Recently added articles from Journal of Applied Meteorology:
Cluster Analysis of Surface Winds in Houston, Texas, and the Impact of Wind Patterns on Ozone
Dec 01, 2005; Darby, Lisa S ... ABSTRACT The city of Houston, Texas, is near a complex coastline and numerous petrochemical plants, the combination of which plays a large role in Houston's air pollution events. It has long been known that the thermally driven afternoon onshore flow (sea breeze or gulf breeze) ...
Interannual Variability of Water Demand and Summer Climate in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Dec 01, 2005; Gutzler, David S; Nims, Joshua S ... ABSTRACT The effects of interannual climate variability on water demand in Albuquerque, New Mexico, are assessed. This city provides an ideal setting for examining the effects of climate on urban water demand, because at present the municipal water supply is derived entirely from ...
Bulk Scattering Properties for the Remote Sensing of Ice Clouds. Part I: Microphysical Data and Models
Dec 01, 2005; Baum, Bryan A; Heymsfield, Andrew J; Yang, Ping; Bedka, Sarah T ... ABSTRACT This study reports on the use of in situ data obtained in midlatitude and tropical ice clouds from airborne sampling probes and balloon-borne replicators as the basis for the development of bulk scattering models for use in satellite remote sensing applications. Airborne ...
Evaluation of Snow Depth and Soil Temperatures Predicted by the Hydro-Thermodynamic Soil-Vegetation Scheme Coupled with the Fifth-Generation Pennsylvania State University-NCAR Mesoscale Model
Dec 01, 2005; Narapusetty, Balachandrudu; Mölders, Nicole ... ABSTRACT The Hydro-Thermodynamic Soil-Vegetation Scheme (HTSVS) coupled in a two-way mode with the fifth-generation Pennsylvania State University-National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Mesoscale Meteorological Model (MM5) is evaluated for a typical snowmelt episode in the Baltic ...
A Large-Droplet Mode and Prognostic Number Concentration of Cloud Droplets in the Colorado State University Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS). Part II: Sensitivity to a Colorado Winter Snowfall Event
Dec 01, 2005; Saleeby, Stephen M; Cotton, William R ... ABSTRACT This paper is the second in a two-part series describing recent additions to the microphysics module of the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) at Colorado State University. These changes include the addition of a large-cloud-droplet mode (40-80 µm in diameter) into the ...
Wintertime Cold-Air Pools in the Bavarian Danube Valley Basin: Data Analysis and Idealized Numerical Simulations
Dec 01, 2005; Zängl, Günther ... ABSTRACT This paper investigates wintertime cold-air pools in a basinlike part of the Danube Valley, located in the German state of Bavaria. Specifically, the focus is on cold-pool events restricted to the basin area, that is, not extending to the more elevated parts of the Alpine ...
On the Horizontal Scale of Elevation Dependence of Australian Monthly Precipitation
Dec 01, 2005; Sharples, Jason J; Hutchinson, Michael F; Jellett, Damian R ... ABSTRACT Determination of the scale of the interaction between precipitation and topography is important for the accurate interpolation of rainfall in mountainous areas and also provides insight into the physical processes involved. In this paper, trivariate thin-plate smoothing splines ...
On the Vertical Structure of Modeled and Observed Deep Convective Storms: Insights for Precipitation Retrieval and Microphysical Parameterization
Dec 01, 2005; Smedsmo, Jamie L; Foufoula-Georgiou, Efi; Vuruputur, Venugopal; Kong, Fanyou; Droegemeier, Kelvin ... ABSTRACT An understanding of the vertical structure of clouds is important for remote sensing of precipitation from space and for the parameterization of cloud microphysics in numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. The representation of cloud hydrometeor profiles in high-resolution ...
Bulk Scattering Properties for the Remote Sensing of Ice Clouds. Part II: Narrowband Models
Dec 01, 2005; Baum, Bryan A; Yang, Ping; Heymsfield, Andrew J; Platnick, Steven; Et al ... ABSTRACT This study examines the development of bulk single-scattering properties of ice clouds, including single-scattering albedo, asymmetry factor, and phase function, for a set of 1117 particle size distributions obtained from analysis of the First International Satellite Cloud ...
Relationships between the Irrigation-Pumping Electrical Loads and the Local Climate in Climate Division 9, Idaho
Dec 01, 2005; Alfaro, Eric J; Pierce, David W; Steinemann, Anne C; Gershunov, Alexander ... ABSTRACT The electrical load from irrigation pumps is an important part of the overall electricity demand in many agricultural areas of the U.S. west. The date the pumps turn on and the total electrical load they present over the summer varies from year to year, partly because of climate ...