Journal of Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions

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    • Comments on “Some Observations on the Joss-Waldvogel Rainfall Disdrometer” 

      Joss, J.; Waldvogel, A. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
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    • Reply 

      Kinnell, P. I. A. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
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    • Remote Sensing of the Thickness and Composition of Cirrus Clouds from Satellites 

      Liou, Kuo-Nan (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      A retrieval technique is presented for the determination of the surface temperature, the thickness and transmissivity of cirrus clouds, and the fraction of the cirrus cloudiness by means of four observed upwelling radiances ...

    • Seasonal and Wavelength Dependence of Urban/Rural Radiance in Iowa 

      Lunde, B. K. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      LANDSAT measurements show that the radiance of urban areas is higher in the summer than that of rural areas and lower in the winter, aiding the heat budget of cities and tending to save energy. The radiance of both urban ...

    • An Approximating Polynomial for the Computation of Saturation Vapor Pressure 

      Lowe, Paul R. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      A procedure for computing saturation vapor by means of a polynomial approximation is presented and evaluated against other methods currently in use. The polynomial procedure is demonstrated to be highly accurate and more ...

    • The Polarization Characteristics of Lidar Scattering from Snow and Ice Crystals in the Atmosphere 

      Pal, S. R.; Carswell, A. I. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      The effects of ice crystals on the backscatter polarization in lidar returns have been measured. Scattering from ground-level snow of varying density, high-altitude cirrus clouds and ice pellet shower clouds has been studied ...

    • Tropical Cyclone Recurvature and Nonrecurvature as Related to Surrounding Wind-Height Fields 

      George, John E.; Gray, William M. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      Ten years of rawinsonde data for 30 stations in the western North Pacific have been composited relative to tropical cyclone center positions. This is the same data set described in a previous paper by the same authors. ...

    • Turbulent Characteristics of Some Canadian Cumulus Clouds 

      MacPherson, J. I.; Isaac, G. A. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      The turbulent characteristics of 17 Canadian cumulus clouds have been documented using the measurements from a specially instrumented T-33 aircraft. Most of the 33 cloud penetrations were made through the tops of cumuli ...

    • Shortwave Radiative Effects of Unactivated Aerosol Particles in Clouds 

      Ackerman, T.; Baker, M. B. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      Clouds in some polluted areas may contain high concentrations of anthropogenic aerosol particles. The possible role of these particles in perturbing the optical and dynamical properties of the clouds is an important question ...

    • Balloonborne Measurements of Condensation Nuclei 

      Rosen, J. M.; Hofmann, D. J. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      A condensation nuclei (CN) counter has been developed for balloonborne use at ambient pressures in the troposphere and stratosphere. The instrument employs a thermal gradient diffusion cloud chamber to produce particle ...

    • Algebraic and Electronic Corrections of Measured uw Covariance in the Lower Atmosphere 

      Hyson, P.; Garratt, J. R.; Francey, R. J. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      Measurements of the uw covariance over the sea using the eddy correlation technique are used to compare two methods of correction when the mean ?vertical? wind measured by the turbulence sensor is nonzero. A real-time ...

    • Heat Balance in the Ablation Area of the Ampere Glacier (Kerguelen Islands) 

      Poggi, André (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      The heat balance at the surface of the Ampere Glacier (69°E, 49°S) was studied from 8 January to 2 March 1972. The validity of the logarithmic model was verified up to a height of 3 m for wind speed and 2 m for temperature. ...

    • Cup Anemometer Overspeeding 

      Busch, N. E.; Kristensen, L. (American Meteorological Society, 1976)
      Statistical considerations are applied to a general equation of motion for cup anemometers in a turbulent wind. It is shown that the relative overspeeding ?S/S can be expressed as ?S/S = Ih2 · Js(l0/?s) + cIw2, where Is ...

    • Comments on Comparisons of Condensation Nucleus Counters 

      Podzimek, Josef; Kassner, James L. (American Meteorological Society, 1976)
      The recent article by Cadle et al. (1975) describes a comparison of different types of condensation nucleus counters. Some general remarks are made here on the terminology and calibration of the counters and on the ...

    • An Observed Relationship between the Height of the 45 dBZ Contours in Storm Profiles and Surface Hail Reports 

      Mather, G. K.; Treddenick, D.; Parsons, R. (American Meteorological Society, 1976)
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    • On the Non-Constant Gamma 

      Stigter, C. J. (American Meteorological Society, 1976)
      It is shown that a recently suggested use of a pressure dependence of the psychrometric ?constant? is no improvement on existing practice. A plea is made for a through experimental and theoretical investigation into the ...

    • A Synoptic Climatology for Environmental Baseline Analysis: New Orleans 

      Muller, Robert A. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      Standard climatological observations made between 1971 and 1974 at Moisant Airport, New Orleans, have been organized into a calendar of eight synoptic weather types identified from the daily surface weather maps of the ...

    • Air Quality Impact of the Energy Shortage 

      Guldberg, Peter H.; Siegel, Richard D.; D'Agostino, Ralph B.; Gipson, Gerald L. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      A statistical analysis assesses the effects of the energy shortage of 1973?74 on ambient air quality in Metropolitan Boston. Standard multivariate regression techniques were used to investigate relationships between measured ...

    • EDITORIAL 

      Unknown author (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
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    • The Energy Balance of an Urban Canyon 

      Nunez, M.; Oke, T. R. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      This study investigates the energy exchanges occurring within an urban canyon. It considers not only the energy balances of each of the canyon component surfaces (walls and floor), but also the balance of the canyon system ...