Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Results of the First Arctic Heat Open Science Experiment 

      Wood, Kevin R.; Jayne, Steven R.; Mordy, Calvin W.; Bond, Nicholas; Overland, James E.; Ladd, Carol; Stabeno, Phyllis J.; Ekholm, Alexander K.; Robbins, Pelle E.; Schreck, Mary-Beth; Heim, Rebecca; Intrieri, Janet (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractSeasonally ice-covered marginal seas are among the most difficult regions in the Arctic to study. Physical constraints imposed by the variable presence of sea ice in all stages of growth and melt make the upper ...

    • 27 Years of Regional Cooperation for Limited Area Modelling in Central Europe 

      Wang, Yong; Belluš, Martin; Ehrlich, Andrea; Mile, Máté; Pristov, Neva; Smolíková, Petra; Španiel, Oldřich; Trojáková, Alena; Brožková, Radmila; Cedilnik, Jure; Klarić, Dijana; Kovačić, Tomislav; Mašek, Ján; Meier, Florian; Szintai, Balázs; Tascu, Simona; Vivoda, Jozef; Wastl, Clemens; Wittmann, Christoph (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractThis paper describes 27 years of scientific and operational achievement of Regional Cooperation for Limited Area Modelling in Central Europe (RC LACE), which is supported by the national (hydro-) meteorological ...

    • Women Weathercasters: Their Positions, Education, and Presence in Local TV 

      Cranford, Alexandra (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractData on weathercasters at local television stations in all 210 markets in the United States were gathered through individual weathercaster biography web pages provided on television news station websites. The ...

    • Evaluating and Improving NWP Forecast Models for the Future: How the Needs of Offshore Wind Energy Can Point the Way 

      Banta, Robert M.; Pichugina, Yelena L.; Brewer, W. Alan; James, Eric P.; Olson, Joseph B.; Benjamin, Stanley G.; Carley, Jacob R.; Bianco, Laura; Djalalova, Irina V.; Wilczak, James M.; Hardesty, R. Michael; Cline, Joel; Marquis, Melinda C. (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractTo advance the understanding of meteorological processes in offshore coastal regions, the spatial variability of wind profiles must be characterized and uncertainties (errors) in NWP model wind forecasts quantified. ...

    • The Community Leveraged Unified Ensemble (CLUE) in the 2016 NOAA/Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Forecasting Experiment 

      Clark, Adam J.; Jirak, Israel L.; Dembek, Scott R.; Creager, Gerry J.; Kong, Fanyou; Thomas, Kevin W.; Knopfmeier, Kent H.; Gallo, Burkely T.; Melick, Christopher J.; Xue, Ming; Brewster, Keith A.; Jung, Youngsun; Kennedy, Aaron; Dong, Xiquan; Markel, Joshua; Gilmore, Matthew; Romine, Glen S.; Fossell, Kathryn R.; Sobash, Ryan A.; Carley, Jacob R.; Ferrier, Brad S.; Pyle, Matthew; Alexander, Curtis R.; Weiss, Steven J.; Kain, John S.; Wicker, Louis J.; Thompson, Gregory; Adams-Selin, Rebecca D.; Imy, David A. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractOne primary goal of annual Spring Forecasting Experiments (SFEs), which are coorganized by NOAA?s National Severe Storms Laboratory and Storm Prediction Center and conducted in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

    • Reservoir Evaporation in the Western United States: Current Science, Challenges, and Future Needs 

      Friedrich, Katja; Grossman, Robert L.; Huntington, Justin; Blanken, Peter D.; Lenters, John; Holman, Kathleen D.; Gochis, David; Livneh, Ben; Prairie, James; Skeie, Erik; Healey, Nathan C.; Dahm, Katharine; Pearson, Christopher; Finnessey, Taryn; Hook, Simon J.; Kowalski, Ted (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractOne way to adapt to and mitigate current and future water scarcity is to manage and store water more efficiently. Reservoirs act as critical buffers to ensure agricultural and municipal water deliveries, mitigate ...

    • Bridging Operational Meteorology and Academia through Experiential Education: The Storm Prediction Center in the University of Oklahoma Classroom 

      Cohen, Ariel E.; Thompson, Richard L.; Cavallo, Steven M.; Edwards, Roger; Weiss, Steven J.; Hart, John A.; Jirak, Israel L.; Bunting, William F.; Rogers, Jaret W.; Piltz, Steven F.; Gerard, Alan E.; Moore, Andrew D.; Cornish, Daniel J.; Boothe, Alexander C.; Cohen, Joel B. (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractDuring the 2014?15 academic year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center (SPC) and the University of Oklahoma (OU) School of Meteorology jointly ...

    • PM2.5 Pollution in China and How It Has Been Exacerbated by Terrain and Meteorological Conditions 

      Wang, Xiaoyan; Dickinson, Robert E.; Su, Liangyuan; Zhou, Chunlüe; Wang, Kaicun (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractThe recent severe and frequent PM2.5 (i.e., fine particles smaller than 2.5 µm) pollution in China has aroused unprecedented public concern. The first two years of PM2.5 measurements in China are reported and ...

    • LANFEX: A Field and Modeling Study to Improve Our Understanding and Forecasting of Radiation Fog 

      Price, J. D.; Lane, S.; Boutle, I. A.; Smith, D. K. E.; Bergot, T.; Lac, C.; Duconge, L.; McGregor, J.; Kerr-Munslow, A.; Pickering, M.; Clark, R. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractFog is a high-impact weather phenomenon affecting human activity, including aviation, transport, and health. Its prediction is a longstanding issue for weather forecast models. The success of a forecast depends on ...

    • Satellite-Based Atmospheric Infrared Sounder Development and Applications 

      Menzel, W. Paul; Schmit, Timothy J.; Zhang, Peng; Li, Jun (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractAtmospheric sounding of the vertical changes in temperature and moisture is one of the key contributions from meteorological satellites. The concept of using satellite infrared radiation observations for retrieving ...

    • Coordinated Upper-Troposphere-to-Stratosphere Balloon Experiment in Biak 

      Hasebe, F.; Aoki, S.; Morimoto, S.; Inai, Y.; Nakazawa, T.; Sugawara, S.; Ikeda, C.; Honda, H.; Yamazaki, H.; Halimurrahman; Komala, N.; Putri, F. A.; Budiyono, A.; Soedjarwo, M.; Ishidoya, S.; Toyoda, S.; Shibata, T.; Hayashi, M.; Eguchi, N.; Nishi, N.; Fujiwara, M.; Ogino, S.-Y.; Shiotani, M.; Sugidachi, T. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractThe stratospheric response to climate forcing, such as an increase in greenhouse gases, is often unpredictable because of interactions between radiation, dynamics, and chemistry. Climate models are unsuccessful in ...

    • The ITCZ and the Seasonal Cycle over Equatorial Africa 

      Nicholson, Sharon E. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractThe common explanation for the progression of the rainy season over Africa is the seasonal excursion of the ITCZ. The ITCZ paradigm stems from a time when tropical rainfall was assumed to be associated mainly with ...

    • Decadal Climate Variability and Predictability: Challenges and Opportunities 

      Cassou, Christophe; Kushnir, Yochanan; Hawkins, Ed; Pirani, Anna; Kucharski, Fred; Kang, In-Sik; Caltabiano, Nico (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractThe study of Decadal Climate Variability (DCV) and Predictability is the interdisciplinary endeavor to characterize, understand, attribute, simulate, and predict the slow, multiyear variations of climate at global ...

    • The Harlem Heat Project: A Unique Media–Community Collaboration to Study Indoor Heat Waves 

      Vant-Hull, Brian; Ramamurthy, Prathap; Havlik, Brooke; Jusino, Carlos; Corbin-Mark, Cecil; Schuerman, Matthew; Keefe, John; Drapkin, Julia Kumari; Glenn, A. Adam (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractHeat waves killed more people in the United States than all other weather-related disasters combined over the last three decades. However, human?environment interactions during these episodic events are not well ...

    • Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and the U.K. ACSIS Program 

      Sutton, R. T.; McCarthy, G. D.; Robson, J.; Sinha, B.; Archibald, A. T.; Gray, L. J. (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractAtlantic multidecadal variability (AMV) is the term used to describe the pattern of variability in North Atlantic sea surface temperatures (SSTs) that is characterized by decades of basinwide warm or cool anomalies, ...

    • When during Their Life Cycle Are Extratropical Cyclones Attended by Fronts? 

      Schemm, Sebastian; Sprenger, Michael; Wernli, Heini (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractFor nearly a century, the study of atmospheric dynamics in the midlatitudes has presented dichotomic perspectives on one of its focal points: the birth and life cycle of cyclones. In particular, the role of fronts ...

    • More-Persistent Weak Stratospheric Polar Vortex States Linked to Cold Extremes 

      Kretschmer, Marlene; Coumou, Dim; Agel, Laurie; Barlow, Mathew; Tziperman, Eli; Cohen, Judah (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractThe extratropical stratosphere in boreal winter is characterized by a strong circumpolar westerly jet, confining the coldest temperatures at high latitudes. The jet, referred to as the stratospheric polar vortex, ...

    • The ARM Cloud Radar Simulator for Global Climate Models: Bridging Field Data and Climate Models 

      Zhang, Yuying; Xie, Shaocheng; Klein, Stephen A.; Marchand, Roger; Kollias, Pavlos; Clothiaux, Eugene E.; Lin, Wuyin; Johnson, Karen; Swales, Dustin; Bodas-Salcedo, Alejandro; Tang, Shuaiqi; Haynes, John M.; Collis, Scott; Jensen, Michael; Bharadwaj, Nitin; Hardin, Joseph; Isom, Bradley (American Meteorological Society, 2017)

    • The Dynamics–Aerosol–Chemistry–Cloud Interactions in West Africa Field Campaign: Overview and Research Highlights 

      Flamant, C.; Knippertz, P.; Fink, A. H.; Akpo, A.; Brooks, B.; Chiu, C. J.; Coe, H.; Danuor, S.; Evans, M.; Jegede, O.; Kalthoff, N.; Konaré, A.; Liousse, C.; Lohou, F.; Mari, C.; Schlager, H.; Schwarzenboeck, A.; Adler, B.; Amekudzi, L.; Aryee, J.; Ayoola, M.; Batenburg, A. M.; Bessardon, G.; Borrmann, S.; Brito, J.; Bower, K.; Burnet, F.; Catoire, V.; Colomb, A.; Denjean, C.; Fosu-Amankwah, K.; Hill, P. G.; Lee, J.; Lothon, M.; Maranan, M.; Marsham, J.; Meynadier, R.; Ngamini, J.-B.; Rosenberg, P.; Sauer, D.; Smith, V.; Stratmann, G.; Taylor, J. W.; Voigt, C.; Yoboué, V. (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractThe European Union (EU)-funded project Dynamics?Aerosol?Chemistry?Cloud Interactions in West Africa (DACCIWA) investigates the relationship between weather, climate, and air pollution in southern West Africa?an ...

    • The Nexus between Sea Ice and Polar Emissions of Marine Biogenic Aerosols 

      Gabric, Albert; Matrai, Patricia; Jones, Graham; Middleton, Julia (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractAccurate estimation of the climate sensitivity requires a better understanding of the nexus between polar marine ecosystem responses to warming, changes in sea ice extent, and emissions of marine biogenic aerosol ...