Journal of Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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Estimation of Cloud Content by W-Band Radar
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)W-band (3.2-mm) radars are seeing increasing utilization as a result of improving microwave technologies and the increased research emphasis being given to nonprecipitating clouds. This niche is exemplified by the study ... -
A Coupled Atmosphere Fire Model: Convective Feedback on Fire-Line Dynamics
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)The object of this paper is to describe and demonstrate the necessity and utility of a coupled atmosphere-fire model: a three-dimensional, time-dependent wildfire simulation model, based on the primitive equations of motion ... -
Flux Measurements of Pulsating Rain with a Disdrometer and Doppler Radar during Phase II of the Joint Tropical Rain Experiment in Malaysia
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)During the Joint Tropical Rain Experiment of the Malaysian Meteorological Service and the University of Toronto, pulsating raindrop ensembles, hereafter pulses, were observed in and around Penang Island. Using a Doppler ... -
Satellite Cloud Classification and Rain-Rate Estimation Using Multispectral Radiances and Measures of Spatial Texture
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)Twelve months of Southern Hemisphere (maritime) midlatitudes Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer local area coverage data at full radiometric and spatial resolution have been collocated with rain-rate data from three ... -
GPS Meteorology: Direct Estimation of the Absolute Value of Precipitable Water
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)A simple approach to estimating vertically integrated atmospheric water vapor, or precipitable water, from Global Positioning System (GPS) radio signals collected by a regional network of ground-based geodetic GPS receiver ... -
Numerical Investigations on the Influence of Subgrid-Scale Surface Heterogeneity on Evapotranspiration and Cloud Processes
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)Numerical experiments were performed with a meso-?-scale meteorological model to investigate the influence of subgrid-scale surface heterogeneity on the prediction of evapotranspiration, cloud, and precipitation formation. ... -
Temporal Variations in the Scaling Properties of Rain Echoes during the Development of a Cold Low in Saskatchewan
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)A better understanding of the scaling properties of rain could assist in parameterizing rain events in hydrological models and support the development of improved ?weather generators.? A technique developed for the analysis ... -
Satellite Microphysical Retrievals for Land-Based Fog with Validation by Balloon Profiling
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)Digital data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Advanced very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) satellite instrument provides multispectral images in visible near-infrared and thermal infrared wave ... -
A Study of Near-Surface Winds in Marine Cyclones Using Multiple Satellite Sensors
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)Synoptic-scale surface wind fields are developed using data from two Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/1) passive radiometers and the European Remote Sensing Satellite-1 (ERS-1) scatterometer for the lifetime of two ... -
Consistency of Modeling the Water Budget over Long Time Series: Comparison of Simple Parameterizations and a Physically Based Model
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)This paper investigates the treatment of the soil water budget of two parametric models currently used in atmospheric models for climate studies. Because the parametric models are intended to represent areally averaged ... -
Are the El Niño and La Niña Predictors of the Iowa River Seasonal Flow?
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)The association between the El Niño/La Niña and seasonal streamflow for the Iowa River is investigated. The seasonal Southern Oscillation index (SOI) was ranked and the extreme quartiles for each season were selected to ... -
Parameterization of Heterogeneous Droplet Chemistry for Use in Bulk Cloud Models
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)Comparison of in-cloud sulfate production by a bulk-parameterized cloud model, a modified bulk parameterized model, and an explicit microphysical model for a wide variety of scenarios has been used as the basis for deriving ... -
Machine Learning of Maritime Fog Forecast Rules
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)In recent years, the field of artificial intelligence has contributed significantly to the science of meteorology, most notably in the now familiar form of expert systems. Expert systems have focused on rules or heuristics ... -
Extreme-Value Statistics for Snowpack Water Equivalent in the Northeastern United States Using the Cooperative Observer Network
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)A procedure is developed to estimate extreme-value statistics for snowpack water equivalent (SWE) using historical snow depth measurements at cooperative observer stations in the northeastern United States. The method ... -
Development of a Coupled Leaf and Canopy Model for the Simulation of Plant-Atmosphere Interaction
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)A numerical scheme was developed to couple a multilayer canopy radiation model, a photosynthesis model for C3 species, and a leaf stomatal conductance model with a single-leaf energy balance equation. This coupled leaf and ... -
Medium-Range Forecasting for the Number of Daily Forest Fires
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)In an earlier work, the authors introduced an objective forecast model for a 24-h prediction of the number of daily forest fires based on a 2-day lag autoregressive model. The meteorological inputs required for this model ... -
Improved Magnus Form Approximation of Saturation Vapor Pressure
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)Algorithms, based on Magnus's form equations, are described that minimize the difference between several relationships between temperature and water vapor pressure at saturation that are commonly used in archiving data. ... -
Comments on “MARIAH-A Similarity-Based Method for Determining Wind, Temperature, and Humidity Profile Structure In the Atmospheric Surface Layer”
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A Procedure for Automated Satellite-Based Identification and Climatology Development of Various Classes of Organized Convection
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)A fully automated, objective classification system has been developed to analyze infrared satellite imagery. This automated system facilitates tracking and categorization of convective weather systems into various classes. ... -
Alteration of Atmospheric Solar Absorption by Clouds: Simulation and Observation
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)This study investigated theoretically and experimentally two parameters employed in recent attempts to address cloud absorption anomaly. One is the ratio, R, of shortwave cloud radiative forcing (CRF) at the surface to ...