Weather and Forecasting: Recent submissions
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Hurricane Andrew's Landfall in South Florida. Part I: Standardizing Measurements for Documentation of Surface Wind Fields
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)Hurricane Andrew's landfall in south Florida left a swath of destruction, including many failed anemometer recording systems. Extreme destruction led to exaggerated claims of the range of wind speed that caused such damage. ... -
A Comparison of Measures-Oriented and Distributions-Oriented Approaches to Forecast Verification
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)The authors have carried out verification of 590 12?24-h high-temperature forecasts from numerical guidance products and human forecasters for Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, using both a measures-oriented verification scheme and ... -
The Local Analysis and Prediction System (LAPS): Analyses of Clouds, Precipitation, and Temperature
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)The Local Analysis and Prediction System combines numerous data sources into a set of analyses and forecasts on a 10-km grid with high temporal resolution. To arrive at an analysis of cloud cover, several input analyses ... -
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A Supercell Thunderstorm with Hook Echo in the San Joaquin Valley, California
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)This study documents a damaging supercell thunderstorm that occurred in California's San Joaquin Valley on 5 March 1994. The storm formed in a ?cold sector? environment similar to that documented for several other recent ... -
Satellite-Derived Integrated Water Vapor and Rain Intensity Patterns: Indicators for Rapid Cyclogenesis
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)Rapidly deepening cyclones in midlatitudes are characterized by large cloud shields and abundant condensation qualitatively evident in infrared and visible satellite images. With the availability of passive microwave ... -
A Synoptic Climatological Approach to the Analysis of Lake-Effect Snowfall: Potential Forecasting Applications
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)Due to their mesoscale nature, forecasting lake-effect snowfall events is very difficult but extremely important to the inhabitants of those regions subject to this type of severe winter weather. Such is the case along the ... -
The Fargo Snowstorm of 6–8 January 1989
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)This paper documents the snowstorm that hit eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota during 6?8 January 1989. Fargo, North Dakota, set records for both the greatest 24-h snowfall and the greatest single-storm snowfall ... -
Jet Stream Winds: Comparisons of Aircraft Observations with Analyses
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)Wind measurements have been obtained from commercial aircraft crossing the 1992 winter subtropical jet streams over southwest and east Asia. Comparisons of these data with new, high-resolution analyses from four of the ... -
Specific Tropical Cyclone Track Types and Unusual Tropical Cyclone Motions Associated with a Reverse-Oriented Monsoon Trough in the Western North Pacific
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)In its simplest description, the large-scale low-level circulation of summer over the western North Pacific Ocean can be described in terms of low-latitude southwesterlies, a monsoon trough, and a subtropical ridge. When ... -
Artificial Skill and Validation in Meteorological Forecasting
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)The results of a simulation study of multiple regression prediction models for meteorological forecasting are reported. The effects of sample size, amount, and severity of nonrepresentative data in the population, inclusion ... -
An Evaluation of Environment Canada's Operational Ocean Wave Model Based on Moored Buoy Data
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)An operational ocean wave model called the Canadian Spectral Ocean Wave Model (CSOWM) has been implemented in the operational forecasting system of the Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment Canada, since early 1991. ... -
A WSR-88D Radar View of Tropical Cyclone Ed
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)The Guam WSR-88D (Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler) Doppler radar collected reflectivity, Doppler radial velocity, and other information for Supertyphoon Ed as it traversed the northern sections of Guam as a minimal ... -
Trajectory Optimization for Balloon Flight Planning
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)The recent solo transpacific balloon flight was used as a test case to evaluate multiple trajectory techniques to select different pathways based upon potential variations in balloon altitudes. Altitude changes between 3 ... -
Gridpoint Predictions of High Temperature from a Mesoscale Model
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)Mesoscale model gridpoint temperature data from simulations in the southwestern United States during the summer of 1990 are compared with both observations and statistical guidance from large-scale models over a 32-day ... -
The 13 March 1993 Severe Squall Line over Western Cuba
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)On 13 March 1993 a powerful prefontal squall line hit western and central Cuba. At 0000 UTC, a fast-developing extratropical cyclone with a well-defined cold front was located in the northeast Gulf of Mexico. Over the ... -
A Case Study of the 9 August 1988 South Atlantic Storm: Numerical Simulations of the Wave Activity
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)During 9?11 August 1988, a cyclone developed over Uruguay in the Ice of the Andes Mountains and moved over the South Atlantic Ocean, where it redeveloped into an intense storm. This storm was responsible for unusual wave ... -
An Intercomparison of Mesoscale Forecasts of Aircraft Icing Using SSM/I Retrievals
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)A technique for the detection of supercooled liquid water (SLW) from Special Sensor Microwave/ (SSM/I) data is discussed. For this study, these SLW retrievals depict areas of icing that are used to compare against different ... -
Monitoring the Performance of the ECMWF Operational Analysis Using the Enhanced TOGA COARE Observational Network
(American Meteorological Society, 1996)An enhanced atmospheric monitoring effort has been set up during the Intensive Observation Period (IOP) of the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE), devoted to better describe the ocean-atmosphere system ...