Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology back issues from January 2006:
Contrails to Cirrus-Morphology, Microphysics, and Radiative Properties
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT This work is two pronged, discussing 1) the morphology of contrails and their transition to cirrus uncinus, and 2) their microphysical and radiative properties. It is based upon the fortuitous occurrence of an unusual set of essentially parallel contrails and the unanticipated ...
EDITORIAL
Jan 01, 2006; ... The Journal of Applied Meteorology is changing its name to the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatologv (JAMC) effective with this issue. The change was made in recognition of the increasing importance of applied climatology in the atmospheric sciences as reflected in the recent article by ...
Objective Assessment of the Information Content of Visible and Infrared Radiance Measurements for Cloud Microphysical Property Retrievals over the Global Oceans. Part I: Liquid Clouds
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT The importance of accurately representing the role of clouds in climate change studies has become increasingly apparent in recent years, leading to a substantial increase in the number of satellite sensors and associated algorithms that are devoted to measuring the global ...
High-Resolution Large-Eddy Simulations of Flow in a Steep Alpine Valley. Part II: Flow Structure and Heat Budgets
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the three-dimensional flow structure and the heat budget in a typical medium-sized and steep Alpine valley-the Riviera Valley in southern Switzerland. Aircraft measurements from the Mesoscale Alpine Programme (MAP)-Riviera field campaign reveal a very ...
High-Resolution Large-Eddy Simulations of Flow in a Steep Alpine Valley. Part I: Methodology, Verification, and Sensitivity Experiments
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT This paper investigates the steps necessary to achieve accurate simulations of flow over steep, mountainous terrain. Large-eddy simulations of flow in the Riviera Valley in the southern Swiss Alps are performed at horizontal resolutions as fine as 150 m using the Advanced ...
Objective Assessment of the Information Content of Visible and Infrared Radiance Measurements for Cloud Microphysical Property Retrievals over the Global Oceans. Part II: Ice Clouds
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Cirrus clouds play an important yet poorly determined role in the earth's climate system and its various feedback mechanisms. As such, a significant amount of work has been accomplished both in understanding the physics of the ice clouds and in using this knowledge to estimate ...
Mapping the Hazard of Extreme Rainfall by Peaks over Threshold Extreme Value Analysis and Spatial Regression Techniques
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT The occurrence of rainfalls of high magnitude constitutes a primary natural hazard in many parts of the world, and the elaboration of maps showing the hazard of extreme rainfalls has great theoretical and practical interest. In this work a procedure based on extreme value ...
Modeling of the Coastal Boundary Layer and Pollutant Transport in New England
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Concentrations of ozone exceeding regulatory standards are regularly observed along the coasts of New Hampshire and Maine in summer. These events are primarily caused by the transport of pollutants from urban areas in Massachusetts and farther south and west. Pollutant transport ...
Intraurban Differences of Surface Energy Fluxes in a Central European City
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Surface properties, such as roughness and vegetation, which vary both within and between urban areas, play a dominant role in determining surface-atmosphere energy exchanges. The turbulent heat flux partitioning is examined within a single urban area through measurements at four ...
Evaluating a Hybrid Prognostic-Diagnostic Model That Improves Wind Forecast Resolution in Complex Coastal Topography
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT The results from a hybrid approach that combines the forecasts of a mesoscale model with a diagnostic wind model to produce high-resolution wind forecasts in complex coastal orography are evaluated. The simple diagnostic wind model [Winds on Critical Streamline Surfaces (WOCSS)] ...
Snowmelt-Related Flood Risk in Appalachia: First Estimates from a Historical Snow Climatology
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT A first attempt has been made toward quantifying the risk of snowmelt-related flooding in the central and southern Appalachian Mountains of the United States (from 35° to 42°N). In the last decade, two major events occurred within the region, prompting this study. Snowfall and ...
Low-Level Jets over the Mid-Atlantic States: Warm-Season Climatology and a Case Study
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Although considerable research has been conducted to study the characteristics of the low-level jets (LLJs) over the Great Plains states, little is known about the development of LLJs over the Mid-Atlantic states. In this study, the Mid-Atlantic LLJ and its associated ...
Broadband Albedo Observations in the Southern Great Plains
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Time series of daily broadband surface albedo for 1998 and 1999 have been analyzed from six locations in the network of 22 Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Solar-Infrared Radiation Stations distributed from central Kansas to central Oklahoma. Two of the stations are in ...
Effect of Air Pollution on Precipitation along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Air pollution generated in industrial and urban areas can act to suppress precipitation by creating a narrow cloud droplet spectrum, which inhibits the collision and coalescence process. In fact, precipitation ratios of elevated sites to upwind coastal urban areas have decreased ...