Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Opportunities for Joint Water–Energy Management: Sensitivity of the 2010 Western U.S. Electricity Grid Operations to Climate Oscillations 

      Voisin, N.; Kintner-Meyer, M.; Wu, D.; Skaggs, R.; Fu, T.; Zhou, T.; Nguyen, T.; Kraucunas, I. (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractThe increasing interconnectedness of energy and water systems makes it important to understand how interannual variations in water availability?and climate oscillations?could potentially impact the electric grid ...

    • The Grape Remote Sensing Atmospheric Profile and Evapotranspiration Experiment 

      Kustas, William P.; Anderson, Martha C.; Alfieri, Joseph G.; Knipper, Kyle; Torres-Rua, Alfonso; Parry, Christopher K.; Nieto, Hector; Agam, Nurit; White, William A.; Gao, Feng; McKee, Lynn; Prueger, John H.; Hipps, Lawrence E.; Los, Sebastian; Alsina, Maria Mar; Sanchez, Luis; Sams, Brent; Dokoozlian, Nick; McKee, Mac; Jones, Scott; Yang, Yun; Wilson, Tiffany G.; Lei, Fangni; McElrone, Andrew; Heitman, Josh L.; Howard, Adam M.; Post, Kirk; Melton, Forrest; Hain, Christopher (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractParticularly in light of California?s recent multiyear drought, there is a critical need for accurate and timely evapotranspiration (ET) and crop stress information to ensure long-term sustainability of high-value ...

    • A Simple Pedagogical Model Linking Initial-Value Reliability with Trustworthiness in the Forced Climate Response 

      Palmer, T. N.; Weisheimer, A. (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractAlthough the development of seamless prediction systems is becoming increasingly common, there is still confusion regarding the relevance of information from initial-value forecasts for assessing the trustworthiness ...

    • WUDAPT: An Urban Weather, Climate, and Environmental Modeling Infrastructure for the Anthropocene 

      Ching, J.; Mills, G.; Bechtel, B.; See, L.; Feddema, J.; Wang, X.; Ren, C.; Brousse, O.; Martilli, A.; Neophytou, M.; Mouzourides, P.; Stewart, I.; Hanna, A.; Ng, E.; Foley, M.; Alexander, P.; Aliaga, D.; Niyogi, D.; Shreevastava, A.; Bhalachandran, P.; Masson, V.; Hidalgo, J.; Fung, J.; Andrade, M.; Baklanov, A.; Dai, W.; Milcinski, G.; Demuzere, M.; Brunsell, N.; Pesaresi, M.; Miao, S.; Mu, Q.; Chen, F.; Theeuwes, N. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractThe World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) is an international community-based initiative to acquire and disseminate climate relevant data on the physical geographies of cities for modeling and ...

    • BoBBLE: Ocean–Atmosphere Interaction and Its Impact on the South Asian Monsoon 

      Vinayachandran, P. N.; Matthews, Adrian J.; Kumar, K. Vijay; Sanchez-Franks, Alejandra; Thushara, V.; George, Jenson; Vijith, V.; Webber, Benjamin G. M.; Queste, Bastien Y.; Roy, Rajdeep; Sarkar, Amit; Baranowski, Dariusz B.; Bhat, G. S.; Klingaman, Nicholas P.; Peatman, Simon C.; Parida, C.; Heywood, Karen J.; Hall, Robert; King, Brian; Kent, Elizabeth C.; Nayak, Anoop A.; Neema, C. P.; Amol, P.; Lotliker, A.; Kankonkar, A.; Gracias, D. G.; Vernekar, S.; D’Souza, A. C.; Valluvan, G.; Pargaonkar, Shrikant M.; Dinesh, K.; Giddings, Jack; Joshi, Manoj (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractThe Bay of Bengal (BoB) plays a fundamental role in controlling the weather systems that make up the South Asian summer monsoon system. In particular, the southern BoB has cooler sea surface temperatures (SST) that ...

    • The GLAM Airborne Campaign across the Mediterranean Basin 

      Ricaud, Philippe; Zbinden, Régina; Catoire, Valéry; Brocchi, Vanessa; Dulac, François; Hamonou, Eric; Canonici, Jean-Christophe; El Amraoui, Laaziz; Massart, Sébastien; Piguet, Bruno; Dayan, Uri; Nabat, Pierre; Sciare, Jean; Ramonet, Michel; Delmotte, Marc; di Sarra, Alcide; Sferlazzo, Damiano; di Iorio, Tatiana; Piacentino, Salvatore; Cristofanelli, Paolo; Mihalopoulos, Nikos; Kouvarakis, Giorgos; Pikridas, Michael; Savvides, Chrysanthos; Mamouri, Rodanthi-Elisavet; Nisantzi, Argyro; Hadjimitsis, Diofantos; Attié, Jean-Luc; Ferré, Hélène; Kangah, Yannick; Jaidan, Nizar; Guth, Jonathan; Jacquet, Patrick; Chevrier, Stéphane; Robert, Claude; Bourdon, Aurélien; Bourdinot, Jean-François; Etienne, Jean-Claude; Krysztofiak, Gisèle; Theron, Pierre (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractThe Gradient in Longitude of Atmospheric Constituents above the Mediterranean Basin (GLAM) airborne campaign was set up to investigate the summertime variability of gaseous pollutants, greenhouse gases, and aerosols ...

    • Building the Sun4Cast System: Improvements in Solar Power Forecasting 

      Haupt, Sue Ellen; Kosović, Branko; Jensen, Tara; Lazo, Jeffrey K.; Lee, Jared A.; Jiménez, Pedro A.; Cowie, James; Wiener, Gerry; McCandless, Tyler C.; Rogers, Matthew; Miller, Steven; Sengupta, Manajit; Xie, Yu; Hinkelman, Laura; Kalb, Paul; Heiser, John (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractAs integration of solar power into the national electric grid rapidly increases, it becomes imperative to improve forecasting of this highly variable renewable resource. Thus, a team of researchers from the public, ...

    • Advancing Science and Services during the 2015/16 El Niño: The NOAA El Niño Rapid Response Field Campaign 

      Dole, Randall M.; Spackman, J. Ryan; Newman, Matthew; Compo, Gilbert P.; Smith, Catherine A.; Hartten, Leslie M.; Barsugli, Joseph J.; Webb, Robert S.; Hoerling, Martin P.; Cifelli, Robert; Wolter, Klaus; Barnet, Christopher D.; Gehne, Maria; Gelaro, Ronald; Kiladis, George N.; Abbott, Scott; Akish, Elena; Albers, John; Brown, John M.; Cox, Christopher J.; Darby, Lisa; de Boer, Gijs; DeLuisi, Barbara; Dias, Juliana; Dunion, Jason; Eischeid, Jon; Fairall, Christopher; Gambacorta, Antonia; Gorton, Brian K.; Hoell, Andrew; Intrieri, Janet; Jackson, Darren; Johnston, Paul E.; Lataitis, Richard; Mahoney, Kelly M.; McCaffrey, Katherine; McColl, H. Alex; Mueller, Michael J.; Murray, Donald; Neiman, Paul J.; Otto, William; Persson, Ola; Quan, Xiao-Wei; Rangwala, Imtiaz; Ray, Andrea J.; Reynolds, David; Dellaripa, Emily Riley; Rosenlof, Karen; Sakaeda, Naoko; Sardeshmukh, Prashant D.; Slivinski, Laura C.; Smith, Lesley; Solomon, Amy; Swales, Dustin; Tulich, Stefan; White, Allen; Wick, Gary; Winterkorn, Matthew G.; Wolfe, Daniel E.; Zamora, Robert (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractForecasts by mid-2015 for a strong El Niño during winter 2015/16 presented an exceptional scientific opportunity to accelerate advances in understanding and predictions of an extreme climate event and its impacts ...

    • The Arctic System Reanalysis, Version 2 

      Bromwich, D. H.; Wilson, A. B.; Bai, L.; Liu, Z.; Barlage, M.; Shih, C.-F.; Maldonado, S.; Hines, K. M.; Wang, S.-H.; Woollen, J.; Kuo, B.; Lin, H.-C.; Wee, T.-K.; Serreze, M. C.; Walsh, J. E. (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractThe Arctic is a vital component of the global climate, and its rapid environmental evolution is an important element of climate change around the world. To detect and diagnose the changes occurring to the coupled ...

    • Supporting Weather Forecasters in Predicting and Monitoring Saharan Air Layer Dust Events as They Impact the Greater Caribbean 

      Kuciauskas, Arunas P.; Xian, Peng; Hyer, Edward J.; Oyola, Mayra I.; Campbell, James R. (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractDuring the spring and summer months, the greater Caribbean region typically experiences pulses of moderate to heavy episodes of airborne African dust concentrations that originate over the Sahara Desert and propagate ...

    • The O2/N2 Ratio and CO2 Airborne Southern Ocean Study 

      Stephens, Britton B.; Long, Matthew C.; Keeling, Ralph F.; Kort, Eric A.; Sweeney, Colm; Apel, Eric C.; Atlas, Elliot L.; Beaton, Stuart; Bent, Jonathan D.; Blake, Nicola J.; Bresch, James F.; Casey, Joanna; Daube, Bruce C.; Diao, Minghui; Diaz, Ernesto; Dierssen, Heidi; Donets, Valeria; Gao, Bo-Cai; Gierach, Michelle; Green, Robert; Haag, Justin; Hayman, Matthew; Hills, Alan J.; Hoecker-Martínez, Martín S.; Honomichl, Shawn B.; Hornbrook, Rebecca S.; Jensen, Jorgen B.; Li, Rong-Rong; McCubbin, Ian; McKain, Kathryn; Morgan, Eric J.; Nolte, Scott; Powers, Jordan G.; Rainwater, Bryan; Randolph, Kaylan; Reeves, Mike; Schauffler, Sue M.; Smith, Katherine; Smith, Mackenzie; Stith, Jeff; Stossmeister, Gregory; Toohey, Darin W.; Watt, Andrew S. (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractThe Southern Ocean plays a critical role in the global climate system by mediating atmosphere?ocean partitioning of heat and carbon dioxide. However, Earth system models are demonstrably deficient in the Southern ...

    • Avian Sensor Packages for Meteorological Measurements 

      Thomas, Rick M.; MacKenzie, A. Rob; Reynolds, S. James; Sadler, Jonathan P.; Cropley, Ford; Bell, Simon; Dugdale, Stephen J.; Chapman, Lee; Quinn, Andrew; Cai, Xiaoming (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractThe increasing miniaturization of accurate, reliable meteorological sensors and logging systems allows the deployment of sensor packages on lightweight airborne platforms. Here, we demonstrate the safe and humane ...

    • SURF: Understanding and Predicting Urban Convection and Haze 

      Liang, X.; Miao, S.; Li, J.; Bornstein, R.; Zhang, X.; Gao, Y.; Chen, F.; Cao, X.; Cheng, Z.; Clements, C.; Dabberdt, W.; Ding, A.; Ding, D.; Dou, J. J.; Dou, J. X.; Dou, Y.; Grimmond, C. S. B.; González-Cruz, J. E.; He, J.; Huang, M.; Huang, X.; Ju, S.; Li, Q.; Niyogi, D.; Quan, J.; Sun, J.; Sun, J. Z.; Yu, M.; Zhang, J.; Zhang, Y.; Zhao, X.; Zheng, Z.; Zhou, M. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      AbstractUrbanization modifies atmospheric energy and moisture balances, forming distinct features [e.g., urban heat islands (UHIs) and enhanced or decreased precipitation]. These produce significant challenges to science ...

    • The Environment Canada Pan and Parapan American Science Showcase Project 

      Joe, P.; Belair, S.; Bernier, N.B.; Bouchet, V.; Brook, J. R.; Brunet, D.; Burrows, W.; Charland, J.-P.; Dehghan, A.; Driedger, N.; Duhaime, C.; Evans, G.; Filion, A.-B.; Frenette, R.; de Grandpré, J.; Gultepe, I.; Henderson, D.; Herdt, A.; Hilker, N.; Huang, L.; Hung, E.; Isaac, G.; Jeong, C.-H.; Johnston, D.; Klaassen, J.; Leroyer, S.; Lin, H.; MacDonald, M.; MacPhee, J.; Mariani, Z.; Munoz, T.; Reid, J.; Robichaud, A.; Rochon, Y.; Shairsingh, K.; Sills, D.; Spacek, L.; Stroud, C.; Su, Y.; Taylor, N.; Vanos, J.; Voogt, J.; Wang, J. M.; Wiechers, T.; Wren, S.; Yang, H.; Yip, T. (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractThe Pan and Parapan American Games (PA15) are the third largest sporting event in the world and were held in Toronto in the summer of 2015 (10?26 July and 7?15 August). This was used as an opportunity to coordinate ...

    • Toward an Operational Water Cycle Prediction System for the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River 

      Durnford, D.; Fortin, V.; Smith, G. C.; Archambault, B.; Deacu, D.; Dupont, F.; Dyck, S.; Martinez, Y.; Klyszejko, E.; MacKay, M.; Liu, L.; Pellerin, P.; Pietroniro, A.; Roy, F.; Vu, V.; Winter, B.; Yu, W.; Spence, C.; Bruxer, J.; Dickhout, J. (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractIn this time of a changing climate, it is important to know whether lake levels will rise, potentially causing flooding, or river flows will dry up during abnormally dry weather. The Great Lakes region is the largest ...

    • The South Georgia Wave Experiment: A Means for Improved Analysis of Gravity Waves and Low-Level Wind Impacts Generated from Mountainous Islands 

      Jackson, D. R.; Gadian, A.; Hindley, N. P.; Hoffmann, L.; Hughes, J.; King, J.; Moffat-Griffin, T.; Moss, A. C.; Ross, A. N.; Vosper, S. B.; Wright, C. J.; Mitchell, N. J. (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractGravity waves (GWs) play an important role in many atmospheric processes. However, the observation-based understanding of GWs is limited, and representing them in numerical models is difficult. Recent studies show ...

    • A Look at 2017: Takeaway Points from the State of the Climate Supplement 

      Hartfield, G.; Blunden, J.; Arndt, D. S. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)

    • Mobile X-Pol Radar: A New Tool for Investigating Pyroconvection and Associated Wildfire Meteorology 

      McCarthy, Nicholas; McGowan, Hamish; Guyot, Adrien; Dowdy, Andrew (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AbstractThe process of pyroconvection occurs when fire-released heat, moisture, and/or aerosols induce or augment convection in the atmosphere. Prediction of pyroconvection presents a set of complex problems for meteorologists ...

    • Explaining Extreme Events of 2016 from a Climate Perspective 

      Herring, Stephanie C.; Christidis, Nikolaos; Hoell, Andrew; Kossin, James P.; Schreck, Carl J.; Stott, Peter A. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      Editors note: For easy download the posted pdf of the Explaining Extreme Events of 2016 is a very low-resolution file. A high-resolution copy of the report is available by clicking here. Please be patient as it may take a ...

    • A Workshop on Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere in Anticipation of the EarthCARE Satellite Mission 

      Luebke, Anna E.; Delanoë, Julien; Noel, Vincent; Chepfer, Hélène; Stevens, Bjorn (American Meteorological Society, 2018)