Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program: A New International Ocean Observing System 

      Susan Lozier, M.; Bacon, Sheldon; Bower, Amy S.; Cunningham, Stuart A.; Femke de Jong, M.; de Steur, Laura; deYoung, Brad; Fischer, Jürgen; Gary, Stefan F.; Greenan, Blair J. W.; Heimbach, Patrick; Holliday, Naomi P.; Houpert, Loïc; Inall, Mark E.; Johns, William E.; Johnson, Helen L.; Karstensen, Johannes; Li, Feili; Lin, Xiaopei; Mackay, Neill; Marshall, David P.; Mercier, Herlé; Myers, Paul G.; Pickart, Robert S.; Pillar, Helen R.; Straneo, Fiammetta; Thierry, Virginie; Weller, Robert A.; Williams, Richard G.; Wilson, Chris; Yang, Jiayan; Zhao, Jian; Zika, Jan D. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      or decades oceanographers have understood the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) to be primarily driven by changes in the production of deep-water formation in the subpolar and subarctic North Atlantic. ...

    • WMO World Record Lightning Extremes: Longest Reported Flash Distance and Longest Reported Flash Duration 

      Lang, Timothy J.; Pédeboy, Stéphane; Rison, William; Cerveny, Randall S.; Montanyà, Joan; Chauzy, Serge; MacGorman, Donald R.; Holle, Ronald L.; Ávila, Eldo E.; Zhang, Yijun; Carbin, Gregory; R. Mansell, Edward; Kuleshov, Yuriy; Peterson, Thomas C.; Brunet, Manola; Driouech, Fatima; Krahenbuhl, Daniel S. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      Statement:A World Meteorological Organization committee has judged that the world?s longest reported distance for a single lightning flash occurred with a horizontal distance of 321 km (199.5 mi) over Oklahoma in 2007, ...

    • Exploring Trends through “RainSphere”: Research data transformed into public knowledge 

      Nguyen, Phu; Sorooshian, Soroosh; Thorstensen, Andrea; Tran, Hoang; Huynh, Phat; Pham, Thanh; Ashouri, Hamed; Hsu, Kuolin; AghaKouchak, Amir; Braithwaite, Dan (American Meteorological Society, 2016)

    • Re-Writing the Tropical Record Books: The Extraordinary Intensification of Hurricane Patricia (2015) 

      Rogers, Robert F.; Aberson, Sim; Bell, Michael M.; Cecil, Daniel J.; Doyle, James D.; Kimberlain, Todd B.; Morgerman, Josh; Shay, Lynn K.; Velden, Christopher (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      st Pacific Hurricane Patricia (2015) broke several records, including intensification rate and peak intensity. An impressive array of observations were collected in this storm for much of its lifecycle.

    • On the Physics of three Integrated Assessment Models 

      Calel, Raphael; Stainforth, David A (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      ntegrated assessment models (IAMs) are the main tools for combining physical and economic analyses to develop and assess climate change policy. Policy makers have relied heavily on three IAMs in particular?DICE, FUND, and ...

    • Diurnal Variation of TRMM/LIS Lightning Flash Radiances 

      Chronis, Themistoklis; Koshak, William J. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      his study provides, for the first time, an analysis of the climatological diurnal variations in the lightning flash radiance data product (ε) from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Lightning Imaging Sensor (TRMM/LIS). ...

    • Toward a User-Centered Design of a Weather Forecasting Decision-Support Tool 

      Argyle, Elizabeth M.; Gourley, Jonathan J.; Flamig, Zachary L.; Hansen, Tracy; Manross, Kevin (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      azard Services is a software toolkit that integrates information management, hazard alerting, and communication functions into a single user interface. When complete, National Weather Service forecasters across the United ...

    • Climate Process Team on Internal-Wave Driven Ocean Mixing 

      MacKinnon, Jennifer A.; Alford, Matthew H.; Ansong, Joseph K.; Arbic, Brian K.; Barna, Andrew; Briegleb, Bruce P.; Bryan, Frank O.; Buijsman, Maarten C.; Chassignet, Eric P.; Danabasoglu, Gokhan; Diggs, Steve; Griffies, Stephen M.; Hallberg, Robert W.; Jayne, Steven R.; Jochum, Markus; Klymak, Jody M.; Kunze, Eric; Large, William G.; Legg, Sonya; Mater, Benjamin; Melet, Angelique V.; Merchant, Lynne M.; Musgrave, Ruth; Nash, Jonathan D.; Norton, Nancy J.; Pickering, Andrew; Pinkel, Robert; Polzin, Kurt; Simmons, Harper L.; St. Laurent, Louis C.; Sun, Oliver M.; Trossman, David S.; Waterhouse, Amy F.; Whalen, Caitlin B.; Zhao, Zhongxiang (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      cent advances in our understanding of internal-wave driven turbulent mixing in the ocean interior are summarized. New parameterizations for global climate ocean models, and their climate impacts, are introduced.

    • Toward reduced representation of mixing state for simulating aerosol effects on climate 

      Fierce, Laura; Riemer, Nicole; Bond, Tami C. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      tmospheric aerosols affect Earth?s energy budget, and hence its climate, by scattering and absorbing solar radiation and by altering the radiative properties and the lifetime of clouds. These two major aerosol effects ...

    • PDRMIP: A Precipitation Driver and Response Model Intercomparison Project, Protocol and preliminary results 

      Myhre, G.; Forster, P. M.; Samset, B. H.; Hodnebrog, Ø.; Sillmann, J.; Aalbergsjø, S. G.; Andrews, T.; Boucher, O.; Faluvegi, G.; Fläschner, D.; Iversen, T.; Kasoar, M.; Kharin, V.; Kirkevåg, A.; Lamarque, J.-F.; Olivié, D.; Richardson, T.; Shindell, D.; Shine, K. P.; Stjern, Camilla W.; Takemura, T.; Voulgarakis, A.; Zwiers, F. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      s the global temperature increases with changing climate, precipitation rates and patterns are affected through a wide range of physical mechanisms. The globally averaged intensity of extreme precipitation also changes ...

    • Unlocking the potential of NEXRAD data through NOAA’s Big Data Partnership 

      Ansari, Steve; Del Greco, Stephen; Kearns, Edward; Brown, Otis; Wilkins, Scott; Ramamurthy, Mohan; Weber, Jeff; May, Ryan; Sundwall, Jed; Layton, Jeff; Gold, Ariel; Pasch, Adam; Lakshmanan, Valliappa (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      AA?s Big Data Partnership (BDP) has facilitated unprecedented access to NEXRAD real-time and archive data, enabling cloud computing that is accessible, efficient and innovative.

    • Earth System Science Frontiers - an ECS perspective 

      Rauser, Florian; Alqadi, Mohammad; Arowolo, Steve; Baker, Noël; Behrens, Erik; Bedard, Joel; Dogulu, Nilay; Gatti Domingues, Lucas; Frassoni, Ariane; Keller, Julia; Kirkpatrick, Sarah; Langendijk, Gaby; Mohammad, Salauddin; Mirsafa, Masoumeh; Naumann, Ann Kristin; Osman, Marisol; Reed, Kevin; Greilinger, Marion; Schemann, Vera; Singh, Awnesh; Sonntag, Sebastian; Tummon, Fiona; Nnamdi, Dike Victor; Villafuerte, Marcelino Q.; Walawender, Jakub P.; Zaroug, Modathir (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      he exigencies of the global community towards Earth system science will increase in the future as population, economies and the human footprint on the planet continue to grow. This growth, combined with intensifying ...

    • Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Products and Services at the NASA GES DISC 

      Liu, Z.; Ostrenga, D.; Vollmer, B.; Deshong, B.; Macritchie, K.; Greene, M.; Kempler, S. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      his article describes NASA/JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission products and services at the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC). Built on the success of the Tropical ...

    • Climate Information for Arbovirus Risk Monitoring: Opportunities and Challenges 

      Zaitchik, Benjamin F.; Hayden, Mary H.; Villela, Daniel A. M.; Lord, Cynthia C.; Kitron, Uriel D.; Carvajal, José Joaquín; Câmara, Daniel C. P.; dos Reis, Izabel C. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)

    • The Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Prediction Project Database 

      Vitart, F.; Ardilouze, C.; Bonet, A.; Brookshaw, A.; Chen, M.; Codorean, C.; Déqué, M.; Ferranti, L.; Fucile, E.; Fuentes, M.; Hendon, H.; Hodgson, J.; Kang, H.-S.; Kumar, A.; Lin, H.; Liu, G.; Liu, X.; Malguzzi, P.; Mallas, I.; Manoussakis, M.; Mastrangelo, D.; MacLachlan, C.; McLean, P.; Minami, A.; Mladek, R.; Nakazawa, T.; Najm, S.; Nie, Y.; Rixen, M.; Robertson, A. W.; Ruti, P.; Sun, C.; Takaya, Y.; Tolstykh, M.; Venuti, F.; Waliser, D.; Woolnough, S.; Wu, T.; Won, D.-J.; Xiao, H.; Zaripov, R.; Zhang, L. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      emands are growing rapidly in the operational prediction and applications communities for forecasts that fill the gap between medium-range weather and long-range or seasonal forecasts. Based on the potential for improved ...

    • ISEC 2015: Integrating Research and Education to Study Severe Weather and Climate Variability 

      Kirstetter, Pierre-Emmanuel; Yu, Tian-You; Palmer, Robert; Parsons, David; Ishikawa, Hirohiko; Erlingis, Jessica M. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)

    • Observing and Predicting the 2015-16 El Niño 

      L’Heureux, Michelle L.; Takahashi, Ken; Watkins, Andrew B.; Barnston, Anthony G.; Becker, Emily J.; Di Liberto, Tom E.; Gamble, Felicity; Gottschalck, Jon; Halpert, Michael S.; Huang, Boyin; Mosquera-Vásquez, Kobi; Wittenberg, Andrew T. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      he El Niño of 2015-16 was among the strongest El Niño events observed since 1950, and took place almost two decades after the previous major event in 1997-98. Here, perspectives of the event are shared by scientists from ...

    • Advances in Climate Analysis and Monitoring: Reflections on 40 Years of Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshops 

      Ropelewski, C. F.; Arkin, P. A. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      e examine the progress in the analysis of climate variability through the lens of a 40-year series of annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshops initiated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

    • Rainbows, Halos, Coronas and Glories: Beautiful Sources of Information 

      Können, Gunther P. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      ainbows, halos, coronas, and glories are aesthetic features admired over millennia by man. They are also carriers of useful information about the physical properties of drops and solid particles floating in the atmospheres ...

    • Climate Engine: Cloud Computing and Visualization of Climate and Remote Sensing Data for Advanced Natural Resource Monitoring and Process Understanding 

      Huntington, Justin L.; Hegewisch, Katherine C.; Daudert, Britta; Morton, Charles G.; Abatzoglou, John T.; McEvoy, Daniel J.; Erickson, Tyler (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      imate Engine enables users to process, visualize, download, and share climate and remote sensing datasets with a simple web-connection, thereby overcoming common big data barriers.