[1] The new generation of remote sensors on board NASA’s A‐Train constellation offers the possibility of observing the atmospheric boundary layer in different regimes, with or without clouds. In this study we use data from the Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (AIRS) and of the Rain In Cumulus over the Ocean (RICO) campaign, to verify the accuracy and precision of the AIRS Version 5 Level 2 support ...

Pricing and charging are the most important management functionalities future commercial networks need to offer. Since the Internet is on the move to provide differentiated services, for the backbone based on the Differentiated Services Architecture (DiffServ), suitable and scalable management mechanisms are required. Based on a new view of pricing, considered as important management informatio...

Dyadic scheme of wavelet signal decomposition leads to a specific division of frequency bands. It is comparable to mel-frequency division and may be used in effective parameterization of speech signal in recognition systems, speech coding or other speech signal based applications. This paper discusses efficiency of different spectral distance measures applied to wavelet-parameterized speech. Th...

Recent developments to the Local-scale Urban Meteorological Parameterization Scheme (LUMPS), a simple model able to simulate the urban energy balance, are presented. The major development is the coupling of LUMPS to the Net All-Wave Radiation Parameterization (NARP). Other enhancements include that the model now accounts for the changing availability of water at the surface, seasonal variations...

Typical parameterization schemes utilize linear prediction or melscaled filter-banks, which are classic windowed DFT based methods. In this paper a new optimized adaptive wavelet parameterization scheme is presented. A novel extension of the Best Basis algorithm is used on wavelet-packet cosine transform (WPCT) instead of typical filter bank. Obtained features are tested using Polish language H...

Data provided under the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program of the U.S. Department of Energy have been analyzed with the goal of evaluating a radiation parameterization scheme currently used in both cloud resolving models and general circulation models (GCMs). These evaluations are also used to develop refinements to the parameterization scheme, and the performance of the climate mo...

East Coast Lows (ECLs) are intense low-pressure systems which occur on average several times each year off the eastern coast of Australia, in particular southern Queensland, New South Wales (NSW) and eastern Victoria. East Coast Lows will often intensify rapidly overnight making them one of the more dangerous weather systems to affect and damage the eastern coast of Australia each year. They ar...