Journal of Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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Comment on “A Review of Thunderstorm Electrification Processes”
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Conditions Associated with Large-Drop Regions
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)In light of the significant icing hazard large drops pose to general aviation, two conditions have been previously associated with large-drop formation; these being a warm cloud-top temperature and a low droplet concentration. ... -
A Proposed Standard Fog Collector for Use in High-Elevation Regions
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)The collection of fog droplets by vegetation is an important wet deposition process. It can, in fact, dominate the chemical and hydrological input to certain high elevation watersheds. However, measurements of fog deposition ... -
The Application of a Technique for Vector Correlation to Problems in Meteorology and Oceanography
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)In a recent study, Crosby et al. proposed a definition for vector correlation that has not been commonly used in meteorology or oceanography. This definition has both a firm theoretical basis and a rather complete set of ... -
The Impact of Land-Surface Wetness Heterogeneity on Mesoscale Heat Fluxes
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)Vertical heat fluxes associated with mesoscale circulations generated by land-surface wetness discontinuities are often stronger than turbulent fluxes, especially in the upper part of the atmospheric planetary boundary ... -
Spatial Distribution of Surface Fluxes Estimated from Remotely Sensed Variables
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)This study relates surface fluxes to remotely sensed variables over well-defined variations of surface wetness and vegetation. The surface fluxes are estimated from repeated Twin Otter aircraft flights at 33 m above the ... -
Monitoring of Sahelian Aerosol and Atmospheric Water Vapor Content Characteristics from Sun Photometer Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)Atmospheric measurements in two Sahelian sites in West Africa are presented and analyzed. The measurements were performed using a sun photometer with five bands in the visible and near-infrared range of the solar spectrum. ... -
A Climate Transect through Tropical Montane Rain Forest in Hawaii
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)Two years of climate data from a transect of three surface meteorological stations on the windward slopes of Mauna Loa, Hawaii, are analyzed. The stations constitute a transect between 700 and 1640 m through the wet, montane ... -
Long-Term Tracer Study at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Part II: Evaluation and Comparison of Several Methods to Determine Dispersion Coefficients
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)A long-term tracer study was conducted to evaluate dispersion in complex terrain in support of air quality and emergency response initiatives. An array of monitors continuously measured external radiation levels at different ... -
The Probability Density Function of Rain Rate and the Estimation of Rainfall by Area Integrals
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)A database on the rain rate collected with disdrometers at various sites located from the middle to tropical latitudes is used to analyze the variations of the parameters of the probability density function of rain rate ... -
The Effect of Data Resolution on the Area Threshold Method
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)The effect of data resolution on the area threshold method is studied using a stochastic model of radar snapshots of tropical rainfall taken during the Global Atmospheric Research Program Atlantic Tropical Experiment. The ... -
A Comparative Analysis of the Temporal Variability of Lightning Observations and GOES Imagery
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)Lightning Positioning and Tracking System (LPATS) data received by the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere via a real-time weather data network were used to study the temporal variability of lightning for ... -
Long-Term Tracer Study at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Part I: Wind, Turbulence, and Tracer Patterns
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)An array of three portable, pressurized ionization chambers (PICs) measured external radiation levels during 1986 and 1987 caused by radionuclides emitted from a 30-m stack of the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF). ... -
HIRS Sensitivity to C02 Mixing Ratio and a Pragmatic Correction Term
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)The effect of changes in the mixing ratio of C02 on the uniformly mixed gases component of the TIROS-N Observational Vertical Sounder radiances in High-Resolution Infrared Sounder (HIRS) channels is examined using a ... -
Fluctuations of Differential Phase and Radar Measurements of Precipitation
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)The specific differential polarization phase shift KDP has been suggested as a possible estimator of rainfall as well as a rain-hail discriminator in several recent studies. Here, the complex multivariate Gaussian model, ... -
An Automated Classification Scheme Designed to Better Elucidate the Dependence of Ozone on Meteorology
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)This paper utilizes a two-stage (average linkage then convergent k means) clustering approach as part of an automated meteorological classification scheme designed to better elucidate the dependence of ozone on meteorology. ... -
Identification of Thermally Homogeneous Subunits in a Steep Appalachian Pasture
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)Pasture improvement in the central Appalachian region is facilitated by knowledge of spatial relationships in microclimate attributable to complex topography. A small, steep horseshoe-shaped pasture watershed, with aspects ... -
Evaluation of the WOCSS Wind Analysis Scheme for the San Francisco Bay Area
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)Applications of the Winds on Critical Streamline Surfaces (WOCSS) model in the San Francisco Bay Area are described. Three case studies, chosen to represent important classes of airflow in the region, were conducted. Two ... -
Simulations of the Effects of Water Vapor, Cloud Liquid Water, and Ice on AMSU Moisture Channel Brightness Temperatures
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)Radiative transfer simulations are performed to determine how water vapor and nonprecipitating cloud liquid water and ice particles within typical midlatitude atmospheres affect brightness temperatures TB's of moisture ...