Applied Meteorology
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The successful Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission provides operational soil moisture products of high quality; yet its impacts on global carbon and water cycle estimation are yet to be further investigated. Here we assimilated... more
A climatology of the Great Plains low-level jet (LLJ) is developed from 2 yr of research rawinsonde data obtained up to eight times per day at a site in north-central Oklahoma. These data have better height and time resolution than... more
Climate change has become a challenge for the globe and impacting various systems. This study evaluated the seasonal and annual variabilities and trends of rainfall, temperature, and potential evapotranspiration for the period 1985-2019... more
Recently, thermal properties of the landscaped rooftops and walls have attracted the interest of researchers because of the potential to minimize energy consumption in urban areas and to aid summer-time thermal control. For this reason... more
The performance of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regulatory Model (AERMOD) Improvement Committee’s applied air dispersion model against 17 field study databases is described.... more
Pengamatan radiosonde merupakan pengamatan variabel meteorologi di udara atas (tekanan atmosfer, suhu, kelembapan, dan angin horizontal) menggunakan radiosonde (instrumen yang dibawa oleh balon melalui atmosfer, dilengkapi dengan... more
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite was launched on 27 November 1997, and data from all the instruments first became available approximately 30 days after the launch. Since then, much progress has been made in the... more
Quantitative use of satellite-derived maps of monthly rainfall requires some measure of the accuracy of the satellite estimates. The rainfall estimate for a given map grid box is subject to both remote sensing error and, especially in the... more
A new method of seeding convective clouds for the purpose of augmenting rainfall is being developed in South Africa. Flares that produce small salt particles (0.5-m mean diameter) are attached to the trailing edge of the wings of seeding... more
... Drying of the atmosphere above about 800 hPa (Fig. 4), with the departure of deep clouds in satellite imagery (Fig. 7), would allow for radiational cooling at the top of a fog (eg, Jiusto andLala 1980; Brown 1987; Fitzjarrald and Lala... more
Disdrometer data measured during the passage of tropical continental squall lines in Darwin, Australia, are analyzed to study characteristics of raindrop size distribution (DSD). Fifteen continental squall lines were selected for the DSD... more
ABSTRACT An armored T-28 research aircraft made direct observations of the hydrometeors present at approximately the -3°C temperature level in the inflow region of a multicell thunderstorm. During the penetration, both the Colorado State... more
The water and heat balances of an arable field and a forest in the boreal zone in Scandinavia were explored using 3 yr of observations and simulations with two different soil–vegetation–atmosphere transfer (SVAT) models over a 30-yr... more
This study compiles a nationwide database of flood fatalities for the contiguous United States from 1959 to 2005. Assembled data include the location of fatalities, age and gender of victims, activity and/or setting of fatalities, and the... more
Accounting for the current knowledge of the convective boundary layer structure and characteristics, a new formulation for the eddy diffusivities to be used in atmospheric dispersion models has been derived. That is, expressions for the... more