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A Climatological Analysis Of The Warm-Season Wind Regimes Of The Beaufort/Chukchi Seas Coasts, William J. Baule
A Climatological Analysis Of The Warm-Season Wind Regimes Of The Beaufort/Chukchi Seas Coasts, William J. Baule
School of Natural Resources: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Climate records for wind speed, wind direction, and temperature are analyzed for the period from 1979-2009 for the Beaufort/Chukchi Seas region of the Arctic. Wind records have historically been subject to far fewer analyses than other meteorological variables, such as temperature or precipitation. This is particularly true for data sparse regions. Data were collected for a large area in the Beaufort/Chukchi Seas region, which includes portions of Russia, the United States, and Canada. Data from 250 stations were collected from a variety of networks throughout the region and uniformly quality controlled. Eight long-term stations were identified for data completeness and …
Arctic Cloud Macrophysical Characteristics From Cloudsat And Calipso, Yinghui Liu, Jeffrey R. Key, Steven A. Ackerman, Gerald G. Mace, Qiuqing Zhang
Arctic Cloud Macrophysical Characteristics From Cloudsat And Calipso, Yinghui Liu, Jeffrey R. Key, Steven A. Ackerman, Gerald G. Mace, Qiuqing Zhang
United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications
The lidar and radar profiling capabilities of the CloudSat and Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder (CALIPSO) satellites provide opportunities to improve the characterization of cloud properties. An Arctic cloud climatology based on their observations may be fundamentally different from earlier Arctic cloud climatologies based on passive satellite observations, which have limited contrast between the cloud and underlying surface. Specifically, the Radar–Lidar Geometrical Profile product (RL-GEOPROF) provides cloud vertical profiles fromthe combination of active lidar and radar. Based on this data product for the period July 2006 to March 2011, this paper presents a new cloud macrophysical property characteristic analysis for …
Arctic Cloud Macrophysical Characteristics From Cloudsat And Calipso, Yinghui Liu, Jeffrey R. Key, Steven A. Ackerman, Gerald G. Mace, Qiuqing Zhang
Arctic Cloud Macrophysical Characteristics From Cloudsat And Calipso, Yinghui Liu, Jeffrey R. Key, Steven A. Ackerman, Gerald G. Mace, Qiuqing Zhang
United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications
The lidar and radar profiling capabilities of the CloudSat and Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder (CALIPSO) satellites provide opportunities to improve the characterization of cloud properties. An Arctic cloud climatology based on their observations may be fundamentally different from earlier Arctic cloud climatologies based on passive satellite observations, which have limited contrast between the cloud and underlying surface. Specifically, the Radar–Lidar Geometrical Profile product (RL-GEOPROF) provides cloud vertical profiles from the combination of active lidar and radar. Based on this data product for the period July 2006 to March 2011, this paper presents a new cloud macrophysical property characteristic analysis …