Journal of Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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Comments on “Rainfall Modification by Major Urban Areas: Observations from Spaceborne Rain Radar on the TRMM Satellite”
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Comments on “Modeling of Convective–Stratiform Precipitation Processes: Sensitivity to Partitioning Methods”
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(American Meteorological Society, 2004)Diem et al. have responded with critical comments as to whether urbanization-enhanced precipitation is maximized in the south-southeast of Atlanta, Georgia, as was recently documented by Shepherd et al. The reply herein ... -
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Using EOF Analysis to Identify Important Surface Wind Patterns in Mountain Valleys
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)Empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs) have been determined for three wind datasets from stations in valleys south of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Two of the datasets were for summer months, with individual days selected ... -
Impact of Precipitation on Aerosol Spectral Optical Depth and Retrieved Size Distributions: A Case Study
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)A case study is presented on the impact of two isolated, strong thundershowers during a prevailing dry, sunny season on the spectral optical depths and inferred columnar size characteristics of atmospheric aerosols at a ... -
Estimation of Long-Term Climate Information at Locations with Short-Term Data Records
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)The accurate mapping of climate has widespread interest and benefit and depends on the availability of long-term data. Accuracy increases with the amount of data, but, often, insufficient data exist for the desired accuracy. ... -
Validation of Maritime Rainfall Retrievals from the TRMM Microwave Radiometer
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)This study compares the surface rainfall retrieved from the Goddard profiling (GPROF; version 5) algorithm with Kwajalein ground-based radar (KR) observations at 0.1°, 0.25°, and 1° resolutions. Comparisons of the ... -
Modeling Carbon Sequestration over the Large-Scale Amazon Basin, Aided by Satellite Observations. Part I: Wet- and Dry-Season Surface Radiation Budget Flux and Precipitation Variability Based on GOES Retrievals
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)In this first part of a two-part investigation, large-scale Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) analyses over the Amazônia region have been carried out for March and October of 1999 to provide detailed ... -
A Cloud Fraction versus View Angle Technique for Automatic In-Scene Evaluation of the MISR Cloud Mask
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)The Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR), on board the Earth Observing System (EOS) satellite Terra, is the first high-resolution imager to make global, near-simultaneous multispectral and multiangle radiometric ... -
Cluster Analysis of 4-Day Back Trajectories Arriving in the Barcelona Area, Spain, from 1997 to 2002
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)A cluster algorithm was implemented to analyze the backward trajectories arriving in the Barcelona area (BCN), located at the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. Five years of 4-day kinematic back trajectories, computed ... -
A New Transport Index for Predicting Episodes of Extreme Air Pollution
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)A new index that characterizes a typical length of horizontal and vertical transport is proposed to predict meteorological conditions that are unfavorable for the dispersion of air pollution. This index can be easily ... -
Classification of Thunderstorms over India Using Multiscale Analysis of AMSU-B Images
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)The structure of thunderstorms has been studied for a long time. In the absence of radar coverage, only high- resolution multifrequency satelliteborne sensors of longer wavelengths (i.e., microwaves) can show structures ... -
An Empirical Relation Describing Leaf-Area Density inside the Forest for Environmental Modeling
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)The spatial distribution of the leaf-area density is a key parameter in describing the forest canopy characteristics, which has a strong impact on its radiation balance and the mass and energy exchange with the atmosphere ... -
Laboratory and In Situ Observation of Deposition Growth of Frozen Drops
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)The water vapor deposition growth of frozen drops with diameter greater than 100 ?m has been studied in a thermal diffusion chamber. For varying periods of time, it was found that frozen drops experience spherical growth. ... -
Lagrangian Methods for Climatological Analysis of Regional Atmospheric Transport
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)A quantitative climatological analysis of regional-scale atmospheric transport in Texas is developed using previously described Lagrangian (kinematic) trajectory methods. The trajectories are computed using resolved winds ... -
Comparisons of Transport and Dispersion Model Predictions of the URBAN 2000 Field Experiment
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)The tracer releases of the ?URBAN 2000? urban tracer and meteorological field experiment conducted in Salt Lake City, Utah, in October 2000 provided a wealth of data for comparison with the predictions of transport and ... -
Synergetic Use of GPS Water Vapor and Meteosat Images for Synoptic Weather Forecasting
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)The use of integrated water vapor (IWV) measurements from a ground-based global positioning system (GPS) for nowcasting is described for a cold front that passed the Netherlands during 16 and 17 May 2000. Meteosat water ... -
Fire Nature of a Subtropical Maritime Island in East Asia: Taiwan
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)Twelve years (1985?96) of monthly house fire reports for 22 districts in Taiwan, a maritime subtropical island of east Asia, were analyzed to characterize its fire nature. The major effort focused on the identification of ... -
Climatological Validation of TRMM TMI and PR Monthly Rain Products over Oklahoma
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)This paper reports the results from a regional validation study of monthly precipitation products generated from sensor measurements aboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite. The study analyzed 4 yr ...