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RISAn Attempt to Address the Question, “Are Weather patterns Changing?” for a Nonspecialist Audience
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This paper is derived from an address at an Illinois agricultural conference an the specified topic, ?Are weather patterns changing?? It examines three contrasting perspectives on the weather and climate of the recent past ...
On the Development of Regional Climatic Scenarios for Policy-Oriented Climatic-Impact Assessment
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A review on the development of climatic scenarios related to policy-oriented assessment of the impact of climatic variations is presented. It seeks to provide background information needed to evaluate the extent to which ...
Case Studies of Tropical Atlantic Surface Circulation Patterns During Recent Sub-Saharan Weather Anomalies: 1967 and 1968
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Sub-Saharan West Africa (10?20°N) receives moisture from the tropical Atlantic via low-level south-westerly flow across the southwestern coast of West Africa. This paper utilizes a 1arge data set to identify the tropical ...
On the Heat Budget of Hydrosphere and Atmosphere in the Indian Ocean
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The heat budget of the atmosphere-ocean-land system in the Indian Ocean region (30°N?30°S, 30?120°E) is studied on the basis of ocean surface heat flux calculations from long-term ship observations and satellite-derived ...
Climate Research and Seasonal Forecasting for West Africans: Perceptions, Dissemination, and Use?
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Beginning in response to the disastrous drought of 1968?73, considerable research and monitoring have focused on the characteristics, causes, predictability, and impacts of West African Soudano?Sahel (10°?18°N) rainfall ...
Jet Contrails and Cirrus Cloud: A Feasibility Study Employing High-Resolution Satellite Imagery
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The results of a pilot study to assess the feasibility of documenting the occurrence of jet contrails over the United States from high-resolution Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) imagery are presented. They ...
Relations between Temperature and Residential Natural Gas Consumption in the Central and Eastern United States
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The increased U.S. natural gas price volatility since the mid-to-late-1980s deregulation generally is attributed to the deregulated market being more sensitive to temperature-related residential demand. This study therefore ...
Variability of the Intertropical Front (ITF) and Rainfall over the West African Sudan–Sahel Zone
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Intertropical Front (ITF) is a fundamental feature of the atmospheric circulation over West Africa. It separates the wedge of warm moist southwesterly monsoon flow off the tropical Atlantic from much hotter and very ...
North Atlantic Oscillation: Concept and an Application
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: An outline of the concept of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), along with some of its history is presented. This is followed by a brief presentation of the results and implications of an encouraging new application of ...
Estimation of Large-Scale Vertical Motion over the Central United States for Summer
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: We investigate the method-dependence of large-scale vertical motion (LSVM) estimates given by four variants of the kinematic approach (Endlich-Clark triangle; Chien-Smith pentagon; Objective analysis; Kung optimization) ...