Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

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Volume 40 (2023): Issue 12 (Dec 2023)

About the Journal

The Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology (JTECH) publishes research describing instrumentation and methods used in atmospheric and oceanic research, including remote sensing instruments; measurements, validation, and data analysis techniques from satellites, aircraft, balloons, and surface-based platforms; in situ instruments, measurements, and methods for data acquisition, analysis, and interpretation and assimilation in numerical models; and information systems and algorithms.

ISSN: 0739-0572; eISSN: 1520-0426

Editors in Chief

Stephen Nesbitt, University of Illinois

Javier Fochesatto, University of Alaska Fairbanks

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2022 Journal Impact Factors in the Meteorology and Atmospheric Science and Engineering, Ocean categories

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Evaluation and Intercomparison of Small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Used for Atmospheric Research

Gijs de Boer
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Brian J. Butterworth
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Jack S. Elston
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Adam Houston
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Elizabeth Pillar-Little
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Brian Argrow
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Tyler M. Bell
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Phillip Chilson
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Christopher Choate
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Brian R. Greene
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Ashraful Islam
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Ryan Martz
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Michael Rhodes
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Daniel Rico
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Maciej Stachura
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Francesca M. Lappin
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Antonio R. Segales
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Seabrooke Whyte
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Matthew Wilson
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The Impact of Neutral Atmospheric Propagation Path on the Altimetry Performance of Interferometric Radar Altimeter

Fanwei Su
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Yunhua Wang
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Yining Bai
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Daozhong Sun
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Ge Chen
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Chunyong Ma
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Yanmin Zhang
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Wenzheng Jiang
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Proxy observations of surface wind from a globally distributed network of wave buoys

Ciara Dorsay
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Galen Egan
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Isabel Houghton
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Christie Hegermiller
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Pieter B. Smit
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Drift characteristics of Sea-Bird dissolved oxygen optode sensors

Alice S. Ren
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Daniel L. Rudnick
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Alistair Twombly
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Comparison of ADCP and ECCOv4r4 Currents in the Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent

David Halpern
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Megan K. Le
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Timothy A. Smith
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Patrick Heimbach

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An Overview of the Global Historical Climatology Network-Daily Database

Matthew J. Menne
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Imke Durre
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Russell S. Vose
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Byron E. Gleason
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Tamara G. Houston
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An Overview of the China Meteorological Administration Tropical Cyclone Database

Ming Ying
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Wei Zhang
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Hui Yu
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Xiaoqin Lu
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Jingxian Feng
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Yongxiang Fan
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Yongti Zhu
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Dequan Chen
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Geostationary Enhanced Temporal Interpolation for CERES Flux Products

David R. Doelling
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Norman G. Loeb
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Dennis F. Keyes
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Michele L. Nordeen
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Daniel Morstad
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Cathy Nguyen
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Bruce A. Wielicki
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David F. Young
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Moguo Sun
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The Evolution of the Goddard Profiling Algorithm to a Fully Parametric Scheme

Christian D. Kummerow
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David L. Randel
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Mark Kulie
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Nai-Yu Wang
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Ralph Ferraro
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S. Joseph Munchak
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Veljko Petkovic
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Comparison of Raindrop Size Distribution Measurements by Collocated Disdrometers

Ali Tokay
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Walter A. Petersen
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Patrick Gatlin
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Matthew Wingo
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Evaluation of the New Version of the Laser-Optical Disdrometer, OTT Parsivel2

Ali Tokay
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David B. Wolff
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Walter A. Petersen
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CERES Synoptic Product: Methodology and Validation of Surface Radiant Flux

David A. Rutan
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Seiji Kato
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David R. Doelling
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Fred G. Rose
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Le Trang Nguyen
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Thomas E. Caldwell
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Norman G. Loeb
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A New Sea Surface Height–Based Code for Oceanic Mesoscale Eddy Tracking

Evan Mason
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Ananda Pascual
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James C. McWilliams

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GeoColor: A Blending Technique for Satellite Imagery

Steven D. Miller
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Daniel T. Lindsey
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Curtis J. Seaman
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Jeremy E. Solbrig
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Demonstration of a Remotely Piloted Atmospheric Measurement and Charge Release Platform for Geoengineering

R. Giles Harrison
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Keri A. Nicoll
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Douglas J. Tilley
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Graeme J. Marlton
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Stefan Chindea
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Gavin P. Dingley
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Pejman Iravani
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David J. Cleaver
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Jonathan L. du Bois
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David Brus
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Separating Cloud and Drizzle Signals in Radar Doppler Spectra Using a Parametric Time Domain Method

Shashank S. Joshil
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Cuong M. Nguyen
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V. Chandrasekar
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J. Christine Chiu
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Yann Blanchard
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An Overview of the Global Historical Climatology Network-Daily Database

Matthew J. Menne
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Imke Durre
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Russell S. Vose
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Byron E. Gleason
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Tamara G. Houston
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Revisiting Microstructure Sensor Responses with Implications for Double-Diffusive Fluxes

Tobias Sommer
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Jeffrey R. Carpenter
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Martin Schmid
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Rolf G. Lueck
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Alfred Wüest
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An Overview of the China Meteorological Administration Tropical Cyclone Database

Ming Ying
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Wei Zhang
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Hui Yu
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Xiaoqin Lu
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Jingxian Feng
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Yongxiang Fan
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Yongti Zhu
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Dequan Chen
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Overview of the CALIPSO Mission and CALIOP Data Processing Algorithms

David M. Winker
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Mark A. Vaughan
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Ali Omar
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Yongxiang Hu
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Kathleen A. Powell
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Zhaoyan Liu
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William H. Hunt
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Stuart A. Young
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The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Sensor Package

Christian Kummerow
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William Barnes
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Toshiaki Kozu
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James Shiue
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Joanne Simpson

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Tropical Cyclone Intensity Experiment (TCI)

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