Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • When El Niño Rages: How Satellite Data Can Help Water-Stressed Islands 

      Luchetti, Nicholas T.; Sutton, Jessica R. P.; Wright, Ethan E.; Kruk, Michael C.; Marra, John J. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      here are more than 2,000 islands across Hawaii and the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI), where freshwater resources are heavily dependent upon rainfall. Many of the islands experience dramatic variations in precipitation ...

    • A Laboratory Facility to Study Gas–Aerosol–Cloud Interactions in a Turbulent Environment: The Π Chamber 

      Chang, K.; Bench, J.; Brege, M.; Cantrell, W.; Chandrakar, K.; Ciochetto, D.; Mazzoleni, C.; Mazzoleni, L. R.; Niedermeier, D.; Shaw, R. A. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      detailed understanding of interactions of aerosols, cloud droplets/ice crystals, and trace gases within the atmosphere is of prime importance for an accurate understanding of Earth?s weather and climate. One aspect that ...

    • Aspen Global Change Institute: 25 Years of Interdisciplinary Global Change Science 

      Meehl, Gerald A.; Moss, Richard (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      lobal Global environmental changes, such as climate change, result from the interaction of human and natural systems. Understanding these changes and options for addressing them requires research in the physical, environmental, ...

    • Summary and Broader Context 

      Herring, Stephanie C.; Hoerling, Martin P.; Kossin, James P.; Peterson, Thomas C.; Stott, Peter A. (American Meteorological Society, 2015)

    • What Is the Polar Vortex and How Does It Influence Weather? 

      Waugh, Darryn W.; Sobel, Adam H.; Polvani, Lorenzo M. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      he term polar vortex has become part of the everyday vocabulary, but there is some confusion in the media, general public, and science community regarding what polar vortices are and how they are related to various weather ...

    • ML-CIRRUS: The Airborne Experiment on Natural Cirrus and Contrail Cirrus with the High-Altitude Long-Range Research Aircraft HALO 

      Voigt, Christiane; Schumann, Ulrich; Minikin, Andreas; Abdelmonem, Ahmed; Afchine, Armin; Borrmann, Stephan; Boettcher, Maxi; Buchholz, Bernhard; Bugliaro, Luca; Costa, Anja; Curtius, Joachim; Dollner, Maximilian; Dörnbrack, Andreas; Dreiling, Volker; Ebert, Volker; Ehrlich, Andre; Fix, Andreas; Forster, Linda; Frank, Fabian; Fütterer, Daniel; Giez, Andreas; Graf, Kaspar; Grooß, Jens-Uwe; Groß, Silke; Heimerl, Katharina; Heinold, Bernd; Hüneke, Tilman; Järvinen, Emma; Jurkat, Tina; Kaufmann, Stefan; Kenntner, Mareike; Klingebiel, Marcus; Klimach, Thomas; Kohl, Rebecca; Krämer, Martina; Krisna, Trismono Candra; Luebke, Anna; Mayer, Bernhard; Mertes, Stephan; Molleker, Sergej; Petzold, Andreas; Pfeilsticker, Klaus; Port, Max; Rapp, Markus; Reutter, Philipp; Rolf, Christian; Rose, Diana; Sauer, Daniel; Schäfler, Andreas; Schlage, Romy; Schnaiter, Martin; Schneider, Johannes; Spelten, Nicole; Spichtinger, Peter; Stock, Paul; Walser, Adrian; Weigel, Ralf; Weinzierl, Bernadett; Wendisch, Manfred; Werner, Frank; Wernli, Heini; Wirth, Martin; Zahn, Andreas; Ziereis, Helmut; Zöger, Martin (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      he Midlatitude Cirrus experiment (ML-CIRRUS) deployed the High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft (HALO) to obtain new insights into nucleation, life cycle, and climate impact of natural cirrus and aircraft-induced ...

    • A Global Capacity Building Vision for Societal Applications of Earth Observing Systems and Data: Key Questions and Recommendations 

      Hossain, Faisal; Serrat-Capdevila, Aleix; Granger, Stephanie; Thomas, Amy; Saah, David; Ganz, David; Mugo, Robinson; Murthy, M. S. R.; Ramos, Victor Hugo; Fonseca, Carolyn; Anderson, Eric; Schumann, Guy; Lewison, Rebecca; Kirschbaum, Dalia; Escobar, Vanessa; Srinivasan, Margaret; Lee, Christine; Iqbal, Naveed; Levine, Elliot; Searby, Nancy; Friedl, Lawrence; Flores, Africa; Coulter, Dauna; Irwin, Dan; Limaye, Ashutosh; Stough, Tim; Skiles, Jay; Estes, Sue; Crosson, William; Akanda, Ali S. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)

    • Collaborative Efforts between the U.S. and U.K. to Advance Prediction of High Impact Weather 

      Kain, John S.; Willington, Steve; Clark, Adam J.; Weiss, Steven J.; Weeks, Mark; Jirak, Israel L.; Coniglio, Michael C.; Roberts, Nigel M.; Karstens, Christopher D.; Wilkinson, Jonathan M.; Knopfmeier, Kent H.; Lean, Humphrey W.; Ellam, Laura; Hanley, Kirsty; North, Rachel; Suri, Dan (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      e international partnership between NSSL, SPC, and the Met Office has been enthusiastic and productive, driven by strong mutual interests at a grassroots level and generous institutional support from parent government agencies.

    • Studying the Weather and Climate of Alaska Across a Network of Observers 

      Collins, Richard L.; Warner, Susan P.; Martus, Cameron M.; Moss, Jennifer L.; Leelasaskultum, Ketsiri; Winnan, Reynir C. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      eather and Climate of Alaska is an undergraduate course for nonscience majors where students study meteorology from their home as part of a statewide network of classmates. The students draw on their experience of the ...

    • Challenges and Opportunities in NASA Weather Research 

      Zeng, Xubin; Ackerman, Steve; Ferraro, Robert D.; Lee, Tsengdar J.; Murray, John J.; Pawson, Steven; Reynolds, Carolyn; Teixeira, Joao (American Meteorological Society, 2016)

    • Future Observing System Simulation Experiments 

      Hoffman, Ross N.; Atlas, Robert (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      s operational forecast and data assimilation (DA) systems evolve, observing system simulation experiment (OSSE) systems must evolve in parallel. Expected development of operational systems?especially the use of data that ...

    • NASA’s Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) Investigation 

      Braun, Scott A.; Newman, Paul A.; Heymsfield, Gerald M. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      he National Aeronautics and Space Administration?s (NASA) Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) investigation was a multiyear field campaign designed to improve understanding of the physical processes that control ...

    • Recent advances in satellite data rescue 

      Poli, Paul; Dee, Dick P.; Saunders, Roger; John, Viju O.; Rayer, Peter; Schulz, Jörg; Holmlund, Kenneth; Coppens, Dorothee; Klaes, Dieter; Johnson, James E.; Esfandiari, Asghar E.; Gerasimov, Irina V.; Zamkoff, Emily B.; Al-Jazrawi, Atheer F.; Santek, David; Albani, Mirko; Brunel, Pascal; Fennig, Karsten; Schröder, Marc; Kobayashi, Shinya; Oertel, Dieter; Döhler, Wolfgang; Spänkuch, Dietrich; Bojinski, Stephan (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      tellite data rescue activities uncover dormant records of our recent past. Unavailable back then, powerful methods enable today to assess and utilize early images and soundings for climate studies.

    • International Workshop at Fukushima, Japan, on Dispersion and Deposition Modeling for Nuclear Accident Releases: Transfer of Science from Academic to Operational Models 

      Hanna, Steven; Yamada, Tetsuji; Kondo, Hiroaki; Watanabe, Akira; Ohba, Ryohji (American Meteorological Society, 2015)

    • A Statistical Framework to Evaluate Extreme Weather Definitions from a Health Perspective: A Demonstration Based on Extreme Heat Events 

      Vaidyanathan, Ambarish; Kegler, Scott R.; Saha, Shubhayu S.; Mulholland, James A. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      ssuance of alerts, prior to or during extreme weather events, can be critical to preventing adverse health outcomes. In this paper, data describing episodes of extreme heat are used to demonstrate the application of a ...

    • MiKlip: A National Research Project on Decadal Climate Prediction 

      Marotzke, Jochem; Müller, Wolfgang A.; Vamborg, Freja S. E.; Becker, Paul; Cubasch, Ulrich; Feldmann, Hendrik; Kaspar, Frank; Kottmeier, Christoph; Marini, Camille; Polkova, Iuliia; Prömmel, Kerstin; Rust, Henning W.; Stammer, Detlef; Ulbrich, Uwe; Kadow, Christopher; Köhl, Armin; Kröger, Jürgen; Kruschke, Tim; Pinto, Joaquim G.; Pohlmann, Holger; Reyers, Mark; Schröder, Marc; Sienz, Frank; Timmreck, Claudia; Ziese, Markus (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      ittelfristige Klimaprognose (MiKlip), an 8-yr German national research project on decadal climate prediction, is organized around a global prediction system comprising the Max Planck Institute Earth System Model (MPI-ESM) ...

    • The Arbitrary Definition of the Current Atlantic Major Hurricane Landfall Drought 

      Hart, Robert E.; Chavas, Daniel R.; Guishard, Mark P. (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      major hurricane [96+ knots (kt; 1 kt = 0.51 m s?1) of maximum sustained wind] has not made landfall in the United States since Wilma (2005). Recent elegant stochastic?statistical modeling estimates the return period of a ...

    • Finescale Structure of a Snowstorm over the Northeastern United States: A First Look at High-Resolution HIAPER Cloud Radar Observations 

      Rauber, Robert M.; Ellis, Scott M.; Vivekanandan, J.; Stith, Jeffrey; Lee, Wen-Chau; McFarquhar, Greg M.; Jewett, Brian F.; Janiszeski, Andrew (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      he newly developed High-Performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research (HIAPER) Cloud Radar (HCR) is an airborne, W-band, dual-polarization, Doppler research radar that fits within an underwing pod ...

    • RADARNET-SUR FIRST WEATHER RADAR NETWORK IN TROPICAL HIGH MOUNTAINS 

      Bendix, Jörg; Fries, Andreas; Zárate, Jorge; Trachte, Katja; Rollenbeck, Rütger; Pucha-Cofrep, Franz; Paladines, Renzo; Palacios, Ivan; Orellana, Johanna; Oñate-Valdivieso, Fernando; Naranjo, Carlos; Mendoza, Leonardo; Mejia, Diego; Guallpa, Mario; Gordillo, Francisco; Gonzalez-Jaramillo, Victor; Dobbermann, Maik; Célleri, Rolando; Carrillo, Carlos; Araque, Augusto; Achilles, Sebastian (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      eather radar networks are indispensable tools for forecasting and disaster prevention in industrialized countries. However, they are far less common in countries of South America, which frequently suffer from an underdeveloped ...

    • Crowdsourcing the El Reno 2013 Tornado: A New Approach for Collation and Display of Storm Chaser Imagery for Scientific Applications 

      Seimon, Anton; Allen, John T.; Seimon, Tracie A.; Talbot, Skip J.; Hoadley, David K. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      he 31 May 2013 El Reno, Oklahoma, tornado is used to demonstrate how a video imagery database crowdsourced from storm chasers can be time-corrected and georeferenced to inform severe storm research. The tornado?s exceptional ...