Characteristics of nocturnal low-level jets observed in the North Florida area

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2605-2621

  Karipot, Anandakumar ^a   Leclerc, Monique Y ^a   Zhang, Gengsheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLORIDA; FRONTAL SYSTEM; HILBERT HUANG TRANSFORMS; INERTIAL OSCILLATION; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; JET FORMATION; LARGE AMPLITUDE OSCILLATION; LOW LEVEL JET; NORTH AMERICAN; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; REANALYSIS; SEASONAL AND INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SODAR MEASUREMENTS; SUMMER MONTHS; SURFACE PRESSURES; WIND PROFILES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

JETS;

AMPLITUDE; ANNUAL VARIATION; JET FLOW; LOW FLOW; NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SODAR; SUMMER; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY; WINTER;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350345467     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2705.1     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Andreas, E. L, K. J. Claffey, and A. P. Makshtas, 2000: Low-level atmospheric jets and inversions over the western Weddell sea. Bound.-Layer Meteor., 97, 459-486.
2. Arritt, R. W., T. D. Rink, M. Segal, D. P. Todey, C. A. Clark, M. J. Mitchell, and K. M. Labas, 1997: The Great Plains low-level jet during the warm season of 1993. Mon. Wea. Rev., 125, 2176-2192.
3. Banta, R. M., R. K. Newsom, J. K. Lundquist, Y. L. Pichugina, R. L. Coulter, and L. Mahrt, 2002: Nocturnal low-level jet characteristics over Kansas during CASES-99. Bound.-Layer Meteor., 105, 221-252.
4. Blackadar, A. K., 1957: Boundary-layer wind maxima and their significance for the growth of nocturnal inversions. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 38, 283-290.
5. Bonner, W. D., 1968: Climatology of the low level jet. Mon. Wea. Rev., 96, 833-850.
6. Burk, S. D., and W. T. Thompson, 1996: The summertime low-level jet and marine boundary layer structure along the California coast. Mon. Wea. Rev., 124, 668-686.
7. Duffy, D. G., 2004: The application of Hilbert-Huang transforms to meteorological datasets. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 21, 599-611.
8. Gupta, S., R. T. McNider, M. Trainer, R. J. Zamora, K. Knuff, and M. P. Singh, 1997: Nocturnal wind structure and plume growth rates due to inertial oscillations. J. Appl. Meteor., 36, 1050-1063.
9. Higgins, R. W., Y. Yao, E. S. Yarosh, J. E. Janowiak, and K. C. Mo, 1997: Influence of the Great Plains low-level jet on summertime precipitation and moisture transport over the central United States. J. Climate, 10, 481-507.
10. Hoecker, W. L., 1963: Three southerly low-level jet systems delineated by the Weather Bureau special pibal network of 1961. Mon. Wea. Rev., 91, 573-582.
11. Holt, T. R., 1996: Mesoscale forcing of a boundary layer jet along the California coast. J. Geophys. Res., 101, 4235-4254.
12. Holton, J. R., 1967: The diurnal boundary layer wind oscillation above sloping terrain. Tellus, 19, 199-205.
13. Huang, N. E., and Coauthors, 1998: The empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectrum for nonlinear and non-stationary time series analysis. Proc. Roy. Soc. London, 454A, 903-995.
14. Huang, N. E., Z. Shen, and S. R. Long, 1999: A new view of nonlinear water waves: The Hilbert spectrum. Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech., 31, 417-457.
15. Huang, N. E., M. L. Wu, S. R. Long, S. S. Shen, W. D. Qu, P. Gloersen, and K. L. Fan, 2003: A confidence limit for the empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectral analysis. Proc. Roy. Soc. London, 459A, 2317-2345.
16. 2 exchange over a tall forest canopy associated with intermittent low-level jet activity. Theor. Appl. Climatol., 85, 243-248.
17. 2 flux measurements over a forest canopy. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D10102, doi:10.1029/ 2007JD009149.
18. King, J. C., and J. Turner, 1997: Antarctic Meteorology and Climatology. Cambridge University Press, 409 pp.
19. Li, J., and Y.-L. Chen, 1998: Barrier jets during TAMEX. Mon. Wea. Rev., 126, 959-971.
20. Lundquist, J., 2003: Intermittent and elliptical inertial oscillations in the atmospheric boundary layer. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 2661-2673.
21. Mahrt, L., 1999: Stratified atmospheric boundary layers. Bound.-Layer Meteor., 90, 375-396.
22. Mathieu, N., I. B. Strachan, M. Y. Leclerc, A. Karipot, and E. Pattey, 2005: On the use of NBL budget technique: Delineating optimum atmospheric conditions. Agric. For. Meteor., 135, 35-43.
23. McCorkle, M. D., 1988: Simulation of surface-moisture effects on the Great Plains low-level jet. Mon. Wea. Rev., 116, 1705-1720.
24. McNider, R. T., and R. A. Pielke, 1981: Diurnal boundary-layer development over sloping terrain. J. Atmos. Sci., 38, 2198-2212.
25. Mesinger, F., and Coauthors, 2006: North American Regional Reanalysis. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 87, 343-360.
26. Mitchell, M. J., R. W. Arritt, and K. Labas, 1995: A climatology of the warm season Great Plains low-level jet using wind profiler observations. Wea. Forecasting, 10, 576-591.
27. Parish, T. R., 1983: The influence of the Antarctic Peninsula on the wind field over the western Weddell Sea. J. Geophys. Res., 88, 2684-2692.
28. Parish, T. R., 2000: Forcing of the summertime low-level jet along the California coast. J. Appl. Meteor., 39, 2421-2433.
29. Parish, T. R., A. R. Rodi, and R. D. Clark, 1988: A case study of the summertime Great Plains low level jet. Mon. Wea. Rev., 116, 94-105.
30. Smedman, A. S., H. Bergstrom, and U. Hogstrom, 1995: Spectra, variances and length scales in a marine stable boundary layer dominated by a low-level jet. Bound.-Layer Meteor., 76, 211-232.
31. Song, J., K. Liao, R. L. Coulter, and B. M. Lesht, 2005: Climatology of the low-level jet at the Southern Great Plains atmospheric boundary layer experiment site. J. Appl. Meteor., 44, 1593-1606.
32. Uccellini, L.W., 1980: On the role of upper tropospheric jet streaks and leeside cyclogenesis in the development of low-level jets in the Great Plains. Mon. Wea. Rev., 108, 1689-1696.
33. Weaver, S. J., and S. Nigam, 2008: Variability of the Great Plains low-level jet: Large-scale circulation context and hydro-climate impacts. J. Climate, 21, 1532-1551.
34. Whiteman, C., D. X. Bian, and S. Zhong, 1997: Low-level jet climatology from enhanced rawinsonde observations at a site in the southern Great Plains. J. Appl. Meteor., 36, 1363-1376.
35. Wu, M. L. C., S. Schubert, and N. E. Huang, 1999: The development of the South Asian summer monsoon and the intraseasonal oscillation. J. Climate, 12, 2054-2075.
36. Wu, Y., and S. Raman, 1998: The summertime Great Plains low-level jet and the effect of its origin on moisture transport. Bound.-Layer Meteor., 88, 445-466.
37. Zemba, J., and C. A. Friehe, 1987: The marine boundary layer jet in the coastal ocean dynamics experiment. J. Geophys. Res., 92, 1489-1496.
38. Zhang, D.-L., S. Zhang, and S. J. Weaver, 2006: Low-level jets over the mid-Atlantic states: Warm-season climatology and a case study. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 45, 194-209.
39. Zhong, S., J. D. Fast, and X. Bian, 1996: A case study of the Great Plains low-level jet using wind profiler network data and a high resolution mesoscale model. Mon. Wea. Rev., 124, 785-806.