Journal of Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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Developing Clear-Sky Flux Products for the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
(American Meteorological Society, 2005)This paper describes the planned processing of monthly mean and monthly mean diurnal cycle flux products for the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) experiment. The use of higher-spatial-resolution flux estimates ... -
Validation of a Physical Retrieval Scheme of Solar Surface Irradiances from Narrowband Satellite Radiances
(American Meteorological Society, 2005)An algorithm is presented to derive the downwelling solar surface irradiance from satellite measurements of the 0.63-?m reflectance, which explicitly accounts for variations in cloud optical depth and integrated water ... -
Incorporation of CO2 Exchange Processes into a Multilayer Atmosphere–Soil–Vegetation Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2005)Carbon dioxide (CO2) exchange processes were incorporated into a multilayer atmosphere?soil?vegetation model known as SOLVEG, and its performance was examined using measurements obtained from a grassland site. It was also ... -
Climatologically Aided Mapping of Daily Precipitation and Temperature
(American Meteorological Society, 2005)Accurately mapped meteorological data are an essential component for hydrologic and ecological research conducted at broad scales. A simple yet effective method for mapping daily weather conditions across heterogeneous ... -
Twenty-Four-Hour Observations of the Marine Boundary Layer Using Shipborne NOAA High-Resolution Doppler Lidar
(American Meteorological Society, 2005)Shipborne observations obtained with the NOAA high-resolution Doppler lidar (HRDL) during the 1999 Nauru (Nauru99) campaign were used to study the structure of the marine boundary layer (MBL) in the tropical Pacific Ocean. ... -
A Proposed Solution to the Range–Doppler Dilemma of Weather Radar Measurements by Using the SMPRF Codes, Practical Results, and a Comparison with Operational Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2005)Based on the measurement principles used on incoherent scatter radars, the authors have developed the Simultaneous Multiple Pulse Repetition Frequency (SMPRF) code that is intended to solve the range?Doppler dilemma and ... -
Urban Modifications in a Mesoscale Meteorological Model and the Effects on Near-Surface Variables in an Arid Metropolitan Region
(American Meteorological Society, 2005)A refined land cover classification for the arid Phoenix (Arizona) metropolitan area and some simple modifications to the surface energetics were introduced in the fifth-generation Pennsylvania State University?National ... -
An Integrated Turbulence Scheme for Boundary Layers with Shallow Cumulus Applied to Pollutant Transport
(American Meteorological Society, 2005)A scheme is described that provides an integrated description of turbulent transport in free convective boundary layers with shallow cumulus. The scheme uses a mass-flux formulation, as is commonly found in cumulus schemes, ... -
Deaths, Injuries, and Damages from Lightning in the United States in the 1890s in Comparison with the 1990s
(American Meteorological Society, 2005)A reduction by a factor of 10 in the population-weighted rate of lightning-caused deaths over the last century has been determined in several previous studies. The reasons have been attributed to a number of factors, but ... -
On the Horizontal Scale of Elevation Dependence of Australian Monthly Precipitation
(American Meteorological Society, 2005)Determination of the scale of the interaction between precipitation and topography is important for the accurate interpolation of rainfall in mountainous areas and also provides insight into the physical processes involved. ... -
Effect of Temporal Sampling on Inferred Rainfall Spatial Statistics
(American Meteorological Society, 2005)On the basis of temporally sampled data obtained from satellites, spatial statistics of rainfall can be estimated. In this paper, the authors compare the estimated spatial statistics with their ?true? or ensemble values ... -
A New Empirical Model of the Temperature–Humidity Index
(American Meteorological Society, 2005)A simplified scale of apparent temperature, considering only dry-bulb temperature and humidity, has become known as the temperature?humidity index (THI). The index was empirically constructed and was presented in the form ... -
A Highly Stable Electronic Integrator for Solar Radiation Measurements
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Retrieval of Cloud Microphysical Properties from MODIS and AIRS
(American Meteorological Society, 2005)The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) measurements from the NASA Earth Observing System Aqua satellite enable global monitoring of the distribution of clouds ... -
Generating Multiyear Gridded Daily Rainfall over New Zealand
(American Meteorological Society, 2005)Daily rainfall totals are a key input for hydrological models that are designed to simulate water and pollutant flow through both soil and waterways. Within New Zealand there are large areas and many river catchments where ... -
Improved Radar Ice Water Content Retrieval Algorithms Using Coincident Microphysical and Radar Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2005)Airborne radar reflectivity measurements at frequencies of 9.6 and 94 GHz, with collocated, in situ particle size distribution and ice water content measurements from the Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anvils and Cirrus ... -
Retrieval of Microscale Wind and Temperature Fields from Single- and Dual-Doppler Lidar Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2005)Dual-Doppler lidar observations are used to assess the accuracy of single-Doppler retrievals of microscale wind and temperature fields in a shear-driven convective boundary layer. The retrieval algorithm, which is based ... -
On the Fire Nature of a Subtropical Maritime Island in East Asia: Taiwan
(American Meteorological Society, 2005)Active wild fires over continental landmasses occur in the warm, dry summer. In contrast, in a study by Yen and Chen it was observed that the fire occurrence in Taiwan exhibits an annual variation with a peak in the cool, ... -
Cloud-Base-Height Estimation from Paired Ground-Based Hemispherical Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2005)Total-sky imager (TSI) and hemispheric-sky imager (HSI) each have a hemispherical field of view, and many TSIs are now deployed. These instruments have been used routinely to provide a time series of the fractional sky ... -