Journal of Applied Meteorology: Recent submissions
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Comments on “Steady-State Solution of the Semi-Empirical Diffusion Equation for Area Sources”
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Simple Iterative Procedures for Two-Parameter Gamma Distribution Maximum Likelihood Estimates
(American Meteorological Society, 1976)Rapidly converging iterative procedures for obtaining exact maximum likelihood estimates of the two-parameter gamma distribution scale and shape parameters are presented. These procedures yield estimates of parameters ... -
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Determination of Statistics for any Rotation of Axes of a Bivariate Normal Elliptical Distribution
(American Meteorological Society, 1976)Transformation of statistics from a dimensional set to another dimensional set involves linear functions of the original set of statistics. Similarly, linear functions will transform statistics within a dimensional set ... -
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Tetroon Trajectories in the Los Angeles Basin Defining the Source of Air Reaching the San Bernardino-Riverside Area in Late Afternoon
(American Meteorological Society, 1976)Tetroon trajectories within the Los Angeles Basin in the autumn of 1973 show that, on non-stagnation days, air located in the Los Angeles area in the morning can pass over the Puente Hills and reach the San Bernardino-Riverside ... -
Cloud Motion and Rainfall Statistics
(American Meteorological Society, 1976)This paper presents some of the results obtained from a new analysis of the data collected during 1968 and 1970 by EML in the Florida cumulus modification experiment (the ?single cloud? experiment). The most important new ... -
Meteorological Interpretations of the Images from the Nimbus 5 Electrically Scanned Microwave Radiometer
(American Meteorological Society, 1976)The Electrically Scanned Microwave Radiometer (ESMR) on the Nimbus 5 satellite measures the microwave radiation emitted by the earth and the atmosphere in a wavelength band centered at 1.55 cm. The ESMR scans perpendicularly ... -
A Comparison of Turbulence Measurements Made by a Hot-Film Probe, a Bivane, and a Directional Vane in the Atmospheric Surface Layer
(American Meteorological Society, 1976)A three-dimensional hot-film probe, a Vector Vane, and an Aerovane were used to measure the mean wind speed and turbulence structure in the atmospheric surface layer at a location on the south shore of Long Island. A ... -
The Behavior of Large, Low-Surface-Tension Water Drops Falling at Terminal Velocity in Air
(American Meteorological Society, 1976)A vertical wind tunnel was constructed to study the behavior of large, low-surface-tension drops in free fall. The tunnel is simple, but provides a low turbulence (0.7%) flow which stably supports large water drops falling ... -
Measurement of Sea Surface Temperature by the NOAA 2 Satellite
(American Meteorological Society, 1976)Sea surface temperature (Ts) may be inferred to a useful accuracy from satellite measurements of infrared radiances in the atmospheric windows. However, even in the absence of clouds, the slight opacity produced by water ... -
Some Remarks on Modeling of the Early Stage of Cloud Formation in a Simulation Chamber
(American Meteorological Society, 1976)A numerical model has been developed to describe the early stage of cloud formation in a relatively small simulation chamber. The results for adiabatic expansion show a tendency for the cloud droplet spectrum to narrow, ... -
A Weighting Scheme for Autoregressive Time Averages
(American Meteorological Society, 1976)A simple arithmetic mean, when the observations are correlated, is not the optimum estimate of the population mean. Such is usually the case when the observations are taken from a stationary time series. The variances of ... -
Accuracy Limitations on CCN Measurements with Thermal Gradient Diffusion Chambers
(American Meteorological Society, 1976)Limitations on the accuracy of CCN counts obtained with thermal gradient diffusion cloud chambers (TGDCC) are discussed. Evidence presented here regarding 1) the absence of a well-defined plateau when the number of CCN in ... -
Factor Analysis of Coastal Air Pressure and Water Temperature
(American Meteorological Society, 1976)From an examination of the rotated factors produced by common factor analysis, a relationship between water temperatures measured at Blunt's Reef Light Ship and air pressure measured at Eureka, Calif., was isolated. Also ... -
Experimental Study of an Artificial Convective Plume Initiated from the Ground
(American Meteorological Society, 1976)An experimental project on convective plumes initiated from the ground by an exceptionally powerful artificial heat source has been carried out. The heat source consisted of 97 oil burners releasing a total power of 600 ... -
Variance Spectrum Analysis of Aircraft Dew-Point Measurement System Noise
(American Meteorological Society, 1976)A cross-spectral analysis method is developed to estimate the noise variance spectra of three or more independent measurement systems observing the same input. The noise is modeled using a first-order autoregressive process. ... -
Potential Use of Radar Differential Reflectivity Measurements at Orthogonal Polarizations for Measuring Precipitation
(American Meteorological Society, 1976)The potential use of differential reflectivity measurements at orthogonal polarizations to determine rain-fall rate is examined. The method involves measurements of ZH and ZV, the radar reflectivity factors due to horizontally ... -
Ship's Influence on Wind Measurements Determined from BOMEX Mast and Boom Data
(American Meteorological Society, 1976)Comparison of wind speeds measured by ship mast and boom instrumentation during the Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment (BOMEX) are presented. It was found that the mast wind measurements are strongly ... -
Fitting a Circular Distribution to a Histogram
(American Meteorological Society, 1976)In meteorology, wind directions are often recorded to the nearest of 16 points of the compass. When studying the diffusion of air pollutants downwind from a source, it is often desirable to have much higher resolution?on ...