Journal of Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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A Model for the Estimation of Global Solar Radiation Using Fuzzy Random Variables
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)In this paper, the concept of fuzzy random variables is applied for the estimation of global solar radiation on a surface at ground level. The cloudiness index is defined as the fraction of extraterrestrial radiation that ... -
Radar Wind Profiler Radial Velocity: A Comparison with Doppler Lidar
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)The accuracy of the radial wind velocity measured with a radar wind profiler will depend on turbulent variability and instrumental noise. Radial velocity estimates of a boundary layer wind profiler are compared with those ... -
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Spatial and Temporal Correlation among Oklahoma Mesonet and OASIS Surface-Layer Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2003)A major challenge in meteorology is determining the manner and scale at which the land surface interacts with the atmosphere. A majority of field programs, designed to address this issue, have been limited in space and ... -
Dynamic Model of Facial Cooling
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)Recent modifications to windchill forecasting have motivated the development of a rate-of-tissue-cooling model for the purpose of predicting facial cooling times. The model assumes a hollow cylindrical geometry with a fixed ... -
Conceptual and Scaling Evaluation of Vehicle Traffic Thermal Effects on Snow/Ice-Covered Roads
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)The potential thermal effects of traffic on road surface thermal energy balance under frost/snow cover conditions have been largely ignored in meteorological evaluations of road ice deposit conditions. Preliminary exploration ... -
Improving Radar-Based Estimation of Rainfall over Complex Terrain
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)This paper investigates a multicomponent radar-based rainfall estimation algorithm that includes optimum parameter estimation and error correction schemes associated with radar operation over mountainous terrain. Algorithm ... -
Enhanced Polarimetric Radar Signatures above the Melting Level in a Supercell Storm
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)Compelling in situ and polarimetric radar observations from a severe Oklahoma supercell storm are presented. The in situ observations are from an aircraft that entered the storm above the main inflow region, sampling the ... -
A Critical Examination of Satellite Cloud Retrieval from AVHRR in the Arctic Using SHEBA Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)This study examines the validity and limitations associated with retrieval of cloud optical depth τ and effective droplet size re in the Arctic from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) channels 2 (0.725?1.10 ... -
Research Aircraft Observations of the Mean and Turbulent Structure of a Low-Level Jet Accompanying a Strong Storm
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)A NOAA P-3 research aircraft collected measurements in a storm off of the U.S. West Coast that featured a low-level jet with wind speeds approaching 50 m s?1. These measurements have been used to document mean and turbulent ... -
The Problem of Extracting Precipitation Information in the Tropics from the UWM/COADS Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)This study employs principal component analysis to correct tropical precipitation estimates in the University of Wisconsin?Milwaukee (UWM)/Comprehensive Ocean?Atmosphere Dataset (COADS) data. The idea was to use a matrix ... -
Mesoscale Convective System Rainfall in the Sahel
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)Based on a full-resolution Meteosat dataset, an extensive climatological study of the mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) observed by satellite over the Sahel leads to the definition of a subpopulation of MCSs?called ... -
The Annual Behavior of the Semidiurnal and Diurnal Pressure Variations in East Antarctica
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)A 15-yr (1980?95) 3-hourly record of surface pressure from the Dome Concordia automatic weather station (74.30°S, 123.00°E; 3280 m MSL), located in East Antarctica, was analyzed to study the annual behavior of the semidiurnal ... -
A Simple Relative Dispersion Model for Concentration Fluctuations in Contaminant Clouds
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)The relative dispersion process for clouds of contaminant in generic atmospheric flow is considered. The properties of the separation distance for pairs of particles are simplified by implicitly averaging over the spatial ... -
Influence of Electrification on Microphysical and Dynamical Processes in a Numerically Simulated Thunderstorm
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)A new three-dimensional dynamics and electrification coupled model is developed to investigate the influence of electrification on microphysical and dynamical processes in thunderstorms. This model includes a four-class ... -
Frontal Rainfall-Rate Distribution and Some Conclusions on the Threshold Method
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)In this paper, the delta function is introduced to describe the observed rainfall-rate distribution including the mixture of discrete and continuous parts. Thus the observed rainfall-rate distribution can be expressed as ... -
Soil Moisture Modeling Based on Multiyear Observations in the Sahel
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)Two simple soil moisture models useful for drought monitoring and climate change studies were proposed, based on 4-yr ground observations of root-zone soil moisture in Sahelian Niger. One is a water balance model that ... -
Investigation of Atmospheric Transmission in the Crimea (Ukraine) in the Twentieth Century
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)Systematic monitoring of spectral atmospheric transmission (SAT) has been conducted in the Crimea (a peninsula in Ukraine) since 1996. A sun-tracking solar photometer that records signals in five spectral regions selected ... -
Evaluation of Biases of Satellite Rainfall Estimation Algorithms over the Continental United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)A bias-adjusted radar rainfall product is created and used for evaluation of two satellite rainfall estimation algorithms. Three years of collocated rainfall estimates from radar, rain gauges, a microwave satellite algorithm, ... -
Evaluation of the Town Energy Balance (TEB) Scheme with Direct Measurements from Dry Districts in Two Cities
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)The Town Energy Balance (TEB) model of Masson simulates turbulent fluxes for urban areas. It is forced with atmospheric data and radiation recorded above roof level and incorporates detailed representations of the urban ...