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“It’s Not Balancing out Like It Should Be”: Perceptions of Local Climate Variability in Native Oklahoma
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractFieldwork was conducted in 2009?11 with Native American agriculturalists and traditionalists in southwestern Oklahoma on the form and use of their weather and climate knowledge: how it is constituted, how it is ...
“Old Indian Ways” of Predicting the Weather: Senator Robert S. Kerr and the Winter Predictions of 1950–51 and 1951–52
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In September 1950, U.S. Senator Robert S. Kerr (D-Oklahoma) wrote to Indian leaders across the United States in order to ?make some determination with regard to whether or not we are going to have an early winter and whether ...
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 ...
Basic State Energy Budget Analysis for Phases 1, 2 and 3 of GATE
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A diagnostic study of the budget of zonal and eddy components of available potential and kinetic energy is presented for the large-scale basic (time-averaged) state of the atmosphere for Phases 1, 2 and 3 of GATE. The Final ...
Tropospheric Static Stability and Central North American Growing Season Rainfall
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This study investigates the relation between tropospheric static stability and central North American growing season (May?August) rainfall for the highly contrasting years of 1975. 1976, and 1979. It uses two extensive ...
Further Case Studies of Tropical Atlantic Surface Atmospheric and Oceanic Patterns Associated with Sub-Saharan Drought
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Sub-Saharan West Africa (10°?20°N) receives rainfall from westward-propagating disturbance lines that have their base within and receive most of their moisture from the low-level, wedge-shaped, southwest monsoonal flow off ...
The Active Layer of the Upper Atlantic Ocean
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The procedure to calculate the active layer depth of the upper ocean, as proposed by Van den Dool and Horel (DH), was applied to the Atlantic Ocean from 20°S to 70°N. In this method, the observed climatological annual cycle ...
The ARM Data Quality Program
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Tornado Climatology and Risk Perception in Central Oklahoma
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
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