Abstract: Multivariate analyses of acreage abandonment patterns in the U.S. Great Plains winter wheat region indicate that the major mode of variation is an in-phase oscillation confined to the western half of the overall area, which ...

Abstract: GOES imagery from 7 September 1981 shows five tropical disturbances in various stages of development. While the photo appears to indicate that they may be recurving under the influence of a persistent weakness in the ...

Abstract: One popular and apocalyptic vision of the world influenced by increasing concentrations of infrared-absorbing trace gases is that of ecological disaster brought about by rapidly rising temperatures, sea level, and evaporation ...

Abstract: An orthogonal principal component analysis of National Climatic Center summer thunderstorm frequency data over Virginia revealed five statistically significant modes of variation. In some, power was spread statewide, while ...

Abstract: In a simulation of enhanced tropical cyclones in a warmer world, Knutson and Tuleya make several assumptions that are not borne out in the real world. They include an unrealistically large carbon dioxide growth rate, an ...

Abstract: Using permafrost boreholes, Lachenbruch and Marshall recently reported evidence for a 2°?4°C warming in North Alaska occurring at some undetermined time during the last century. Popular accounts suggest their findings are ...

Abstract: In an attempt to produce an objective climatology of peninsular Florida thunderstorms that does not suffer from observer bias, we composited 9088 hours of high-resolution manually digitized radar (MDR) data and 28 days of ...

Abstract: The frequency of ?wintry mix? precipitation?freezing rain and ice pellets?is considerable in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Despite the fact that the general conditions necessary to support the various winter ...