Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • The Aerosols, Radiation and Clouds in Southern Africa Field Campaign in Namibia: Overview, Illustrative Observations, and Way Forward 

      Formenti, Paola; D’Anna, Barbara; Flamant, Cyrille; Mallet, Marc; Piketh, Stuart John; Schepanski, Kerstin; Waquet, Fabien; Auriol, Frédérique; Brogniez, Gerard; Burnet, Frédéric; Chaboureau, Jean-Pierre; Chauvigné, Aurélien; Chazette, Patrick; Denjean, C (American Meteorological Society, 2019)
      AbstractThe Aerosol, Radiation and Clouds in southern Africa (AEROCLO-sA) project investigates the role of aerosols on the regional climate of southern Africa. This is a unique environment where natural and anthropogenic ...

    • Bore-ing into Nocturnal Convection 

      Haghi, Kevin R.; Geerts, Bart; Chipilski, Hristo G.; Johnson, Aaron; Degelia, Samuel; Imy, David; Parsons, David B.; Adams-Selin, Rebecca D.; Turner, David D.; Wang, Xuguang (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractThere has been a recent wave of attention given to atmospheric bores in order to understand how they evolve and initiate and maintain convection during the night. This surge is attributable to data collected during ...

    • Toward Convective-Scale Prediction within the Next Generation Global Prediction System 

      Zhou, Linjiong; Lin, Shian-Jiann; Chen, Jan-Huey; Harris, Lucas M.; Chen, Xi; Rees, Shannon L. (American Meteorological Society, 2019)
      AbstractThe Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) has developed a new variable-resolution global model with the ability to represent convective-scale features that serves as a prototype of the Next Generation Global ...

    • Observing Hurricane Harvey’s Eyewall at Landfall 

      Fernández-Cabán, Pedro L.; Alford, A. Addison; Bell, Martin J.; Biggerstaff, Michael I.; Carrie, Gordon D.; Hirth, Brian; Kosiba, Karen; Phillips, Brian M.; Schroeder, John L.; Waugh, Sean M.; Williford, Eric; Wurman, Joshua; Masters, Forrest J. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractWhile Hurricane Harvey will best be remembered for record rainfall that led to widespread flooding in southeastern Texas and western Louisiana, the storm also produced some of the most extreme wind speeds ever to ...

    • Recognizing the Famine Early Warning Systems Network: Over 30 Years of Drought Early Warning Science Advances and Partnerships Promoting Global Food Security 

      Funk, Chris; Shukla, Shraddhanand; Thiaw, Wassila Mamadou; Rowland, James; Hoell, Andrew; McNally, Amy; Husak, Gregory; Novella, Nicholas; Budde, Michael; Peters-Lidard, Christa; Adoum, Aklhalil; Galu, Gideon; Korecha, Diriba; Magadzire, Tamuka; Rodriguez (American Meteorological Society, 2019)
      AbstractOn a planet with a population of more than 7 billion, how do we identify the millions of drought-afflicted people who face a real threat of livelihood disruption or death without humanitarian assistance? Typically, ...

    • How Can Existing Ground-Based Profiling Instruments Improve European Weather Forecasts? 

      Illingworth, A. J.; Cimini, D.; Haefele, A.; Haeffelin, M.; Hervo, M.; Kotthaus, S.; Löhnert, U.; Martinet, P.; Mattis, I.; O’Connor, E. J.; Potthast, R. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractTo realize the promise of improved predictions of hazardous weather such as flash floods, wind storms, fog, and poor air quality from high-resolution mesoscale models, the forecast models must be initialized with ...

    • The Perdigão: Peering into Microscale Details of Mountain Winds 

      Fernando, H. J. S.; Mann, J.; Palma, J. M. L. M.; Lundquist, J. K.; Barthelmie, R. J.; Belo-Pereira, M.; Brown, W. O. J.; Chow, F. K.; Gerz, T.; Hocut, C. M.; Klein, P. M.; Leo, L. S.; Matos, J. C.; Oncley, S. P.; Pryor, S. C.; Bariteau, L.; Bell, T. M. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractA grand challenge from the wind energy industry is to provide reliable forecasts on mountain winds several hours in advance at microscale (?100 m) resolution. This requires better microscale wind-energy physics ...

    • Is Precipitation a Good Metric for Model Performance? 

      Tapiador, Francisco J.; Roca, Rémy; Del Genio, Anthony; Dewitte, Boris; Petersen, Walt; Zhang, Fuqing (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractPrecipitation has often been used to gauge the performances of numerical weather and climate models, sometimes together with other variables such as temperature, humidity, geopotential, and clouds. Precipitation, ...

    • Partnering Research, Education, and Operations via a Cool Season Severe Weather Soundings Program 

      Sherburn, Keith D.; Parker, Matthew D.; Davenport, Casey E.; Sirico, Richard A.; Blaes, Jonathan L.; Black, Brandon; McLamb, Shaelyn E.; Mugrage, Michael C.; Rackliffe, Ryan M. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractRecent research has improved our knowledge and forecasting of high-shear, low-CAPE (HSLC) severe convection, which produces a large fraction of overnight and cool season tornadoes. However, limited near-storm ...

    • An Educational Deployment of the NCAR Mobile Integrated Sounding System 

      Billings, Brian; Cohn, Stephen A.; Kubesh, Rodney J.; Brown, William O. J. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractThe best way to train the next wave of observational talent is through direct experience. In 2012 and again in 2014, students at St. Cloud State University (SCSU) welcomed deployments of professional atmospheric ...

    • Tornado Debris from the 23 May 2017 “Tybee Tornado” 

      Black, Alan W.; Knox, John A.; Rackley, Jared A.; Grondin, Nicholas S. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractWe examine the trajectories of four historical markers displaced during an enhanced Fujita scale 2 (EF2) tornado at the Fort Pulaski National Monument located on Cockspur Island, east of Savannah in southeast ...

    • MSWEP V2 Global 3-Hourly 0.1° Precipitation: Methodology and Quantitative Assessment 

      Beck, Hylke E.; Wood, Eric F.; Pan, Ming; Fisher, Colby K.; Miralles, Diego G.; van Dijk, Albert I. J. M.; McVicar, Tim R.; Adler, Robert F. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractWe present Multi-Source Weighted-Ensemble Precipitation, version 2 (MSWEP V2), a gridded precipitation P dataset spanning 1979?2017. MSWEP V2 is unique in several aspects: i) full global coverage (all land and ...

    • Scientific Writing: The Predicament of Weather and Climate Scientists in India 

      Rajput, Abhay S. D. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractWhile writing is integral to science, it gets little attention in formal science education/academics. Such neglect has serious implications for nonnative English-speaking (NNES) scientists. An inability to write ...

    • Recent Third Pole’s Rapid Warming Accompanies Cryospheric Melt and Water Cycle Intensification and Interactions between Monsoon and Environment: Multidisciplinary Approach with Observations, Modeling, and Analysis 

      Yao, Tandong; Xue, Yongkang; Chen, Deliang; Chen, Fahu; Thompson, Lonnie; Cui, Peng; Koike, Toshio; Lau, William K.-M.; Lettenmaier, Dennis; Mosbrugger, Volker; Zhang, Renhe; Xu, Baiqing; Dozier, Jeff; Gillespie, Thomas; Gu, Yu; Kang, Shichang; Piao, Shil (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractThe Third Pole (TP) is experiencing rapid warming and is currently in its warmest period in the past 2,000 years. This paper reviews the latest development in multidisciplinary TP research associated with this ...

    • Education Backgrounds of TV Weathercasters 

      Green, Thomas A.; Schreck, Carl J.; Johnson, Nathan S.; Heath, Sonya Stevens (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractIn the early days of television, most weathercasters lacked formal training in meteorology and instead relied on forecasts from other sources. Over the decades, degreed meteorologists became more common. A third ...

    • A Stochastic Representation of Subgrid Uncertainty for Dynamical Core Development 

      Subramanian, Aneesh; Juricke, Stephan; Dueben, Peter; Palmer, Tim (American Meteorological Society, 2019)
      AbstractNumerical weather prediction and climate models comprise a) a dynamical core describing resolved parts of the climate system and b) parameterizations describing unresolved components. Development of new subgrid-scale ...

    • Mechanisms and Early Warning of Drought Disasters: Experimental Drought Meteorology Research over China 

      Li, Yaohui; Yuan, Xing; Zhang, Hongsheng; Wang, Runyuan; Wang, Chenghai; Meng, Xianhong; Zhang, Zhiqiang; Wang, Shanshan; Yang, Yang; Han, Bo; Zhang, Kai; Wang, Xiaoping; Zhao, Hong; Zhou, Guangsheng; Zhang, Qiang; He, Qing; Guo, Ni; Hou, Wei; Zhang, Cunj (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractA major experimental drought research project entitled ?Mechanisms and Early Warning of Drought Disasters over Northern China? (DroughtEX_China) was launched by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China in ...

    • CHAT: The Colorado Hail Accumulation from Thunderstorms Project 

      Friedrich, Katja; Wallace, Robinson; Meier, Bernard; Rydell, Nezette; Deierling, Wiebke; Kalina, Evan; Motta, Brian; Schlatter, Paul; Schlatter, Thomas; Doesken, Nolan (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractIn recent years, hail accumulations from thunderstorms have occurred frequently enough to catch the attention of the National Weather Service, the general public, and news agencies. Despite the extreme nature of ...

    • The Climate Resilient Grid Forum 

      McGuirk, Marjorie; Herring, Stephanie C.; Dissen, Jenny (American Meteorological Society, 2018)

    • Actuaries are Paying Attention to Climate Data 

      Owen, Rebecca (American Meteorological Society, 2019)