Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Polar Low Workshop 

      Heinemann, Günther; Claud, Chantal; Spengler, Thomas (American Meteorological Society, 2018)

    • The Arctic Cloud Puzzle: Using ACLOUD/PASCAL Multiplatform Observations to Unravel the Role of Clouds and Aerosol Particles in Arctic Amplification 

      Wendisch, Manfred; Macke, Andreas; Ehrlich, André; Lüpkes, Christof; Mech, Mario; Chechin, Dmitry; Dethloff, Klaus; Velasco, Carola Barrientos; Bozem, Heiko; Brückner, Marlen; Clemen, Hans-Christian; Crewell, Susanne; Donth, Tobias; Dupuy, Regis; Ebell, K (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractClouds play an important role in Arctic amplification. This term represents the recently observed enhanced warming of the Arctic relative to the global increase of near-surface air temperature. However, there are ...

    • Dynamics and Predictability of El Niño–Southern Oscillation: An Australian Perspective on Progress and Challenges 

      Santoso, Agus; Hendon, Harry; Watkins, Andrew; Power, Scott; Dommenget, Dietmar; England, Matthew H.; Frankcombe, Leela; Holbrook, Neil J.; Holmes, Ryan; Hope, Pandora; Lim, Eun-Pa; Luo, Jing-Jia; McGregor, Shayne; Neske, Sonja; Nguyen, Hanh; Pepler, Acac (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractEl Niño and La Niña, the warm and cold phases of El Niño?Southern Oscillation (ENSO), cause significant year-to-year disruptions in global climate, including in the atmosphere, oceans, and cryosphere. Australia is ...

    • CHOCO-JEX: A Research Experiment Focused on the Chocó Low-Level Jet over the Far Eastern Pacific and Western Colombia 

      Yepes, Johanna; Poveda, Germán; Mejía, John F.; Moreno, Leonardo; Rueda, Carolina (American Meteorological Society, 2019)
      AbstractThe ChocoJet Experiment (CHOCO-JEX) is an interinstitutional research program developed by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, the General Maritime Directorate of the Ministry of National Defense of Colombia, the ...

    • ECMWF Activities for Improved Hurricane Forecasts 

      Magnusson, L.; Bidlot, J.-R.; Bonavita, M.; Brown, A. R.; Browne, P. A.; De Chiara, G.; Dahoui, M.; Lang, S. T. K.; McNally, T.; Mogensen, K. S.; Pappenberger, F.; Prates, F.; Rabier, F.; Richardson, D. S.; Vitart, F.; Malardel, S. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractTropical cyclones are some of the most devastating natural hazards and the ?three beasts??Harvey, Irma, and Maria?during the Atlantic hurricane season 2017 are recent examples. The European Centre for Medium-Range ...

    • PostProcessing and Visualization Techniques for Convection-Allowing Ensembles 

      Roberts, Brett; Jirak, Israel L.; Clark, Adam J.; Weiss, Steven J.; Kain, John S. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractSince the early 2000s, growing computing resources for numerical weather prediction (NWP) and scientific advances enabled development and testing of experimental, real-time deterministic convection-allowing models ...

    • The Northern California Wildfires of 8–9 October 2017: The Role of a Major Downslope Wind Event 

      Mass, Clifford F.; Ovens, David (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractA series of large wildfires began over the terrain north of San Francisco, California, during the evening of 8 October 2017 and spread across nearly 250,000 acres, including areas near the towns of Santa Rosa and ...

    • Hydroclimate Variability in Snow-Fed River Systems: Local Water Managers’ Perspectives on Adapting to the New Normal 

      Sterle, Kelley; Hatchett, Benjamin J.; Singletary, Loretta; Pohll, Greg (American Meteorological Society, 2019)
      AbstractBetween water years 2012 and 2017, the Truckee?Carson river system in the western United States experienced both historic-low and record-high Sierra Nevada snowpack, anomalously warm temperatures, and winter and ...

    • Overview of the HI-SCALE Field Campaign: A New Perspective on Shallow Convective Clouds 

      Fast, Jerome D.; Berg, Larry K.; Alexander, Lizbeth; Bell, David; D’Ambro, Emma; Hubbe, John; Kuang, Chongai; Liu, Jiumeng; Long, Chuck; Matthews, Alyssa; Mei, Fan; Newsom, Rob; Pekour, Mikhail; Pinterich, Tamara; Schmid, Beat; Schobesberger, Siegfried; S (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractShallow convective clouds are common, occurring over many areas of the world, and are an important component in the atmospheric radiation budget. In addition to synoptic and mesoscale meteorological conditions, ...

    • The Ozone Water–Land Environmental Transition Study: An Innovative Strategy for Understanding Chesapeake Bay Pollution Events 

      Sullivan, John T.; Berkoff, Timothy; Gronoff, Guillaume; Knepp, Travis; Pippin, Margaret; Allen, Danette; Twigg, Laurence; Swap, Robert; Tzortziou, Maria; Thompson, Anne M.; Stauffer, Ryan M.; Wolfe, Glenn M.; Flynn, James; Pusede, Sally E.; Judd, Laura M (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractCoastal regions have historically represented a significant challenge for air quality investigations because of water?land boundary transition characteristics and a paucity of measurements available over water. ...

    • A Scale to Characterize the Strength and Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers 

      Ralph, F. Martin; Rutz, Jonathan J.; Cordeira, Jason M.; Dettinger, Michael; Anderson, Michael; Reynolds, David; Schick, Lawrence J.; Smallcomb, Chris (American Meteorological Society, 2019)
      AbstractAtmospheric rivers (ARs) play vital roles in the western United States and related regions globally, not only producing heavy precipitation and flooding, but also providing beneficial water supply. This paper ...

    • Seeing Weather Through Chaos: A Case Study of Disembedding Skills in Undergraduate Meteorology Students 

      McNeal, Peggy; Petcovic, Heather; Bals-Elsholz, Teresa; Ellis, Todd (American Meteorological Society, 2019)
      AbstractDisembedding, or recognizing patterns in a distracting background, is a spatial thinking skill that is particularly relevant to the interpretation of meteorological surface and upper-air maps. Difficulty ?seeing? ...

    • A Call for the Evaluation of Web-Based Climate Data and Analysis Tools 

      VanderMolen, Kristin; Wall, Tamara U.; Daudert, Britta (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractResearchers are producing an ever greater number of web-based climate data and analysis tools in support of natural resource research and management. Yet the apparent absence or underreporting of evaluation in the ...

    • Modeling of Cloud Microphysics: Can We Do Better? 

      Grabowski, Wojciech W.; Morrison, Hugh; Shima, Shin-Ichiro; Abade, Gustavo C.; Dziekan, Piotr; Pawlowska, Hanna (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractRepresentation of cloud microphysics is a key aspect of simulating clouds. From the early days of cloud modeling, numerical models have relied on an Eulerian approach for all cloud and thermodynamic and microphysics ...

    • A New Perspective on Coastally Trapped Disturbances Using Data from the Satellite Era 

      Juliano, Timothy W.; Lebo, Zachary J.; Thompson, Gregory; Rahn, David A. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractThe ability of global climate models to simulate accurately marine stratiform clouds continues to challenge the atmospheric science community. These cloud types, which account for a large uncertainty in Earth?s ...

    • Improving Climate Change Literacy and Promoting Outreach in an Undergraduate Atmospheric Sciences Program 

      Hanrahan, Janel; Shafer, Jason (American Meteorological Society, 2019)
      AbstractMitigation of human-caused climate change is essential to lessen the extent of future negative impacts, but many people are not aware of the urgency of the situation. For meaningful climate change action to be ...

    • Measuring ARTSE2017: Results from Wyoming and New York 

      Fowler, Jennifer; Wang, Junhong; Ross, Deborah; Colligan, Thomas; Godfrey, Jaxen (American Meteorological Society, 2019)
      AbstractThe 21 August 2017 total solar eclipse was the first total eclipse on the mainland of the United States since 1979. The Atmospheric Responses of 2017 Total Solar Eclipse (ARTSE2017) project was created to observe ...

    • 100 Years Later: Reflecting on Alfred Wegener’s Contributions to Tornado Research in Europe 

      Antonescu, Bogdan; Ricketts, Hugo M. A. M.; Schultz, David M. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractAlfred Wegener (1880?1930) was a leading geophysicist, atmospheric scientist, and an Arctic explorer who is mainly remembered today for his contributions to the theory of continental drift. Less well known are his ...

    • NCAR’s Real-Time Convection-Allowing Ensemble Project 

      Schwartz, Craig S.; Romine, Glen S.; Sobash, Ryan A.; Fossell, Kathryn R.; Weisman, Morris L. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractBeginning 7 April 2015, scientists at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) began producing daily, real-time, experimental, 10-member ensemble forecasts with 3-km horizontal grid spacing across ...

    • How I Learned to Love Normal-Mode Rossby–Haurwitz Waves 

      Madden, Roland A. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractSeveral important developments in the 1960s showed the way to using spectral analysis to identify and describe atmospheric waves predicted by theory. Among these waves were normal-mode Rossby?Haurwitz waves (NMRHWs). ...