Journal of Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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A Technique for Estimating Recurrence Intervals of Tropical Cyclone-Related High Winds in the Tropics: Results for Guam
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)The authors develop a technique that applies models of the radial profile of the wind in tropical cyclones to historical best-track databases of tropical cyclones, in order to estimate the wind (at 1-h intervals) experienced ... -
Observations of Thermal and Precipitation Structure in a Tropical Cyclone by Means of Passive Microwave Imagery near 118 GHZ
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)An imaging microwave radiometer with eight double-sideband channels centered on the 118-GHz oxygen resonance was flown on a high-altitude aircraft over a tropical cyclone in the Coral Sea. The measurements clearly resolved ... -
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A Neural Network for Tornado Prediction Based on Doppler Radar-Derived Attributes
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)The National Severe Storms Laboratory's (NSSL) mesocyclone detection algorithm (MDA) is designed to scotch for patterns in Doppler velocity radar data that are associated with rotating updrafts in severe thunderstorms. ... -
The Influence of Canyon Winds on Flow Fields near Colorado's Front Range
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)A network of sodars was operated in the late summer and fall of 1993 to monitor the occurrence of nocturnal winds from a canyon in Colorado's Front Range near the Rocky Flats Plant and to determine the influence of those ... -
A Lagrangian Model of Long-Range Transport of Sulphur with the Diurnal Variations of Some Model Parameters
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)A Lagrangian receptor-oriented one-layer model has been developed in order to simulate a synoptic-scale transport of airborne sulphur on a daily basis. Mass balance equations for sulphur dioxide and particulate sulphate ... -
Application of Evapoclimatonomy to Monthly Surface Water Balance Calculations at the HAPEX-Sahel Supersites
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)In this paper a revised verstion of Lettau's evapoclimatonomy model is used to simulate climate in West Africa. The model is applied specifically to the study sites of the HAPEX-Sahel region in Niger, an international ... -
A Revised Version of Lettau's Evapoclimatonomy Model
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)In this paper a revised version of Lettau's evapoclimatonomy model is introduced. Climatonomy is a one-dimensional representation of mean climate, which includes a complete characterization of the surface energy and water ... -
Estimation of Cirrus and Stratus Cloud Heights Using Landsat Imagery
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)A new method based upon high-spatial-resolution imagery is presented that matches cloud and shadow regions to estimate cirrus and stratus cloud heights. The distance between the cloud and the matching shadow pattern is ... -
Comparisons of SSM/I Liquid Water Paths with Aircraft Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)Comparisons have been made between in situ aircraft measurements of integrated liquid water and retrievals of integrated liquid water path (LWP) from algorithms using SSM/I brightness temperatures. The aircraft measurements ... -
Tropical Upper-Tropospheric Dry Regions from TOVS and Rawinsondes
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)Water vapor (WV) radiances from the TIROS-N Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) and rawinsondes during January 1979 are intercompared within the equatorial dry zone (EDZ) southwest of Mexico and the subtropical high (STH) ... -
A Comparison of Saturation Pressure Differences and GOES VAS Estimates to Surface Observations of Cloudiness
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)Saturation pressure differences, a measure of parcel saturation, are calculated from upper-air soundings and compared to manual surface observations of cloudiness. The saturation pressure level p* (more commonly referred ... -
An Algorithm for Retrieving Vertical Wind Profiles from Satellite-Observed Winds over the Indian Ocean Using Complex EOF Analysis
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)With an aim to exploit current satellite observations for determining vertical wind profiles, the authors have carried out a complex empirical orthogonal function (CEOF) analysis of a large number of radiosonde observations ... -
Sampling-Induced Conditional Biases in Satellite Climate-Scale Rainfall Estimates
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)The effect of temporal sampling error in satellite estimates of climate-scale rainfall is to produce a ?conditional? bias where the algorithm overestimates high rainfall and underestimates low rainfall. Thus, the bias is ... -
Cloud Field Identification for Earth Radiation Budget Studies. Part II: Cloud Field Classification for the ScaRaB Radiometer
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)Gaining a better understanding of the influence of clouds on the earth's energy budget requires a cloud classification that takes into account cloud height, thickness, and cloud cover. The radiometer ScaRaB (scanner for ... -
Cloud Field Identification for Earth Radiation Budget Studies. Part I: Cloud Field Classification Using HIRS-MSU Sounder Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)Onboard the NOAA satellites, the High-Resolution Infrared Sounder (HIRS) with its 20 channels, combined with the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU), provides a powerful tool for cloud field classification at a spatial resolution ... -
Analysis of Darwin Rainfall Data: Implications on Sampling Strategy
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)Rainfall data collected by radar in the vicinity of Darwin, Australia, have been analysed in terms of their mean, variance, autocorrelation of area-averaged rain rate, and diurnal variation. It is found that, when compared ... -
Sensitivity of Simulated Surface Fluxes to Changes in Land Surface Parameterizations-A Study Using ABRACOS Data
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)The simplified Simple Biosphere model (SSiB) has been validated using observed meteorological, turbulent flux, and vegetation property data from the Anglo-Brazilian Amazonian Climate Observation Study (ABRACOS) over a ... -
Clear-Sky Nocturnal Temperatures Forecast and the Greenhouse Effect
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)Nocturnal evolution of air and soil temperatures are computed for clear-sky situations. The model takes into account the soil heat conduction and the atmospheric radiative transfers by using radiosonde data for temperature, ... -
Ground- and Space-Based Temperature and Humidity Retrievals: Statistical Evaluation
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)A near-real-time integrated temperature and water vapor sounding system has been designed and in operation since June 1993. It combines hourly data from the ground-based radio acoustic sounding system (RASS), a two-channel ...