Journal of Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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The Development of a Warm-Weather Relative Stress Index for Environmental Applications
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)The heat stress index (HSI) is a new, comprehensive summer index that evaluates daily relative stress for locations throughout the United States based on deviations from the norm. The index is based on apparent temperature ... -
Estimation of Land Surface Temperature over the Tibetan Plateau Using GMS Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)Geostationary Meteorological Satellite Visible/Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer (GMS VISSR) images have been used to estimate diurnal variations of land surface temperature distributions over the Tibetan Plateau. The infrared ... -
Retrieval of Precipitation Profiles from Multiresolution, Multifrequency Active and Passive Microwave Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)In this study, a technique for estimating vertical profiles of precipitation from multifrequency, multiresolution active and passive microwave observations is investigated. The technique is applicable to the Tropical ... -
A Neural Networks–Based Fusion Technique to Estimate Half-Hourly Rainfall Estimates at 0.1° Resolution from Satellite Passive Microwave and Infrared Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a new operational procedure to produce half-hourly rainfall estimates at 0.1° spatial resolution. Rainfall is estimated using a neural networks (NN)?based approach utilizing passive ... -
The Role of Rural Variability in Urban Heat Island Determination for Phoenix, Arizona
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)The effect of rural variability in calculating the urban heat island effect for Phoenix, Arizona, was examined. A dense network of temperature and humidity sensors was deployed across different land uses on an agricultural ... -
Deducing Ground-to-Air Emissions from Observed Trace Gas Concentrations: A Field Trial
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)The gas emission rate Q from an artificial 36-m2 surface area source was inferred from line-average concentration CL measured by an open-path laser situated up to 100 m downwind. Using a backward Lagrangian stochastic (bLS) ... -
Drop Size Distribution Retrieval with Polarimetric Radar: Model and Application
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)Polarimetric radar measurements are used to retrieve properties of raindrop distributions. The procedure assumes that drops are represented by a gamma distribution and retrieves the governing parameters from an empirical ... -
Test Reference Year Generation and Evaluation Methods in the Continental Mediterranean Area
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)Different meteorological data series called multiyear data, long-term average measured data series, or test reference years (TRYs) are required for solar energy system simulation. It is known that the use of the multiyear ... -
Information Content of Infrared Satellite Sounding Measurements with Respect to CO2
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)Information theory is used to study the capabilities of the new-generation satellite infrared sounders [Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) and Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI)] for retrieving atmospheric ... -
An Evaluation of Mesoscale Model Predictions of Down-Valley and Canyon Flows and Their Consequences Using Doppler Lidar Measurements during VTMX 2000
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)A mesoscale model, a Lagrangian particle dispersion model, and extensive Doppler lidar wind measurements during the Vertical Transport and Mixing (VTMX) 2000 field campaign were used to examine converging flows over the ... -
Evaluation of Radar Reflectivity–Based Estimates of Water Content in Stratiform Marine Clouds
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)The performance of radar reflectivity (Ze)?based relations for retrievals of marine stratiform cloud liquid water content (LWC) is evaluated by comparing liquid water path (LWP) estimates from microwave radiometers with ... -
Studying Altocumulus with Ice Virga Using Ground-Based Active and Passive Remote Sensors
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)Mixed-phase clouds are still poorly understood, though studies have indicated that their parameterization in general circulation models is critical for climate studies. Most of the knowledge of mixed-phase clouds has been ... -
Estimating Soil Water Contents from Soil Temperature Measurements by Using an Adaptive Kalman Filter
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)A simple soil heat transfer model is used together with an adaptive Kalman filter to estimate the daily averaged soil volumetric water contents from diurnal variations of the soil temperatures measured at different depths. ... -
Flow in Complex Terrain: Observations by Radar Wind Profilers and Anemometers near Juneau, Alaska
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)Four years of data from three radar wind profilers and collocated anemometers are used to examine the airflow regimes near Juneau, Alaska. Wind direction probability density functions and wind rose histograms show the ... -
Modeling the Surface Energy Balance of the Core of an Old Mediterranean City: Marseille
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)The Town Energy Balance (TEB) model, which parameterizes the local-scale energy and water exchanges between urban surfaces and the atmosphere by treating the urban area as a series of urban canyons, coupled to the Interactions ... -
Estimation of Latent Heating of Rainfall during the Onset of the Indian Monsoon Using TRMM PR and Radiosonde Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)The objective of this study is to estimate the vertical structure of the latent heating of precipitation in the vicinity of the Himalayas. Based on a cloud physics parameterization and the thermodynamic equilibrium equation, ... -
Infrared Radiative Properties of the Antarctic Plateau from AVHRR Data. Part I: Effect of the Snow Surface
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)The effective scene temperature, or ?brightness temperature,? measured in channel 3 (3.5?3.9 ?m) of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) is shown to be sensitive, in principle, to the effective particle ... -
Land Surface Temperature Estimation from the Next Generation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites: GOES M–Q
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)The next generation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES M?Q) will have only one thermal window channel instead of the current two split-window thermal channels. There is a need to evaluate the ... -
Predictability of Precipitation from Continental Radar Images. Part III: Operational Nowcasting Implementation (MAPLE)
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)Filtering of nonpredictable scales of precipitation can be used to improve forecast precision (rms). Previous papers have studied the scale dependence of predictability of patterns of instantaneous rainfall rate and of ... -
Polarimetric Radar Estimators Based on a Constrained Gamma Drop Size Distribution Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2004)Raindrop size distribution (DSD) retrieval from remote radar measurements or from in situ disdrometer measurements is an important area of research. If the shape (?) and slope (?) of a three-parameter gamma distribution ...