
Questions Concerning the Possible Influence of Anthropogenic CO2 on Atmospheric Temperature
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Estimates of the atmospheric temperature changes due to a doubling of CO2 concentrations have been with a static radiative flux model. They yield temperature changes >0.25 K. It appears that the much larger changes predicted ... -
Urban-Rural Differences in Tower-Measured Winds, St. Louis
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Hourly averaged winds from 30 m towers of the RAMS network (St. Louis region) are analyzed to determine systematic differences between urban and rural wind speed and direction. Previous studies of tower winds in London and ... -
Meteorological Transport of Particulate Material to the South Polar Plateau
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)A series of aerosol measurements were made over the Antarctic Continent, during the austral spring of 1977. Vertical profiles indicate that the highest aerosol concentrations are present in the mixing layer, around the ... -
A Comparison of Interpolation Methods for Sparse Data: Application to Wind and Concentration Fields
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)In order to produce gridded fields of pollutant concentration data and surface wind data for use in an air quality model, a number of techniques for interpolating sparse data values are compared. The techniques are compared ...