Journal of Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions

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    • A Reanalysis of the Wolf Creek Pass Cloud Seeding Experiment 

      Rangno, Arthur L. (American Meteorological Society, 1979)
      A six-season, randomized-by-season cloud seeding experiment consisting of three seeded seasons and three non-seeded seasons was conducted by Colorado State University (CSU) during the middle and late 1960's in the Wolf ...

    • On Sizing Impacted Sulfuric Acid Aerosol Particles 

      Gras, J. L.; Avers, G. P. (American Meteorological Society, 1979)
      The method of sizing sulfuric acid aerosol particles collected by impaction is examined and a new model is proposed. It is found that the volume of a particle with the typical morphology of a central particle surrounded ...

    • A Climatic Classification of Human Thermal Stress in Australia 

      Auliciems, Andris; Kalma, Jetse D. (American Meteorological Society, 1979)
      This paper introduces a human climate classification of Australia based on thermal stress. The classification derives from a new comprehensive scheme in which theoretical and semi-empirical expressions are used for each ...

    • Has the Priestley-Taylor Equation Any Relevance to Forest Evaporation? 

      Shuttleworth, W. James; Calder, Ian R. (American Meteorological Society, 1979)
      Long-term evaporation measurements are expressed in the Priestley-Taylor (1972) ?Potential evaporation? framework for a spruce forest in Plynlimon, Wales, and a Scots Pine forest in Norfolk, England. The results are used ...

    • Air Pollution Transport Studies in a Coastal Zone Using Kinematic Diagnostic Analysis 

      Keen, Cecil S.; Lyons, Walter A.; Schuh, Jerome A. (American Meteorological Society, 1979)
      Data from a mesoscale wind analysis of a vigorous lake/land breeze circulation on 4 September 1974 along the western shoreline of Lake Michigan are available. A computer program takes subjectively analyzed observed and ...

    • Determination of Forest Evapotranspiration Using Bowen Ratio and Eddy Correlation Measurements 

      Spittlehouse, D. L.; Black, T. A. (American Meteorological Society, 1979)
      Rates of evapotranspiration from a 14 m high Douglas fir forest on the southwest coast of British Columbia were obtained using the energy balance/Bowen ratio method and an energy balance/eddy correlation method. In the ...

    • An Areal and Temporal Analysis of Precipitation in the Northeastern United States 

      Scott, Cynthia M.; Shulman, Mark D. (American Meteorological Society, 1979)
      Harmonic analysis, an objective method of analyzing precipitation seasonality, is applied to 1941?70 monthly precipitation normals for nearly 200 stations in the northeastern United States. Our analysis presents distribution ...

    • Raindrop Sizes and Related Parameters for GATE 

      Austin, Pauline M.; Geotis, Spiros G. (American Meteorological Society, 1979)
      Several sets of drop size measurements were made on ships and aircraft during GATE. The data were taken primarily as support for the radar measurements and have been analyzed to provide relations between radar reflectivity ...

    • Path-Averaged Measurements of Rain Rate and Raindrop Size Distribution Using a Fast-Response Optical Sensor 

      Wang, Ting-I.; Earnshaw, K. B.; Lawrence, R. S. (American Meteorological Society, 1979)
      Path-averaged terminal velocity distribution of raindrops is determined from the temporal covariance function of signals from two vertically spaced linear optical detectors that respond to raindrop-induced amplitude ...

    • Thunderstorm Intensity as Determined from Satellite Data 

      Adler, Robert F.; Fenn, Douglas D. (American Meteorological Society, 1979)
      Digital infrared data from a geosynchronous satellite (SMS 2) on 6 May 1975 are used to study thunderstorm vertical growth rates and cloud top structure in relation to the occurrence of severe weather (tornadoes, hail and ...

    • A Diagnostic Examination of a Complementary Relationship between Actual and Potential Evapotranspiration 

      LeDrew, Ellsworth F. (American Meteorological Society, 1979)
      Morton (1969, 1975) proposed that the actual and potential evapotranspiration may behave in a complementary fashion about some definable constant as the regional surface dries from an initial saturated condition. He supported ...

    • A Phase-Locked Loop Continuous Wave Sonic Anemometer-Thermometer 

      Larsen, S. E.; Weller, F. W.; Businger, J. A. (American Meteorological Society, 1979)
      A continuous wave sonic anemometer-thermometer has been developed for simultaneous measurements of vertical velocity and temperature. The phase angle fluctuations are detected by means of a monolithic integrated phase-locked ...

    • Some Statistics of Lagrangian and Eulerian Wind Fluctuations 

      Hanna, Steven R. (American Meteorological Society, 1979)
      The linear relationship u?(t + τ) = u?(t)R(τ) + u?(t) is shown to be approximately valid for Lagrangian and Eulerian wind speed observations in the planetary boundary layer, where t represents any time and t + τ is some ...

    • Comparative Study of Inversion Techniques. Part II: Resolving Power, Conservation of Normalization and Superposition Principles 

      Wolfson, N.; Mekler, Y.; Joseph, J. H. (American Meteorological Society, 1979)
      A new way to assess the resolution of inversion methods is defined. The dependence of resolution on accuracy is broken into three parts, each of which has a distinct practical significance. Representatives of four commonly ...

    • On the Analysis of Single-Doppler Radar Data 

      Waldteufel, P.; Corbin, H. (American Meteorological Society, 1979)
      The procedures currently employed to retrieve vector wind information from single-Doppler radar observations are reviewed briefly. In particular, those procedures implying a linearity hypothesis for the wind field are shown ...

    • Comparative Study of Inversion Techniques. Part I: Accuracy and Stability 

      Wolfson, N.; Joseph, J. H.; Mekler, Y. (American Meteorological Society, 1979)
      Four commonly used families of inversion techniques have been investigated. The accuracy and stability of the Chahine, Twomey?Phillips, Backus?Gilbert and non-linear regression techniques have been evaluated and compared. ...

    • Prediction of the Nocturnal Surface Inversion Height 

      Yamada, Tetsuji (American Meteorological Society, 1979)
      A simple prognostic equation for predicting the development of the nocturnal surface inversion height is constructed from the thermal energy equation. The purpose of the paper is to provide a simple method to estimate the ...

    • CORRIGENDA 

      Unknown author (American Meteorological Society, 1979)
      Correction to Volume 17, Issue 10, page 1482.

    • Case Studies of Gravity Waves Associated with Isolated Tornadic Storms on 13 January 1976 

      Hung, R. J.; Phan, T.; Smith, R. E. (American Meteorological Society, 1979)
      Penetrative convection, thunderstorms, squall lines, etc., all generate atmospheric gravity waves which can be observed by a ground-based ionospheric Doppler sounder array. Sources of these waves can be determined from ...

    • Analysis of Randomized Winter Orographic Cloud Seeding Experiments in Utah 

      Hill, Geoffrey E. (American Meteorological Society, 1979)
      Analysis is made of two randomized winter orographic cloud seeding experiments conducted in the northern Wasatch Mountains. In the first experiment seeding material was released from airborne pyrotechnics and in the second ...