Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions
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Our Skill in Modeling Mountain Rain and Snow is Bypassing the Skill of Our Observational Networks
(American Meteorological Society, 2020)In mountain terrain, well-configured high-resolution atmospheric models are able to simulate total annual rain and snowfall better than spatial estimates derived from in situ observational networks of precipitation gauges, ... -
The Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) product suite
(American Meteorological Society, 2020)Overview of the 12 Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) products that encompass surface radiation and vegetation variables with long-term time series (from 1981 or 2000 to the present), high resolutions (500 m, 1 km and ... -
CALENDAR OF MEETINGS
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Introduction to the National Aerosol Chemical Composition Monitoring Network of China: Objectives, Current Status, and Outlook
(American Meteorological Society, 2020)The North China Plain (NCP) is becoming one of the most polluted areas characterized by a high frequency of haze pollution. However, the spatial and temporal evolutions of aerosol chemical compositions in such a highly ... -
Leveraging Modern Artificial Intelligence for Remote Sensing and NWP: Benefits and Challenges
(American Meteorological Society, 2020)Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have had significant recent successes in multiple fields. These fields and the fields of satellite remote sensing and NWP share the same fundamental underlying needs, including signal ... -
Extratropical–Tropical Interaction Model Intercomparison Project (Etin-Mip): Protocol and Initial Results
(American Meteorological Society, 2020)This article introduces the Extratropical–Tropical Interaction Model Intercomparison Project (ETIN-MIP), where a set of fully coupled model experiments are designed to examine the sources of longstanding tropical precipitation ... -
Enhancing ACIS Maps: Increasing Usability through a GIS Portal
(American Meteorological Society, 2020)Since 2003, the High Plains Regional Climate Center (HPRCC) has been producing the Applied Climate Information System (ACIS) Climate Summary Maps for users all across the country. The maps allow users to quickly and easily ... -
The COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 Radio Occultation Mission after 12 Years: Accomplishments, Remaining Challenges, and Potential Impacts of COSMIC-2
(American Meteorological Society, 2020)Launched in 2006, the Formosa Satellite Mission 3–Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate (FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC) was the first constellation of microsatellites carrying global positioning system ... -
A Workshop on North American Hail and Hailstorms: What Next?
(American Meteorological Society, 2020)Hailstorms have caused over $10 billion in damage for each of the last 11 years, according to insurance industry estimates. From 1960 through the early 1980s considerable research was conducted on hail and hailstorms. The ... -
FLUXNET-CH4 Synthesis Activity: Objectives, Observations, and Future Directions
(American Meteorological Society, 2020)This paper describes the formation of, and initial results for, a new FLUXNET coordination network for ecosystem-scale methane (CH4) measurements at 60 sites globally, organized by the Global Carbon Project in partnership ... -
Is a Consistent Message Achievable? Defining ‘Message Consistency’ for Weather Enterprise Researchers and Practitioners
(American Meteorological Society, 2020)This paper combines the needs of operational meteorologists with insights from social science research to offer a definition of message consistency for weather enterprise researchers and practitioners.Although both research ... -
Landfalling Tropical Cyclone Research Project (LTCRP) in China
(American Meteorological Society, 2020)Landfalling tropical cyclones (TCs) often experience drastic changes in their motion, intensity, and structure due to complex multiscale interactions among atmospheric processes and among the coastal ocean, land, and ... -
Initial Development and Testing of a Convection-Allowing Model Scorecard
(American Meteorological Society, 2020)Evaluation of numerical weather prediction (NWP) is critical for both forecasters and researchers. Through such evaluation, forecasters can understand the strengths and weaknesses of NWP guidance, and researchers can work ... -
LETTER FROM HEADQUARTERS, STUDENTS, ABOUT OUR MEMBERS, MEET THE AMS, AMS STATEMENT, LIVING ON THE REAL WORLD
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Wind profile satellite observation requirements and capabilities
(American Meteorological Society, 2020)The manuscript addresses the need for tropospheric and stratospheric wind profiles and discusses capabilities to fulfil such need. To follow up the Aeolus mission an international operational UV Doppler Wind Lidar constellation ... -
POLSTRACC: Airborne Experiment for Studying the Polar Stratosphere in a Changing Climate with the High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft (HALO)
(American Meteorological Society, 2020)The Polar Stratosphere in a Changing Climate (POLSTRACC) mission employed the German High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft (HALO). The payload comprised an innovative combination of remote sensing and in situ ... -
Impact-Based Decision Support Services and the Socioeconomic Impacts of Winter Storms
(American Meteorological Society, 2020)As part of its strategic plan for Building a Weather-Ready Nation, the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) has increased their efforts to provide decision support services connecting forecasts and warnings to decision-making ... -
Probing the Fog Life Cycles in the Namib Desert
(American Meteorological Society, 2020)An intensive observation period was conducted in September 2017 in the central Namib, Namibia, as part of the project Namib Fog Life Cycle Analysis (NaFoLiCA). The purpose of the field campaign was to investigate the spatial ... -
Radar Detection of Individual Raindrops
(American Meteorological Society, 2020)Descriptions of the experimental design and research highlights obtained from a series of four multiagency field projects held near Cape Canaveral, Florida, are presented. The experiments featured a 3 MW, dual-polarization, ... -
On Bridging A Modeling Scale Gap: Mesoscale to Microscale Coupling for Wind Energy
(American Meteorological Society, 2020)Accurately representing flow across the mesoscale to the microscale is a persistent roadblock for completing realistic microscale simulations. The science challenges that must be addressed to coupling at these scales include ...