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Undercatch Adjustments for Tipping-Bucket Gauge Measurements of Solid Precipitation

Heated tipping-bucket (TB) gauges are used broadly in national weather monitoring networks, but their performance for the measurement of solid precipitation has not been well characterized. Manufacturer-provided TB gauges were evaluated at five test sites ...

AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC2020

Multi-Resolution Convolutional Neural Network for High-Resolution Downscaling of Wind Fields from Operational Weather Prediction Models in Complex Terrain

Jérôme François Sylvain Dujardin

Wind modelling in complex topography remains a challenging task because operational Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models have a spatial resolution that is too coarse to capture all the meaningful terrain-induced phenomena like channeling, blocking, sp ...

2020

Drivers of cloud droplet number variability in the summertime in the southeastern United States

Athanasios Nenes, André Welti

Here we analyze regional-scale data collected on board the NOAA WP-3D aircraft during the 2013 Southeast Nexus (SENEX) campaign to study the aerosol-cloud droplet link and quantify the sensitivity of droplet number to aerosol number, chemical composition, ...

COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH2020

Evaluation of GPM-era Global Satellite Precipitation Products over Multiple Complex Terrain Regions

Alexis Berne, Haonan Chen

The great success of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and its successor Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) has accelerated the development of global high-resolution satellite-based precipitation products (SPP). However, the quantitative a ...

2019

Effects of Atmospheric Processing on the Oxidative Potential of Biomass Burning Organic Aerosols

Athanasios Nenes, Kalliopi Violaki

Oxidative potential (OP), which is the ability of certain components in atmospheric particles to generate reactive oxidative species (ROS) and deplete antioxidants in vivo, is a prevailing toxicological mechanism underlying the adverse health effects assoc ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Cloud condensation nuclei activity of six pollenkitts and the influence of their surface activity

Athanasios Nenes

The role of surfactants in governing water interactions of atmospheric aerosols has been a recurring topic in cloud microphysics for more than two decades. Studies of detailed surface thermodynamics are limited by the availability of aerosol samples for ex ...

2019

Polarimetric radar characteristics of lightning initiation and propagating channels

Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Antonio Sunjerga, Amirhossein Mostajabi, Jacopo Grazioli, Nikola Besic, Urs Martin Germann

In this paper we present an analysis of a large dataset of lightning and polarimetric weather radar data collected in the course of a lightning measurement campaign that took place in the summer of 2017 in the area surrounding Säntis, in the northeastern p ...

2019

Innovative measurement techniques for atmospheric turbulence and wind energy

Fernando Carbajo Fuertes

The measurement of different atmospheric flow quantities is of utmost importance for a correct understanding of most atmospheric phenomena. Researchers and industry in the fields of meteorology and wind engineering demand extensive and accurate measurement ...

EPFL2018

How Are Turbulent Sensible Heat Fluxes and Snow Melt Rates Affected by a Changing Snow Cover Fraction?

Michael Lehning

The complex interaction between the atmospheric boundary layer and the heterogeneous land surface is typically not resolved in numerical models approximating the turbulent heat exchange processes. In this study, we consider the effect of the land surface h ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2018

Variability of wind turbine noise over a diurnal cycle

Fernando Porté Agel, Ka Ling Wu

The diurnal variation of atmospheric conditions over land has a significant effect on the wind and temperature distributions which greatly influence the generation and propagation of wind turbine aerodynamic sound. In this paper, a fully consistent unstead ...

2018

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