Geography & Atmospheric Science: Recent submissions
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Diagnosis of the Forcing and Structure of the Coastal Jet near Cape Mendocino Using In Situ Observations and Numerical Simulations
(American Meteorological Society, 2007-09-01)Several flights were conducted by the University of Wyoming King Air near Cape Mendocino, California, during June 2004 to examine finescale features of the coastal low-level jet (CJ) that frequently forms during summer ... -
Cessation of the 22–25 June 2006 Coastally Trapped Wind Reversal
(American Meteorological Society, 2010-07-01)Coastally trapped wind reversals (CTWRs) occur periodically in the marine boundary layer off the western coast of the United States and dramatically change the low-level wind regime and coastal weather. Southerly flow ... -
VOCALS-CUpEx: the Chilean Upwelling Experiment
(European Geosciences Union, 2011-01-01)The VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study Regional Experiment (VOCALS-REx) was a major field experiment conducted in spring of 2008 off southern Peru and northern Chile, aimed at better understanding the coupled climate ... -
Marine boundary layer over the subtropical southeast Pacific during VOCALS-REx – Part 2: Synoptic variability
(European Geosciences Union, 2010-01-01)In the second part of this work we study the day-to-day variability of the marine atmospheric boundary layer (MBL) over the subtropical southeast Pacific using primarily results from a numerical simulation that covered the ... -
Marine boundary layer over the subtropical southeast Pacific during VOCALS-REx – Part 1: Mean structure and diurnal cycle
(European Geosciences Union, 2010-01-01)Atmospheric subsidence over the subtropical southeast Pacific (SEP) leads to a low-level anticyclonic circulation, a cool sea surface and a cloud-topped marine boundary layer (MBL). Observations in this region from a major ... -
"They Would Not Take Me There" People, Places, and Stories from Champlain's Travels in Canada 1603-1616
(North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS), 2010-08-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
Review of Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism
(North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS), 2011-01-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
Review of Boundaries of Home: Mapping for Local Empowerment
(North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS), 1995-12-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
Review of They Would Not Take Me There: People, Places and Stories from Champlain's travels in Canada, 1603-1616
(North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS), 2012-01-01)No abstract available for this item. -
Momentum transport processes in the stratiform regions of mesoscale convective systems over the western Pacific warm pool
(Royal Meteorological Society, 2006-04-01)Momentum transport by the stratiform components of mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) during the Tropical Ocean–Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Response Experiment in December 1992 is investigated using a ... -
Layer inflow into precipitating convection over the western tropical Pacific
(Royal Meteorological Society, 2002-07-01)A conceptual model of tropical convection frequently used in convective parametrization schemes is that of a parcel process in which boundary-layer air, characterized by high equivalent potential temperature, ascends to ... -
Simulating the Transition from Drizzling Marine Stratocumulus to Boundary Layer Cumulus with a Mesoscale Model
(American Meteorological Society, 2003-10-01)A case of coastal California summer season boundary layer cloud has been simulated with the U.S. Navy Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System and the results analyzed in the context of consistency with conclusions ... -
Processing of cloud condensation nuclei by collision-coalescence in a mesoscale model
(American Geophysical Union, 2006-09-26)The Naval Research Laboratory's Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS) is employed to explore the relative importance of source, sink, and transport processes in producing an accurate forecast of the ... -
Assessment of variability in continental low stratiform clouds based on observations of radar reflectivity
(American Geophysical Union, 2005-09-22)The variability of overcast low stratiform clouds observed over the ARM Climate Research Facility Southern Great Plains (ACRF SGP) site is analyzed, and an approach to characterizing subgrid variability based on assumed ... -
Observations of Stratocumulus Clouds and Their Effect on the Eastern Pacific Surface Heat Budget along 20°S
(American Meteorological Society, 2012-12-01)Widespread stratocumulus clouds were observed on nine transects from seven research cruises to the southeastern tropical Pacific Ocean along 20°S, 75°–85°W in October–November of 2001–08. The nine transects sample a unique ... -
Thermodynamic and Aerosol Controls in Southeast Pacific Stratocumulus
(American Meteorological Society, 2012-04-01)A near-large-eddy simulation approach with size-revolving (bin) microphysics is employed to evaluate the relative sensitivity of southeast Pacific marine boundary layer cloud properties to thermodynamic and aerosol parameters. ... -
Multidimensional Longwave Forcing of Boundary Layer Cloud Systems
(American Meteorological Society, 2008-12-01)The importance of multidimensional (MD) longwave radiative effects on cloud dynamics is evaluated in an eddy-resolving model (ERM)—the two-dimensional analog to large-eddy simulation (LES)—framework employing multidimensional ... -
Large-Eddy Simulation of Post-Cold-Frontal Continental Stratocumulus
(American Meteorological Society, 2010-12-01)Previous large-eddy simulations (LES) of stratocumulus-topped boundary layers have been exclusively set in marine environments. Boundary layer stratocumulus clouds are also prevalent over the continent but have not been ... -
Large-Eddy Observation of Post-Cold-Frontal Continental Stratocumulus
(American Meteorological Society, 2010-10-01)More studies on the dynamics of marine stratus and stratocumulus clouds have been performed than comparable studies on continental stratocumulus. Therefore, to increase the number of observations of continental stratocumulus ... -
Fidelity of Analytic Drop Size Distributions in Drizzling Stratiform Clouds Based on Large-Eddy Simulations
(American Meteorological Society, 2009-08-01)Cloud microphysical parameterizations and retrievals rely heavily on knowledge of the shape of drop size distributions (DSDs). Many investigations assume that DSDs in the entire or partial drop size range may be approximated ...