Journal of Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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Satellite Identification of Rain Days over the Upper Nile River Basin Using an Optimum Infrared Rain/No-Rain Threshold Temperature Model
(American Meteorological Society, 1995)As part of the U.S. Agency for International Development/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration project to develop an improved monitoring, forecasting, and simulation system for the river Nile, the Remote Sensing ... -
Production and Depletion of Supercooled Liquid Water in a Colorado Winter Storm
(American Meteorological Society, 1995)During the 1990 Winter Icing and Storms Project (WISP), a shallow cold front passed through northeastern Colorado, followed by a secondary cold front. A broad high pressure area behind the initial front set up a Denver ... -
Field Observations of In-Cloud Nucleation and the Modification of Atmospheric Aerosol Size Distributions after Cloud Evaporation
(American Meteorological Society, 1995)The authors measured aerosol and droplet size distributions in the range from 0.1 to 50 µm, concentrations and sizes of precipitation particles, concentrations of condensation nuclei, and state parameters in and in the ... -
Cloud Microphysical Relationships in California Marine Stratus
(American Meteorological Society, 1995)Cloud microphysical measurements off the southern California coast are presented and compared with in situ airborne measurements of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) spectra. Large-scale variations in cloud droplet concentrations ... -
Correlation Dimension Estimates of Global and Local Temperature Data
(American Meteorological Society, 1995)The author has attempted to detect the presence of low-dimensional deterministic chaos in temperature data by estimating the correlation dimension with the Hill estimate that has been recently developed by Mikosch and Wang. ... -
A Satellite Observational Study of Precipitation Characteristics in Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclones
(American Meteorological Society, 1995)Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) observations were used to examine spatial and temporal changes in the precipitation characteristics for western North Pacific tropical cyclones that reached storm stage or greater ... -
Smart Interpolation of Annually Averaged Air Temperature in the United States
(American Meteorological Society, 1995)Two ?smart? interpolation procedures are presented and assessed with respect to their ability to estimate annual-average air temperatures at unsampled points in space from available station averages. Smart approaches ... -
Calculation of a Mass-Consistent Two-Dimensional Wind Field with Divergence Control
(American Meteorological Society, 1995)The aim of this paper is the calculation of mass-consistent wind velocity field in a two-dimensional domain Ω on the basis of sparse measurements collected by wind-measuring stations. Measured data are used to estimate an ... -
Wind Energy Resource Estimation of the Upper Atmosphere over Southern Africa
(American Meteorological Society, 1995)On the basis of daily ECMWF data over the period 1982?89, the mean seasonal and mean annual wind energy resource fields on the isobaric surfaces 1000, 850, 700, 500, 300, 200, and 100 hPa, within the latitude?longitudinal ... -
A Simple Empirical Model for Predicting the Decay of Tropical Cyclone Winds after Landfall
(American Meteorological Society, 1995)An empirical model for predicting the maximum wind of landfalling tropical cyclones is developed. The model is based upon the observation that the wind speed decay rate after landfall is proportional to the wind speed. ... -
Satellite Sampling and the Diurnal Cycle Statistics of Darwin Rainfall Data
(American Meteorological Society, 1995)This paper presents an analysis of rainfall data based on the radar echoes collected in the vicinity of Darwin, Australia, during the special observation periods in 1988. The Darwin rainfall data are available in the form ... -
An Estimate of Horizontal Heat Transport during a Chinook
(American Meteorological Society, 1995)The chinook is the best example of the family of mountain winds that blows in regions where long mountain chains lie more or less at right angles to the prevailing wind. Apart from the unseasonable warmth it brings to the ... -
Environmental Influence on Typhoon Bobbie's Precipitation Distribution
(American Meteorological Society, 1995)The distribution and intensity of tropical cyclone precipitation has been known to have a large influence on the intensification and maintenance of the system. Therefore, monitoring the tropical cyclone convective rainband ... -
Rainstorm Analysis and Rainfall Erosivity of a Seasonal Tropical Region with a Strong Cyclonic Influence on the Pacific Coast of Mexico
(American Meteorological Society, 1995)The objective of this paper is to analyse the rainstorm pattern and rainfall erosivity of a seasonal tropical region in Mexico. Depth, duration, and intensity values of precipitation were obtained for all individual storms ... -
Estimating the Probability of Rain in an SSM/I FOV Using Logistic Regression
(American Meteorological Society, 1995)The SSM/I has been used successfully to estimate precipitation and to determine the fields of view (FOV) that contain precipitating clouds. The use of multivariate logistic regression with the SSM/I brightness temperatures ... -
The Effect of Clouds and Wind on the Difference in Nocturnal Cooling Rates between Urban and Rural Areas
(American Meteorological Society, 1995)The urban warming effect is interesting in its own right and is important for understanding global warming. The aim of this study is to determine how the urban warming effect changes with cloud conditions and with wind ... -
Tests for Persistent Effects of Cloud Seeding in a Recent Australian Experiment
(American Meteorological Society, 1995)An analysis of cloud seeding experiments in Australia prior to 1984 that used silver iodide dispensed from aircraft as the seeding agent suggested that there were systematic aftereffects of seeding at least one month after ... -
Modeling Ultraviolet Radiation at the Earth's Surface. Part II: Model and Instrument Comparison
(American Meteorological Society, 1995)High-resolution measurements in the spectral region of 280?400 nm using a double monochromator are compared with detailed radiative transfer calculations at Reading, United Kingdom (52°N, 0°), for clear and totally overcast ... -
Modeling Ultraviolet Radiation at the Earth's Surface. Part I: The Sensitivity of Ultraviolet Irradiances to Atmospheric Changes
(American Meteorological Society, 1995)A discrete-ordinate radiative transfer model is employed for the prediction of surface UV irradiances. A wide-ranging sensitivity study is undertaken to show how changes to the model input parameters aged UV irradiances ... -
Schemes for Parameterizing Evaporation from a Non-Plant-Covered Surface and Their Impact on Partitioning the Surface Energy in Land Air Exchange Parameterization
(American Meteorological Society, 1995)The correct simulation of the sensible and latent heat fluxes from a non-plant-covered surface is very important in designing the surface scheme for modeling the processes in the land?air exchange. However, using different ...