Journal of Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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A Method for Estimating Crop Losses from Hail in Uninsured Periods and Regions
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)The insurance industry, insurance regulatory bodies, and scientists investigating climate change all desire long records of hail losses. Existing loss records for some states cover the 1948?present period; this span is ... -
Turbulence and Dispersion Studies Using a Three-Dimensional Second-Order Closure Eulerian Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)A three-dimensional second-order closure meteorological and pollutant dispersion model is developed, and the computed results are evaluated. A finite-element method is used to solve the governing equations because of its ... -
The Operational Complex Quality Control of Radiosonde Heights and Temperatures at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction. Part I: Description of the Method
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)The quality control of meteorological data has always been an important, if not always fully appreciated, step in the use of the data for analysis and forecasting. In most quality-control approaches, erroneous data are ... -
The Limb Adjustment of AMSU-A Observations: Methodology and Validation
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)The Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) is the first of a new generation of polar-orbiting cross-track microwave sounders operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A feature of a cross-track ... -
Uncertainties in Episodic Ozone Modeling Stemming from Uncertainties in the Meteorological Fields
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)This paper examines the uncertainty associated with photochemical modeling using the Variable-Grid Urban Airshed Model (UAM-V) with two different prognostic meteorological models. The meteorological fields for ozone episodes ... -
A High-Resolution Analysis of Cloud Amount and Type over Complex Topography
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)This paper reports on the first application of a multispectral textural Bayesian cloud classification algorithm (?SRTex?) to the general problem of the determination of high?spatial resolution cloud-amount and cloud-type ... -
A Numerical Study of the Effect of GOES Sounder Cloud-Cleared Brightness Temperatures on the Prediction of Hurricane Felix
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)The influence of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) brightness temperature data on the numerical simulations of Hurricane Felix is investigated. Satellite data are included as an augmentation to a ... -
Comparison of Precipitable Water Observations in the Near Tropics by GPS, Microwave Radiometer, and Radiosondes
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)The sensing of precipitable water (PW) using the Global Positioning System (GPS) in the near Tropics is investigated. GPS data acquired from the Central Weather Bureau?s Taipei weather station in Banchao (Taipei), Taiwan, ... -
EDITORIAL
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Toward the Operational Application of Hygroscopic Flares for Rainfall Enhancement in South Africa
(American Meteorological Society, 2000)A major challenge of any operational cloud seeding project is the evaluation of the results. This paper describes the development of verification techniques based on data collected during the first South African operational ... -
Factors Influencing Volcanic Ash Dispersal from the 1995 and 1996 Eruptions of Mount Ruapehu, New Zealand
(American Meteorological Society, 2001)The prediction of the dispersal of volcanic ash from events such as the Ruapehu eruptions of 1995 and 1996 is important, not only for civil-defense authorities who need to warn people in downwind areas, but for airline ... -
Remote Measurement of Turbulent Wind Spectra by Heterodyne DopplerLidar Technique
(American Meteorological Society, 2000)Heterodyne Doppler lidars (HDLs) are used to monitor atmospheric wind field and wind turbulence at remote distance. This last application calls for the derivation of wind spectra, which can be characterized by the dissipation ... -
CORRIGENDUM
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The Dependence of TOA Reflectance Anisotropy on Cloud Properties Inferred from ScaRaB Satellite Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2000)An angular dependence model (ADM) describes the anisotropy in the reflectance field. ADMs are a key element in determining the top-of-the-atmosphere (TOA) albedos and radiative fluxes. This study utilizes 1-yr satellite ... -
Calibrating a Coupled SVAT–Vegetation Growth Model with Remotely Sensed Reflectance and Surface Temperature—A Case Study for the HAPEX-Sahel Grassland Sites
(American Meteorological Society, 2000)Models simulating the seasonal growth of vegetation have been recently coupled to soil?vegetation?atmosphere transfer schemes (SVATS). Such coupled vegetation?SVATS models (V?S) account for changes of the vegetation leaf ... -
CORRIGENDUM
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Sea Fog around the Korean Peninsula
(American Meteorological Society, 2000)There are many island stations that routinely observe sea fog around the Korean peninsula. Historical daytime sea fog data were used to investigate the relationships between sea fog occurrence and its associated environmental ... -
The Coherence Time of Midtropospheric Wind Features as a Function of Vertical Scale from 300 m to 2 km
(American Meteorological Society, 2000)The coherence between vertical wind profiles separated by a time lag is measured as a function of vertical scale from Doppler radar wind profiler data. Each profile covers altitudes from 6811 m to 16?261 m and is Fourier ... -
Cloud-Base Height Estimates Using a Combination of Meteorological Satellite Imagery and Surface Reports
(American Meteorological Society, 2000)This paper describes how the combination of a satellite-derived cloud classification with surface observations can improve analysis of cloud-base height. A cloud-base retrieval that combines a cloud classification derived ... -
Forcing of the Summertime Low-Level Jet along the California Coast
(American Meteorological Society, 2000)Coast-parallel low-level jets are commonplace in the offshore environment along the west coast of the United States during summer. The jet often has wind speeds in excess of 30 m s?1 and is typically situated near the top ...