Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Fourth CLIVAR Workshop on the Evaluation of ENSO Processes in Climate Models: ENSO in a Changing Climate 

      Guilyardi, Eric; Wittenberg, Andrew; Balmaseda, Magdalena; Cai, Wenju; Collins, Matthew; McPhaden, Michael J.; Watanabe, Masahiro; Yeh, Sang-Wook (American Meteorological Society, 2015)

    • Uncertainty Quantification in Climate Modeling and Projection 

      Qian, Yun; Jackson, Charles; Giorgi, Filippo; Booth, Ben; Duan, Qingyun; Forest, Chris; Higdon, Dave; Hou, Z. Jason; Huerta, Gabriel (American Meteorological Society, 2016)

    • NASA’s Remotely-sensed Precipitation: A Reservoir for Applications Users 

      Kirschbaum, Dalia B.; Huffman, George J.; Adler, Robert F.; Braun, Scott; Garrett, Kevin; Jones, Erin; McNally, Amy; Skofronick-Jackson, Gail; Stocker, Erich; Wu, Huan; Zaitchik, Benjamin F. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      recipitation is the fundamental source of freshwater in the water cycle. It is critical for everyone, from subsistence farmers in Africa to weather forecasters around the world, to know when, where and how much rain and ...

    • Mapping rainfall feedback to reveal the potential sensitivity of precipitation to biological aerosols 

      Morris, Cindy E.; Soubeyrand, Samuel; Bigg, E. Keith; Creamean, Jessie M.; Sands, David C. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      describe a tool to identify site-specific and seasonal effects of aerosols on rain from patterns in maps of rainfall feedback across regions with diverse topography and land use patterns.

    • A Situation-Based Analysis of Flash Flood Fatalities in the United States 

      Terti, Galateia; Ruin, Isabelle; Anquetin, Sandrine; Gourley, Jonathan J. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      his paper investigates the circumstances of 1,075 fatalities from flash flooding recorded from 1996 to 2014 across the United States. This study provides insights into the situations of the fatality events as determined ...

    • The ScaleX campaign: scale-crossing land-surface and boundary layer processes in the TERENO-preAlpine observatory 

      Wolf, B.; Chwala, C.; Fersch, B.; Garvelmann, J.; Junkermann, W.; Zeeman, M. J.; Angerer, A.; Adler, B.; Beck, C.; Brosy, C.; Brugger, P.; Emeis, S.; Dannenmann, M.; De Roo, F.; Diaz-Pines, E.; Haas, E.; Hagen, M.; Hajnsek, I.; Jacobeit, J.; Jagdhuber, T.; Kalthoff, N.; Kiese, R.; Kunstmann, H.; Kosak, O.; Krieg, R.; Malchow, C.; Mauder, M.; Merz, R.; Notarnicola, C.; Philipp, A.; Reif, W.; Reineke, S.; Rödiger, T.; Ruehr, N.; Schäfer, K.; Schrön, M.; Senatore, A.; Shupe, H.; Völksch, I.; Wanninger, C.; Zacharias, S.; Schmid, H. P. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      gmenting long-term ecosystem-atmosphere observations with multidisciplinary intensive campaigns aims at closing gaps in spatial and temporal scales of observation for energy- and biogeochemical cycling, and at stimulating ...

    • Challenges and Prospects for Reducing Coupled Climate Model SST Biases in the Eastern Tropical Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: The U.S. CLIVAR Eastern Tropical Oceans Synthesis Working Group 

      Zuidema, Paquita; Chang, Ping; Medeiros, Brian; Kirtman, Ben P.; Mechoso, Roberto; Schneider, Edwin K.; Toniazzo, Thomas; Richter, Ingo; Small, R. Justin; Bellomo, Katinka; Brandt, Peter; de Szoeke, Simon; Farrar, J. Thomas; Jung, Eunsil; Kato, Seiji; Li, Mingkui; Patricola, Christina; Wang, Zaiyu; Wood, Robert; Xu, Zhao (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      ell-known problems trouble coupled general circulation models of the eastern Atlantic and Pacific Ocean basins. Model climates are significantly more symmetric about the equator than is observed. Model sea surface temperatures ...

    • Parallelization and Performance of the NIM Weather Model on CPU, GPU and MIC Processors 

      Govett, Mark; Rosinski, Jim; Middlecoff, Jacques; Henderson, Tom; Lee, Jin; MacDonald, Alexander; Wang, Ning; Madden, Paul; Schramm, Julie; Duarte, Antonio (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      he design and performance of the NIM global weather prediction model is described. NIM is a dynamical core designed to run on CPU, GPU and MIC processors. It demonstrates efficient parallel performance and scalability to ...

    • Mobile Radar as an Undergraduate Education and Research Tool: The ERAU C-BREESE Field Experience with the Doppler-on-Wheels 

      Milrad, Shawn M.; Herbster, Christopher G. (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      mbry-Riddle Aeronautical University Convective-Boundary Research Engaging Educational Student Experiences (ERAU C-BREESE) was an 18-day National Science Foundation (NSF) funded educational Doppler-on-Wheels (DOW) deployment ...

    • Paving the Way for the Year of Polar Prediction 

      Goessling, Helge F.; Jung, Thomas; Klebe, Stefanie; Baeseman, Jenny; Bauer, Peter; Chen, Peter; Chevallier, Matthieu; Dole, Randall; Gordon, Neil; Ruti, Paolo; Bradley, Alice; Bromwich, David H.; Casati, Barbara; Chechin, Dmitry; Day, Jonathan J.; Massonnet, François; Mills, Brian; Renfrew, Ian; Smith, Gregory; Tatusko, Renee (American Meteorological Society, 2015)

    • Stochastic Parameterization: Toward a New View of Weather and Climate Models 

      Berner, Judith; Achatz, Ulrich; Batté, Lauriane; Bengtsson, Lisa; Cámara, Alvaro de la; Christensen, Hannah M.; Colangeli, Matteo; Coleman, Danielle R. B.; Crommelin, Daan; Dolaptchiev, Stamen I.; Franzke, Christian L. E.; Friederichs, Petra; Imkeller, Peter; Järvinen, Heikki; Juricke, Stephan; Kitsios, Vassili; Lott, François; Lucarini, Valerio; Mahajan, Salil; Palmer, Timothy N.; Penland, Cécile; Sakradzija, Mirjana; von Storch, Jin-Song; Weisheimer, Antje; Weniger, Michael; Williams, Paul D.; Yano, Jun-Ichi (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      he last decade has seen the success of stochastic parameterizations in short-term, medium-range, and seasonal forecasts: operational weather centers now routinely use stochastic parameterization schemes to represent model ...

    • Linking Seasonal Predictions to Decision-Making and Disaster Management in the Greater Horn of Africa 

      Tadesse, Tsegaye; Haigh, Tonya; Wall, Nicole; Shiferaw, Andualem; Zaitchik, Ben; Beyene, Shimelis; Berhan, Getachew; Petr, Jacob (American Meteorological Society, 2015)

    • “The Stippling Shows Statistically Significant Grid Points”: How Research Results are Routinely Overstated and Overinterpreted, and What to Do about It 

      Wilks, D. S. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      pecial care must be exercised in the interpretation of multiple statistical hypothesis tests?for example, when each of many tests corresponds to a different location. Correctly interpreting results of multiple simultaneous ...

    • Conflict about Climate Change at the American Meteorological Society: Meteorologists’ Views on a Scientific and Organizational Controversy 

      Stenhouse, Neil; Harper, Allison; Cai, Xiaomei; Cobb, Sara; Nicotera, Anne; Maibach, Edward (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      his article analyzes open-ended survey responses to understand how members of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) perceive conflict within the AMS over global warming. Of all survey respondents, 53% agreed that there ...

    • Observations of Severe Local Storms and Tornadoes with the Atmospheric Imaging Radar 

      Kurdzo, James M.; Nai, Feng; Bodine, David J.; Bonin, Timothy A.; Palmer, Robert D.; Cheong, Boon Leng; Lujan, Javier; Mahre, Andrew; Byrd, Andrew D. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      obile radar platforms designed for observation of severe local storms have consistently pushed the boundaries of spatial and temporal resolution in order to allow for detailed analysis of storm structure and evolution. ...

    • Mesonets: Meso-Scale Weather and Climate Observations for the U.S. 

      Mahmood, Rezaul; Boyles, Ryan; Brinson, Kevin; Fiebrich, Christopher; Foster, Stuart; Hubbard, Ken; Robinson, David; Andresen, Jeff; Leathers, Dan (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      eso-scale in-situ meteorological observations are essential for better understanding and forecasting the weather and climate and to aid in decision-making by a myriad of stakeholder communities. They include, for example, ...

    • Atmospheric Data Visualization in Mixed Reality 

      Cherukuru, Nihanth W.; Calhoun, Ronald; Scheitlin, Tim; Rehme, Matt; Kumar, Raghu Raj Prasanna (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      ixed reality taps into intuitive human perception by merging computer generated views of digital objects (or flow fields) with natural views. Digital objects can be positioned in 3D space and can mimic real objects in the ...

    • The 2015 Plains Elevated Convection at Night Field Project 

      Geerts, Bart; Parsons, David; Ziegler, Conrad L.; Weckwerth, Tammy M.; Biggerstaff, Michael I.; Clark, Richard D.; Coniglio, Michael C.; Demoz, Belay B.; Ferrare, Richard A.; Gallus, William A.; Haghi, Kevin; Hanesiak, John M.; Klein, Petra M.; Knupp, Kevin R.; Kosiba, Karen; McFarquhar, Greg M.; Moore, James A.; Nehrir, Amin R.; Parker, Matthew D.; Pinto, James O.; Rauber, Robert M.; Schumacher, Russ S.; Turner, David D.; Wang, Qing; Wang, Xuguang; Wang, Zhien; Wurman, Joshua (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      he central Great Plains region in North America has a nocturnal maximum in warm-season precipitation. Much of this precipitation comes from organized mesoscale convective systems (MCSs). This nocturnal maximum is ...

    • A containerized mesoscale model and analysis toolkit to accelerate classroom learning, collaborative research, and uncertainty quantification 

      Hacker, Joshua P.; Exby, John; Gill, David; Jimenez, Ivo; Maltzahn, Carlos; See, Timothy; Mullendore, Gretchen; Fossell, Kathryn (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      umerical weather prediction (NWP) experiments can be complex and time consuming; results depend on computational environments and numerous input parameters. Delays in learning and obtaining research results are inevitable. ...

    • On the climatological use of radar data mosaics: Possibilities and challenges 

      Fabry, Frédéric; Meunier, Véronique; Puigdomènech Treserras, Bernat; Cournoyer, Alexandra; Nelson, Brian (American Meteorological Society, 2017)
      ere the radar climatology of weather echoes is used to reveal how surface properties shape precipitation occurrence and to explore the ease or difficulty to unambiguously detect these effects.