Power spectrum techniques are applied to series of daily, weekly, and monthly average temperature and precipitation values, recorded since 1870 at the Woo'dstock Climatologioal Benchmark Station in Maryland, in order to gain a reasonable interpretation of the extent and frequency distribution of periodic variations in these data. Analysis procedures are outlined, and the results presented, inte...

For later development of design snow loads, the water equivalent of snow on the ground appears to be the best The appropriate climatological series for this is the winter Among many distributions investigated, the lognormal Distributions fitted to 140 stations provided data In southern areas of the United States, where snow does This requires the A contour map is provided of the mixture paramet...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Climatic Data Center has served as the archive of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) data from the F-8, F-10, F-11, F-13, F-14, and F-15 platforms covering the period from July 1987 to the present. Passive microwave satellite measurements from SSM/I have been used to generate climate p...