Search Results - "Journal of applied meteorology and climatology"

Global Patterns of Crop Production Losses Associated with Droughts from 1983 to 2009 by Kim, Wonsik, Iizumi, Toshichika, Nishimori, Motoki

“…Droughts represent an important type of climate extreme that reduces crop production and food security. Although this fact is well known, the global geographic…”
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Observed Link of Extreme Hourly Precipitation Changes to Urbanization over Coastal South China by Wu, Mengwen, Luo, Yali, Chen, Fei, Wong, Wai Kin

“…Understanding changes in subdaily rainfall extremes is critical to urban planners for building more sustainable and resilient cities. In this study, the hourly…”
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Synergistic Interactions between Urban Heat Islands and Heat Waves: The Impact in Cities Is Larger than the Sum of Its Parts by Li, Dan, Bou-Zeid, Elie

“…Cities are well known to be hotter than the rural areas that surround them; this phenomenon is called the urban heat island. Heat waves are excessively hot…”
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A Global Land Cover Climatology Using MODIS Data by Broxton, Patrick D., Zeng, Xubin, Sulla-Menashe, Damien, Troch, Peter A.

“…Global land cover data are widely used in weather, climate, and hydrometeorological models. The Collection 5.1 Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer…”
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ClimateWNA—High-Resolution Spatial Climate Data for Western North America by Wang, Tongli, Hamann, Andreas, Spittlehouse, David L., Murdock, Trevor Q.

“…This study addresses the need to provide comprehensive historical climate data and climate change projections at a scale suitable for, and readily accessible…”
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Climatological Variability of Fire Weather in Australia by Dowdy, Andrew J.

“…Long-term variations in fire weather conditions are examined throughout Australia from gridded daily data from 1950 to 2016. The McArthur forest fire danger…”
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Improved Historical Temperature and Precipitation Time Series for U.S. Climate Divisions by Vose, Russell S., Applequist, Scott, Squires, Mike, Durre, Imke, Menne, Matthew J., Williams, Claude N., Fenimore, Chris, Gleason, Karin, Arndt, Derek

“…This paper describes an improved edition of the climate division dataset for the conterminous United States (i.e., version 2). The first improvement is to the…”
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Satellite Estimation of Falling Snow: A Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory Perspective by Skofronick-Jackson, Gail, Kulie, Mark, Milani, Lisa, Munchak, Stephen J., Wood, Norman B., Levizzani, Vincenzo

“…Retrievals of falling snow from space-based observations represent key inputs for understanding and linking Earth’s atmospheric, hydrological, and energy…”
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Wet-Bulb Temperature from Relative Humidity and Air Temperature by Stull, Roland

“…An equation is presented for wet-bulb temperature as a function of air temperature and relative humidity at standard sea level pressure. It was found as an…”
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A Simple Accurate Formula for Calculating Saturation Vapor Pressure of Water and Ice by Huang, Jianhua

“…It is necessary to calculate the saturation vapor pressure of water and of ice for some purposes in many disciplines. A number of formulas are available for…”
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African Rainfall Climatology Version 2 for Famine Early Warning Systems by Novella, Nicholas S., Thiaw, Wassila M.

“…This paper describes a new gridded, daily 29-yr precipitation estimation dataset centered over Africa at 0.1° spatial resolution. Called the African Rainfall…”
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Climatology, Variability, and Trends in the U.S. Vapor Pressure Deficit, an Important Fire-Related Meteorological Quantity by Seager, Richard, Hooks, Allison, Williams, A. Park, Cook, Benjamin, Nakamura, Jennifer, Henderson, Naomi

“…Unlike the commonly used relative humidity, vapor pressure deficit (VPD) is an absolute measure of the difference between the water vapor content of the air…”
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Extension of the TAMSAT Satellite-Based Rainfall Monitoring over Africa and from 1983 to Present by Tarnavsky, Elena, Grimes, David, Maidment, Ross, Black, Emily, Allan, Richard P., Stringer, Marc, Chadwick, Robin, Kayitakire, Francois

“…Tropical Applications of Meteorology Using Satellite Data and Ground-Based Observations (TAMSAT) rainfall monitoring products have been extended to provide…”
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Verification of Heat Stress Thresholds for a Health-Based Heat-Wave Definition by Di Napoli, Claudia, Pappenberger, Florian, Cloke, Hannah L.

“…Heat waves represent a threat to human health and excess mortality is one of the associated negative effects. A health-based definition for heat waves is…”
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Improving the Representation of Resolved and Unresolved Topographic Effects on Surface Wind in the WRF Model by Jiménez, Pedro A., Dudhia, Jimy

“…The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model presents a high surface wind speed bias over plains and valleys that constitutes a limitation for the…”
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The ClimEx Project: A 50-Member Ensemble of Climate Change Projections at 12-km Resolution over Europe and Northeastern North America with the Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM5) by Leduc, Martin, Mailhot, Alain, Frigon, Anne, Martel, Jean-Luc, Ludwig, Ralf, Brietzke, Gilbert B., Giguère, Michel, Brissette, François, Turcotte, Richard, Braun, Marco, Scinocca, John

“…The Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM5) Large Ensemble (CRCM5-LE) consists of a dynamically downscaled version of the CanESM2 50-member initial-conditions…”
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Evaluation of Three Planetary Boundary Layer Schemes in the WRF Model by Hu, Xiao-Ming, Nielsen-Gammon, John W., Zhang, Fuqing

“…Accurate depiction of meteorological conditions, especially within the planetary boundary layer (PBL), is important for air pollution modeling, and PBL…”
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An Observational Case Study of Synergies between an Intense Heat Wave and the Urban Heat Island in Beijing by An, Ning, Dou, Jingjing, González-Cruz, Jorge E., Bornstein, Robert D., Miao, Shiguang, Li, Lin

“…The focus of this study is an intense heat episode that occurred on 9–13 July 2017 in Beijing, China, that resulted in severe impacts on natural and human…”
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Evaluation of Global Reanalysis Land Surface Wind Speed Trends to Support Wind Energy Development Using In Situ Observations by Fan, Wenxin, Liu, Yi, Chappell, Adrian, Dong, Li, Xu, Rongrong, Ekström, Marie, Fu, Tzung-May, Zeng, Henzhong

“…Global reanalysis products are important tools across disciplines to study past meteorological changes and are especially useful for wind energy resource…”
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Observed Spatial Characteristics of Beijing Urban Climate Impacts on Summer Thunderstorms by Dou, Jingjing, Wang, Yingchun, Bornstein, Robert, Miao, Shiguang

“…This study investigates interactive effects from the Beijing urban area on temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and precipitation by use of hourly…”
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