Journal of Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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Modeled Downward Transport of a Passive Tracer over Western North America during an Asian Dust Event in April 1998
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)An intense Gobi Desert dust storm in April 1998 loaded the midtroposphere with dust that was transported across the Pacific to western North America. The Mesoscale Compressible Community (MC2) model was used to investigate ... -
Blending Multiresolution Satellite Data with Application to the Initialization of an Orographic Precipitation Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)The use of multisensor, multifrequency satellite data to specify initial conditions for numerical weather prediction (NWP) models offers a unique opportunity to improve the depiction of small-scale processes in the atmosphere ... -
Fine Structure of Cloud Droplet Concentration as Seen from the Fast-FSSP Measurements. Part I: Method of Analysis and Preliminary Results
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)A statistical analysis of a series of droplet arrival times measured by the Fast Forward-Scattering Spectrometer Probe (FSSP) during aircraft flights in cumulus clouds was conducted. The main purpose of the analysis was ... -
A Case Study of the Variational Assimilation of GPS Zenith Delay Observations into a Mesoscale Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)Results from a case study of the four-dimensional variational assimilation of total zenith delay (TZD) observations from a dense global positioning system (GPS) network into the Pennsylvania State University?National Center ... -
Evaluation of the Operational Multiscale Environment Model with Grid Adaptivity against the European Tracer Experiment
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)The Operational Multiscale Environment Model with Grid Adaptivity (OMEGA) is a multiscale nonhydrostatic atmospheric simulation system based on an adaptive unstructured grid. The basic philosophy behind the OMEGA development ... -
A Texture-Polarization Method for Estimating Convective–Stratiform Precipitation Area Coverage from Passive Microwave Radiometer Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)Observational and modeling studies have revealed the relationships between convective?stratiform rain proportion and the vertical distributions of vertical motion, latent heating, and moistening in mesoscale convective ... -
Surface Delays for Gases Dispersing in the Atmosphere
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)When a particle descends beneath the (nominal) lower boundary of the atmosphere, it may remain there for some time τ before it reemerges into the (resolved) flow. In particle trajectory models, τ is the random duration of ... -
Estimation of Wind Speed Distribution Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)The Weibull distribution is the most commonly used statistical distribution for describing wind speed data. Maximum likelihood has traditionally been the main method of estimation for Weibull parameters. In this paper, ... -
Evaluation of the Jacobians of Infrared Radiation Models for Variational Data Assimilation
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)In this paper, linearized versions of fast infrared radiative transfer schemes for variational data assimilation are studied. A neural network?based infrared broadband radiation model (NeuroFlux) is compared with the ... -
Simple Adjoint Retrievals of Wet-Microburst Winds and Gust-Front Winds from Single-Doppler Radar Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)The simple adjoint method for retrieving the low-altitude winds from single-Doppler scans is modified and tested for two events: the wet-microburst event and the gust-front event observed simultaneously by two radars during ... -
Dry and Moist Convection Forced by an Urban Heat Island
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)This study numerically investigates dry and moist convection forced by an urban heat island using a two-dimensional, nonhydrostatic, compressible model with explicit cloud microphysical processes (Advanced Regional Prediction ... -
Representation of the Canopy Conductance in Modeling the Surface Energy Budget for Low Vegetation
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)In this study, the authors develop and validate an approach to calculate a canopy conductance that can successfully be implemented in an atmospheric model. The approach is based on plant physiology approaches that have ... -
GOES Multispectral Rainfall Algorithm (GMSRA)
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)A multispectral approach is used to optimize the identification of raining clouds located at a given altitude estimated from the cloud-top temperature. The approach combines information from five channels on the National ... -
Overland Precipitation Estimation from TRMM Passive Microwave Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)Procedures for passive microwave precipitation estimation over land are investigated based on a large database of Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) observations. The procedures include components for rain area ... -
Remote Sensing of Precipitation on the Tibetan Plateau Using the TRMM Microwave Imager
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)The Tibetan Plateau is a unique location for studying the global climate and China's severe weather. The precipitation on the Tibetan Plateau can be studied conveniently with the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) ... -
Characteristics of the Raindrop Size Distribution in Tropical Continental Squall Lines Observed in Darwin, Australia
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)Disdrometer data measured during the passage of tropical continental squall lines in Darwin, Australia, are analyzed to study characteristics of raindrop size distribution (DSD). Fifteen continental squall lines were ... -
Daily Air Temperature and Electricity Load in Spain
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)Weather has a significant impact on different sectors of the economy. One of the most sensitive is the electricity market, because power demand is linked to several weather variables, mainly the air temperature. This work ... -
Two-Dimensional Vector Wind Fields from Volume Imaging Lidar Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)Spatially resolved wind fields are derived by cross correlation of aerosol backscatter data from horizontal and vertical scans of the University of Wisconsin volume imaging lidar during the 1997/98 Lake-Induced Convection ... -
Polarimetric Radar Observations of Hail Formation
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)Analyses are made of the evolution of selected polarimetric radar data fields during periods immediately preceding the onset of near-surface hail indicators [high reflectivity and low differential reflectivity (Zdr)] in ...