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Recurrence Analysis of Climate Sensitivity Experiments
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)A difficulty with the statistical techniques which are ordinarily used in the analysis of climate sensitivity experiments is that they do not identify the stable, or recurrent, aspects of the experimental response. Therefore, ... -
Indices of the Southern Hemisphere Zonal Wind
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)The time and spatial variation of the Southern Hemisphere 500 hPa zonal wind has been examined using spectral analysis, bandpass filtering, and empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis applied to a 15-year sample of ... -
Secular Variation of Northern Hemisphere 50 kPa Geopotential Height
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)There is accumulating evidence in the literature that different short-period climate regimes (subclimates) may have characterized the Northern Hemisphere during the past 40 years. We, therefore, investigate the 40-yr record ... -
Prediction of Indian Monsoon Rainfall: Further Exploration
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)This study expands recent research into the predictability of Indian monsoon rainfall anomalies. In addition to the April latitude position of the 500 mb ridge over India, and Darwin pressure tendency, the May surface ... -
Nimbus-7 Global Cloud Climatology. part I: Algorithms and Validation
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)Data from the Temperature Humidity Infrared Radiometer (THIR) and the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS), both aboard the Nimbus-7 satellite, are used to determine cloudiness parameters for the globe. The 11.5 ?m THIR ... -
Analysis of Diurnal, Interdiurnal and Interannual Variations during Northern Hemisphere Summers Using METEOSAT Infrared Channels
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)Using METEOSAT data in the ISCCP B2 format, we study the mean radiation fields and their fluctuations during Northern Hemisphere summer (June, July, August) of 1983, 1984 and 1985, for regions of 5°?5° located from 50°N ... -
Assessing Climate Information Use in Agribusiness. Part I: Actual and Potential Use and Impediments to Usage
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)A project for the development of methodology to enable agribusiness decision makers to utilize more effectively climate information involved investigation of three agribusiness firms, as well as measurement of their actual ... -
Assessing Climate Information Use in Agribusiness. Part II: Decision Experiments to Estimate Economic Value
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)Difficulty in evaluating the economic effectiveness of climate information is a significant impediment to expanding the use of that information. An innovative approach, combining a decision experiment and an empirical ... -
An Earth Outgoing Longwave Radiation Climate Model. Part II: Radiation with Clouds Included
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)An Earth outgoing longwave radiation (OLWR) climate model was constructed for radiation budget studies. The model consists of the upward radiative transfer parameterization of Thompson and Warren, the cloud cover model of ... -
Estimation of Surface Insolation Using Sun-Synchronous Satellite Data
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)A technique is presented for estimating insulation at the Earth's surface using only sun-synchronous satellite data. The technique was tested by comparing the insolation results from year-long satellite datasets with ... -
The Global Climate for March–May 1988: The End of the 1986–87 Pacific Warm Episode and the Onset of Widespread Drought in the United States
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Intraseasonal Atmospheric Teleconnection Patterns during the Northern Hemisphere Winter
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)The time-longitude cross section of 30?60 day filtered equatorial outgoing longwave radiation indicates many occasions or irregular (or even westward) movement during the five winters of 1979?84. Such occasions are defined ... -
A Spectral Climatology
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)Using 5 years of daily initialized height fields from the National Meteorological Center, expressed as coefficients of spherical harmonies, a climatology of the annual cycle has been formulated for the 1000, 700, 500 and ... -
A Study on Climatological Aspects of Winds in Japan. Part I: Mean Wind Fields and Annual Variations of Winds
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)Using the winds in Japan as an example, the validity of the vectorial treatment of the surface wind in climatological investigations has been demonstrated, and the expressions for climatological mean and variability of the ... -
Precipitation Variability over the Caribbean and Tropical Americas Associated with the Southern Oscillation
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)Seasonal and annual (July through June) precipitation data for up to 197 stations are used to analyze variability in the High/Dry (H/D) and Low/Wet (L/W or warm event) modes of the Southern Oscillation (SO) over the tropical ... -
Meridional Transport of Eddy Sensible Heat in Winters Marked by Extremes of the North Atlantic Oscillation, 1948/49–1979/80
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)Composite patterns of eddy sensible heat transport at 700 mb on the Northern Hemisphere are derived for winters [December, January, February (DJF)] marked by extremes of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) occurring in ... -
Temperature Patterns and Trends in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)Empirical orthogonal functions (E0Fs) and stepwise regression are used to investigate zonally averaged seasonal temperature anomaly patterns and trends in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. The first three EOFs ... -
A Bayesian Approach to Statistical Inference about Climate Change
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)A Bayesian approach to statistical inference about climate change based on the two-phase regression model is presented. This approach is useful when nonobservational information is available about possible climate change. ... -
Climatological Observations and Predicted Sublimation Rates at Lake Hoare, Antarctica
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)In December 1985, an automated meteorological station was established at Lake Hoare in the dry valley region of Antarctica. Here, we report on the first year-round observations available for any site in Taylor Valley. This ... -
Sensitivity of 30-Day Dynamical Forecasts to Continental Snow cover
(American Meteorological Society, 1988)Several series of 30-day simulations with a global simulation model are used to evaluate the sensitivities to continental snow cover over North America and Eurasia. The model is initialized with National Meteorological ...