Journal of Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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Observations of Typhoon Melissa during the Lidar In-Space Technology Experiment (LITE)
(American Meteorological Society, 2003)The Lidar In-Space Technology Experiment (LITE) provided the first high-resolution (15 m) vertical profiling of clouds and aerosols from space. The LITE instrument flew aboard the space shuttle as its prime payload during ... -
Block-Iterative Method of Solving the Nonhydrostatic Pressure in Terrain-Following Coordinates: Two-Level Pressure and Truncation Error Analysis
(American Meteorological Society, 2003)A technique for the treatment of the pressure in anelastic, nonhydrostatic terrain-following coordinates is described. It involves the use of two levels of pressure in such a manner so as to ensure that the anelastic ... -
The Case for Using Blunt-Tipped Lightning Rods as Strike Receptors
(American Meteorological Society, 2003)Conventional lightning rods used in the United States have sharp tips, a practice derived from Benjamin Franklin's discovery of a means to obtain protection from lightning. However, the virtue of sharp tips for strike ... -
Air Transport into and out of the Industrial Highveld Region of South Africa
(American Meteorological Society, 2003)Eolian dust and industrially derived sulfur aerosols have been shown to be major summer and winter constituents of the ubiquitous southern African haze layer. Industrial emissions from the South African industrialized ... -
A Comparison of VHF Wind Profiler Observations and the NCEP–NCAR Reanalysis over the Tropical Pacific
(American Meteorological Society, 2003)VHF wind profiler measurements of zonal and meridional winds are compared with the NCEP?NCAR reanalysis at sites in the tropical Pacific. By December 1999 the profilers at Darwin, Australia, and Biak, Indonesia, in the ... -
Long-Range Forecasting of the Nile River Flows Using Climatic Forcing
(American Meteorological Society, 2003)Correlation analysis is used to determine the linear relationship between the Nile River flows and leading climatic indicators, such as SST and precipitation, in an effort to establish a basis for quantitative long-term ... -
Nighttime Multilayered Cloud Detection Using MODIS and ARM Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2003)This study reports on recent progress toward the discrimination between pixels containing multilayered clouds, specifically optically thin cirrus overlying lower-level water clouds, and those containing single-layered ... -
Results of On-Top Glaciogenic Cloud Seeding in Thailand. Part I: The Demonstration Experiment
(American Meteorological Society, 2003)Randomized, cold-cloud, rain-enhancement experiments were carried out during 1991?98 in the Bhumibol catchment area in northwestern Thailand. Exploratory experimentation in 1991 and 1993 suggested increases in rainfall ... -
Results of On-Top Glaciogenic Cloud Seeding in Thailand. Part II: Exploratory Analyses
(American Meteorological Society, 2003)Randomized, cold-cloud, rain-enhancement experiments were carried out during 1991?98 in the Bhumibol catchment area in northwestern Thailand. Exploratory experimentation in 1991 and 1993 was followed by a demonstration ... -
Mean Structure of the Nocturnal Boundary Layer under Strong and Weak Wind Conditions: EPRI Case Study
(American Meteorological Society, 2003)The major objective of this study was to analyze the mean structure and evolution of the nocturnal boundary layer (NBL) under strong and weak wind conditions. Meteorological data collected during the plume-validation ... -
Urban Modification of Freezing-Rain Events
(American Meteorological Society, 2003)A new national database for freezing-rain occurrences during the 1945?2000 period provided an opportunity for a study of the potential urban effects on freezing-rain events. Numerous past studies of snowfall events in urban ... -
An Aerosol Climatology at Kyoto: Observed Local Radiative Forcing and Columnar Optical Properties
(American Meteorological Society, 2003)In order to evaluate the radiative effect of the atmospheric aerosol at Kyoto, Japan, surface solar irradiance and columnar aerosol optical properties were observed in the period between September 1998 and December 2001. ... -
Diurnal Covariation in Soil Heat Flux and Net Radiation
(American Meteorological Society, 2003)Diurnal variation in soil heat flux is a key constraint on the amount of energy available for sensible and latent heating of the lower troposphere. Many studies have demonstrated that soil heat flux G is strongly correlated ... -
Antarctic Cloud Radiative Forcing at the Surface Estimated from the AVHRR Polar Pathfinder and ISCCP D1 Datasets, 1985–93
(American Meteorological Society, 2003)Surface cloud radiative forcing from the newly extended Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Polar Pathfinder (APP-x) dataset and surface cloud radiative forcing calculated using cloud and surface properties ... -
Global Pressure Fields from Scatterometer Winds
(American Meteorological Society, 2003)A method is presented for computing global surface pressure fields from satellite scatterometer winds. Pressure gradients are estimated using a two-layer similarity planetary boundary layer model in the midlatitudes and a ... -
Incorporating TOMS Ozone Measurements into the Prediction of the Washington, D.C., Winter Storm during 24–25 January 2000
(American Meteorological Society, 2003)In this study, a methodology is proposed for incorporating total column ozone data from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) into the initial conditions of a mesoscale prediction model. Based on the strong correlation ... -
Comparison of TRMM Precipitation Radar and Airborne Radar Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2003)The first spaceborne weather radar is the precipitation radar (PR) on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), which was launched in 1997. As part of the TRMM calibration and validation effort, an airborne rain-mapping ... -
Cold-Air-Pool Structure and Evolution in a Mountain Basin: Peter Sinks, Utah
(American Meteorological Society, 2003)The evolution of potential temperature and wind structure during the buildup of nocturnal cold-air pools was investigated during clear, dry, September nights in Utah's Peter Sinks basin, a 1-km-diameter limestone sinkhole ... -
Coupled Model Simulation of Snowfall Events over the Black Hills
(American Meteorological Society, 2003)Numerical simulations of two snowfall events over the Black Hills of South Dakota are made to demonstrate the use and potential of a coupled atmospheric and land surface model. The Coupled Atmospheric?Hydrologic Model ... -
AVHRR-Derived Land Surface Conditions for Flux Simulations with a Mesoscale Model over the HAPEX-Sahel Study Area
(American Meteorological Society, 2003)The description of land surface conditions at a spatial scale adapted to climate and meteorological models is at the core of major problems in environment studies. In this regard, the information routinely provided by ...