Journal of Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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Meteorological and Chemical Characteristics of the Photochemical Ozone Episodes Observed at Cape D’Aguilar in Hong Kong
(American Meteorological Society, 1998)As in many metropolitan areas around the world, air pollution in Hong Kong is an increasing concern. In this paper the authors present the observations of ozone (O3) pollution episodes made at a nonurban coastal location ... -
Discrimination between Rain and Snow with a Polarimetric Radar
(American Meteorological Society, 1998)Polarimetric signatures of snow precipitation for six Oklahoma snowstorms are examined. The available data consist of specific differential phase KDP, differential reflectivity ZDR, cross-correlation coefficient ?hv, and ... -
Surface Ozone Pattern in Hong Kong
(American Meteorological Society, 1998)Surface ozone (O3) and its precursors in rural and urban areas of Hong Kong are analyzed through the seasonal, temporal, and spatial variation patterns. The seasonal O3 shows a unique pattern with a major peak in autumn ... -
Forecasting and Diagnostic Analysis of Plume Transport around a Power Plant
(American Meteorological Society, 1998)A nonreactive Lagrangian atmospheric diffusion model is used for the simulation of SO2 concentration around the As Pontes 1400-MW power plant located in northwestern Spain. This diffusion model has two kinds of input: 1) ... -
Wind and Diffusion Modeling for Complex Terrain
(American Meteorological Society, 1998)Atmospheric transport and dispersion over complex terrain were investigated. Meteorological and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) concentration data were collected and used to evaluate the performance of a transport and diffusion ... -
Mesoscale Meteorology and High Ozone in the Northeast United States
(American Meteorological Society, 1998)This study examines the relationship between mesoscale meteorological conditions and high-ozone days in the northeastern United States. It is proposed that the leeside trough and the sea-breeze front are two mesoscale ... -
Effects of Topography and Urbanization on Local Winds and Thermal Environment in the Nohbi Plain, Coastal Region of Central Japan: A Numerical Analysis by Mesoscale Meteorological Model with a k−ε Turbulence Model
(American Meteorological Society, 1998)Influence of both urbanization in modified land use in a plain area, the Nohbi Plain of central Japan, and surrounding large-scale topography, such as the Japanese Alps, on the temperature and local wind over the plain has ... -
Development and Application of a Three-Dimensional Taylor–Galerkin Numerical Model for Air Quality Simulation near Roadway Tunnel Portals
(American Meteorological Society, 1998)Since highway traffic has become one of the major emission sources of air pollution, air pollution prediction near roadway tunnel portals is a very important subject. Although many models have been suggested to predict ... -
Modeling Return Periods of Tropical Cyclone Intensities in the Vicinity of Hawaii
(American Meteorological Society, 1998)Tropical cyclones in the vicinity of Hawaii have resulted in great property damage. An estimate of the return periods of tropical cyclone intensities is of particular interest to governments, public interest groups, and ... -
Lidar Observations of Sea-Breeze and Land-Breeze Aerosol Structure on the Black Sea
(American Meteorological Society, 1998)This paper describes results of a lidar study of sea-breeze behavior near Akhtopol in the southeastern corner of Bulgaria. The lidar site was a few hundred meters from the western shore of the Black Sea. Analyses are ... -
Fifth International Conference on Atmospheric Science and Air Quality
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Using the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager to Monitor Land Surface Temperatures, Wetness, and Snow Cover
(American Meteorological Society, 1998)The worldwide network of in situ land surface temperatures archived in near-real time at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) has limited applications, since many areas are poorly represented or provide no observations. ... -
Application of a Threshold Method to Airborne–Spaceborne Attenuating-Wavelength Radars for the Estimation of Space–Time Rain-Rate Statistics
(American Meteorological Society, 1998)A method is proposed for estimating the area-average rain-rate distribution from attenuating-wavelength spaceborne or airborne radar data. Because highly attenuated radar returns yield unreliable estimates of the rain rate, ... -
Rainfall Microphysics and Radar Properties: Analysis Methods for Drop Size Spectra
(American Meteorological Society, 1998)Analyses are performed of experimental drop size spectra to explore the relationships among integral parameters for rain. The data used in this work were acquired with an airborne optical 2D precipitation probe in TOGA ... -
Relevance of Surface Energy Budget within Florida Sea-Breeze Front to Cross-Peninsula Rainwater Runoff Gradient
(American Meteorological Society, 1998)Analysis of surface latent heat flux measurements taken within the sea-breeze front of the coast of Florida during active thunderstorm periods demonstrates an important effect of the timing of coastal storms on the seasonal ... -
Meteorological Applications of Temperature and Water Vapor Retrievals from the Ground-Based Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI)
(American Meteorological Society, 1998)The Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) is a well-calibrated ground-based instrument that measures high-resolution atmospheric emitted radiances from the atmosphere. The spectral resolution of the instrument ... -
Determination of Cloud Liquid Water Path over the Oceans from Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) Data Using Neural Networks
(American Meteorological Society, 1998)A neural network (NN) has been developed in order to retrieve the cloud liquid water path (LWP) over the oceans from Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) data. The retrieval with NNs depends crucially on the SSM/I ... -
Derivation and Applications of Near-Infrared Cloud Reflectances from GOES-8 and GOES-9
(American Meteorological Society, 1998)Recent deployments of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES-8 and -9) include full-time 3.9-?m imaging capabilities. This shortwave (near infrared) ... -
A Stochastic Raindrop Time Distribution Model
(American Meteorological Society, 1998)A disdrometer simultaneously measuring time of arrival and size of raindrops was set up in the Paris, France, area. Data collected over a period of 25 months (May 1992 to May 1994) are presented and analyzed to derive a ... -
Adjustment of GCM Precipitation Intensity over the United States
(American Meteorological Society, 1998)A regression equation is developed to adjust the simulated monthly averaged intensity of hourly precipitation over the continental United States using air temperature at the first model level (about 80 m above ground) ...