A Study of the Urban Boundary Layer Using Different Urban Parameterizations and High-Resolution Urban Canopy Parameters with WRFJournal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology - Tập 50 Số 5 - Trang 1107-1128 - 2011
Francisco Salamanca, Alberto Martilli, Mukul Tewari, Fei Chen
AbstractIn the last two decades, mesoscale models (MMs) with urban canopy parameterizations have been widely used to study urban boundary layer processes. Different studies show that such parameterizations are sensitive to the urban canopy parameters (UCPs) that define the urban morphology. At the same time, high-resolution UCP databases are becoming available for ...... hiện toàn bộ
Exploring the Transient Behavior of Z–R Relationships: Implications for Radar Rainfall EstimationJournal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology - Tập 48 Số 10 - Trang 2127-2143 - 2009
O. P. Prat, Ana P. Barros
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The objective of this study is to characterize the signature of dynamical microphysical processes on reflectivity–rainfall (Z–R) relationships used for radar rainfall estimation. For this purpose, a bin model with explicit microphysics was used to perform a sensitivity analysis of the shape parameters of the drop size distribution (DSD) as a...... hiện toàn bộ
Model Calculations of Solar Spectral Irradiance in the 3.7-μm Band for Earth Remote Sensing ApplicationsJournal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology - Tập 47 Số 1 - Trang 124-134 - 2008
Steven Platnick, J. M. Fontenla
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Since the launch of the first Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) instrument aboard the Television and Infrared Observational Satellite (TIROS-N), measurements in the 3.7-μm atmospheric window have been exploited for use in cloud detection and screening, cloud thermodynamic phase and surface snow/ice discrimination, and quantita...... hiện toàn bộ
Infrared Continental Surface Emissivity Spectra and Skin Temperature Retrieved from IASI Observations over the TropicsJournal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology - Tập 51 Số 6 - Trang 1164-1179 - 2012
V. Capelle, A. Chédin, Eric Péquignot, Peter Schlüssel, Stuart M. Newman, N. A. Scott
AbstractLand surface temperature and emissivity spectra are essential variables for improving models of the earth surface–atmosphere interaction or retrievals of atmospheric variables such as thermodynamic profiles, chemical composition, cloud and aerosol characteristics, and so on. In most cases, emissivity spectral variations are not correctly taken into account ...... hiện toàn bộ
Finescale Diurnal Rainfall Statistics Refined from Eight Years of TRMM PR DataJournal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology - Tập 47 Số 2 - Trang 544-561 - 2008
Masafumi Hirose, Riko Oki, Shuji Shimizu, Misako Kachi, Tomohiko Higashiuwatoko
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The adequacy of hourly rainfall sampling was examined in terms of the detection of diurnal variations using 8 yr (1998–2005) of data observed by the precipitation radar on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite. It was found that the monthly and hourly rain samples for each 0.2° grid point over the 8-yr period are composed ...... hiện toàn bộ
Trends in U.S. Surface Humidity, 1930–2010Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology - Tập 52 Số 1 - Trang 147-163 - 2013
P. Brown, Arthur T. DeGaetano
AbstractU.S. hourly surface observations are examined at 145 stations to identify annual and seasonal changes in temperature, dewpoint, relative humidity, and specific humidity since 1930. Because of numerous systematic instrument changes that have occurred, a homogeneity assessment was performed on temperatures and dewpoints. Dewpoints contained higher breakpoint ...... hiện toàn bộ
Standardization of Offshore Surface Wind SpeedsJournal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology - Tập 55 Số 5 - Trang 1107-1121 - 2016
Yuncheng He, Pak Wai Chan, Q.S. Li
AbstractWind measurement offers an essential data source for a wide range of practices in the fields of meteorology and wind engineering. However, records of surface winds are usually influenced by terrain/topographic effects, and direct usage of raw data may bring in nonignorable errors for follow-up applications. A data-driven standardization scheme was recently ...... hiện toàn bộ
Data Quality Assessment and the Long-Term Trend of Ground Solar Radiation in ChinaJournal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology - Tập 47 Số 4 - Trang 1006-1016 - 2008
Guangfeng Shi, Tadahiro Hayasaka, Atsumu Ohmura, Zhi-Hua Chen, Biao Wang, Jian-Qi Zhao, Hui Zheng, Li Xu
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Solar radiation is one of the most important factors affecting climate and the environment. Routine measurements of irradiance are valuable for climate change research because of long time series and areal coverage. In this study, a set of quality assessment (QA) algorithms is used to test the quality of daily solar global, direct, and diffu...... hiện toàn bộ