Journal of Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions

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    • Comments on “Long-Distance Transport of 2,4-D” 

      Decker, Fred W.; Hennessey, Joseph P. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      This note takes exception to the Reisinger and Robinson (1976) hypothesis of long-distance transport of 2,4-D in sufficient quantities to damage grapes after first putting the overall problem of herbicide injury in central ...

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      Reisinger, Lawrence M.; Robinson, Elmer (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
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    • Ozone and Visibility Reduction in the Midwest: Evidence for Large-Scale Transport 

      Samson, Perry J.; Ragland, Kenneth W. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      For June and July 1975, ozone concentrations throughout the Midwest showed a consistent dependence onwind direction with the highest concentrations associated with winds from the southeast. This systematicpattern suggests ...

    • Variance Analysis of Wind Characteristics for Energy Conversion 

      Corotis, Ross B.; Sigl, Arden B.; Cohen, Michael P. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      Variance analysis of hourly wind data is utilized to assist in wind characteristic assessment for direct energy conversion systems. Feasibility of large-scale wind energy utilization, as well as sitting, sizing and operating ...

    • Interpretation of Foil Impactor Impressions of Water and Ice Particles 

      Knight, C. A.; Knight, N. C.; Grotewold, W. W.; Cannon, T. W. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      Impacts of hydrometeors on aluminum foil over a grooved backing, as in standard airborne foil impactors, have been produced in the laboratory using a modified crossbow to achieve aircraft speeds. The purpose of the work ...

    • The Microstructure of California Coastal Fog and Stratus 

      Goodman, Jindra (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      Detailed vertical profiles of the microphysical properties of West Coast advection fog were made over theSan Francisco peninsula during the summers of 1974 and 1975. The sampling platform was the 250 m highMount Sutro tower ...

    • Ground-Level Ozone and Regional Transport of Air Pollutants 

      Chung, Y-S. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      Photochemical air pollution was studied in the lower Great Lakes region of southern Ontario, Canada, using O3 data for 1973?76 inclusive. High O3 concentrations in the boundary layer are correlated primarily with the several ...

    • Ozone Depletion by Chlorofluoromethanes? Yet Another Look 

      Parry, H. Dean (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      A number of predictions of stratospheric ozone depletion caused by release of chlorofluoromethanes (Freons 11 and 12) into the atmosphere are described and the wide variation of predicted depletion noted. By using techniques ...

    • Preliminary Tests of a Cumulus Cloud Seeding Technique 

      Isaac, G. A.; Schemenauer, R. S.; Crozier, C. L.; Chisholm, A. J.; MacPherson, J. I.; Bobbitt, N. R.; MacHattie, L. B. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      A cloud seeding technique is proposed which has the objective of stimulating rainfall from cumulus clouds drifting over forest fires. Preliminary tests of the ice crystal production capability of the cloud seeding technique ...

    • A Comparison of Oceanic Precipitation as Measured by Gage and Assessed from Weather Reports 

      Reed, R. K.; Elliott, W. P. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      The problems of using raingages on ships are discussed, and methods of estimating rainfall from weather reports at sea are reviewed, with emphasis on discussion of efforts to verify the assessments derived by Tucker (1961). ...

    • Thermal Plumes Detected by an Acoustic Echo Sounder 

      Nater, Werner; Richner, Hans (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      As noted elsewhere, in temperature profiles obtained by a tethered balloon, thermal plumes can be distinguished from true stratification by the simultaneous operation of an acoustic echo sounder. Rising thermals observed ...

    • An Analysis of a Possible Crop Response to Hail Suppression Seeding: The Nelspruit Hail Suppression Project 

      Mather, Graeme K. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      A commercial hail suppression program has been in operation at Nelspruit, South Africa (25°S, 31°E) since December 1971. The seeding technique employed has been the ?on-top? method, which consists of dropping silver iodide ...

    • An Improved Method for Determining Measurement System Noise Spectra 

      Goerss, James S. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      A simultaneous equations solution technique is developed to estimate the noise variance density spectra of three or more independent measurement systems observing the same input. Using dew-point data collected during a ...

    • A Balloonborne Acoustic Sounder 

      Arnold, Lyndon N. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      An account is given of the design and construction of an experiment in which a monostatic acoustic sounder was mounted beneath a gondola carried by a freely ascending polyethylene balloon. By interrogating a volume of the ...

    • A Portable, Photo-Recording Aitken Counter 

      Winters, W.; Barnard, S.; Hogan, A. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      A modern replica of the Aitken counter for detection of aerosol particles smaller in diameter than a half wavelength of visible light has been constructed using modern materials. The instrument employs photographic recording, ...

    • A Mathematical Model for the Generation of Hourly Temperatures 

      Hansen, James E.; Driscoll, Dennis M. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      A stochastic model for hourly temperatures for Big Spring, Tex., has been developed. The governing parameters were deduced from an 11-year developmental sample, and give hourly temperatures as a function of harmonics ...

    • Predicted Climatology of Cooling Tower Plumes from Energy Centers 

      Hanna, Steven R. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      A one-dimensional plume and cloud growth model is applied to four months of radiosonde observations from Nashville, using as initial conditions the plume from single large cooling towers with waste heat outputs of 103, 104 ...

    • Atmospheric Particulate Properties Inferred from Lidar and Solar Radiometer Observations Compared with Simultaneous In Situ Aircraft Measurements: A Case Study 

      Reagan, J. A.; Spinhirne, J. D.; Byrne, D. M.; Thomson, D. W.; Pena, R. G. De; Mamane, Y. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      Particulate size and height distributions, complex refractive index and mass loading have been measured and inferred from direct aircraft and indirect lidar-solar radiometer observations made during a unique joint experiment ...

    • Estimation of the Daytime and Nighttime Distribution of Atmospheric Ozone from Ground-Based Millimeter Wavelength Measurements 

      Shimabukuro, F. I.; Smith, P. L.; Wilson, W. J. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      The daytime and nighttirne distribution of the ozone density in the atmosphere has been determined from ground-based measurements of the emission spectra of the strong 40,4 = 41,3 rotational line of ozone at 101.737 GHz ...

    • Urbanization and Pollutant Effects on the Thermal Structure in Four Climatic Regimes 

      Atwater, Marshall A. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      A numerical model based on the Eulerian conservation equation simulated the urban heat island in tropical, desert, mid-latitude and tundra climatic regimes in a two-dimensional mode. Data are based on typical climatological ...