Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Potential Value of Expert Elicitation for Determining Differential Credibility of Regional Climate Change Simulations: An Exercise with the NARCCAP co-PIs for the Southwest Monsoon Region of North America 

      Mearns, Linda O.; Bukovsky, Melissa S.; Schweizer, Vanessa J. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      n this brief article, we report the initial results of an expert elicitation with the co-PIs (regional climate modelers) of the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program regarding their evaluation of the ...

    • XBT Science: Assessment of Instrumental Biases and Errors 

      Cheng, Lijing; Abraham, John; Goni, Gustavo; Boyer, Timothy; Wijffels, Susan; Cowley, Rebecca; Gouretski, Viktor; Reseghetti, Franco; Kizu, Shoichi; Dong, Shenfu; Bringas, Francis; Goes, Marlos; Houpert, Loïc; Sprintall, Janet; Zhu, Jiang (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      xpendable bathythermograph (XBT) data were the major component of the ocean temperature profile observations from the late 1960s through the early 2000s, and XBTs still continue to provide critical data to monitor surface ...

    • Doppler Radar Analysis of Triple Eyewalls in Typhoon Usagi (2013) 

      Zhao, Kun; Lin, Qing; Lee, Wen-Chau; Qiang Sun, Y.; Zhang, Fuqing (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      trong tropical cyclones often undergo eyewall replacement cycles that are accompanied by concentric eyewalls and/or rapid intensity changes while the secondary eyewall contracts radially inward and eventually replaces the ...

    • Sustained Production of Multidecadal Climate Records: Lessons from the NOAA Climate Data Record Program 

      Bates, John J.; Privette, Jeffrey L.; Kearns, Edward J.; Glance, Walter; Zhao, Xuepeng (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      he key objective of the NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) program is the sustained production of high-quality, multidecadal time series data describing the global atmosphere, oceans, and land surface that can be used for ...

    • CMIP5 Scientific Gaps and Recommendations for CMIP6 

      Stouffer, R. J.; Eyring, V.; Meehl, G. A.; Bony, S.; Senior, C.; Stevens, B.; Taylor, K. E. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      he Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) is an ongoing coordinated international activity of numerical experimentation of unprecedented scope and impact on climate science. Its most recent phase, the fifth phase ...

    • Coordinated Airborne Studies in the Tropics (CAST) 

      Harris, N. R. P.; Carpenter, L. J.; Lee, J. D.; Vaughan, G.; Filus, M. T.; Jones, R. L.; OuYang, B.; Pyle, J. A.; Robinson, A. D.; Andrews, S. J.; Lewis, A. C.; Minaeian, J.; Vaughan, A.; Dorsey, J. R.; Gallagher, M. W.; Le Breton, M.; Newton, R.; Percival, C. J.; Ricketts, H. M. A.; Bauguitte, S. J.-B.; Nott, G. J.; Wellpott, A.; Ashfold, M. J.; Flemming, J.; Butler, R.; Palmer, P. I.; Kaye, P. H.; Stopford, C.; Chemel, C.; Boesch, H.; Humpage, N.; Vick, A.; MacKenzie, A. R.; Hyde, R.; Angelov, P.; Meneguz, E.; Manning, A. J. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      he main field activities of the Coordinated Airborne Studies in the Tropics (CAST) campaign took place in the west Pacific during January?February 2014. The field campaign was based in Guam (13.5°N, 144.8°E), using the ...

    • Increasing the Diversity of Your Graduate Program: Translating Best Practices into Success 

      Burt, Melissa A.; Haacker, Rebecca; Batchelor, Rebecca L.; Denning, A. Scott (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      espite awareness in the geosciences that our field has a substantial lack of diversity in our workforce and student body, and countless efforts to broaden participation, graduate enrollment in the atmospheric sciences by ...

    • Climate Symposium 2014: Findings and Recommendations 

      Asrar, Ghassem; Bony, Sandrine; Boucher, Olivier; Busalacchi, Antonio; Cazenave, Anny; Dowell, Mark; Flato, Greg; Hegerl, Gabi; Källén, Erland; Nakajima, Teruyuki; Ratier, Alain; Saunders, Roger; Slingo, Julia; Sohn, Byung-Ju; Schmetz, Johannes; Stevens, Bjorn; Zhang, Peiqun; Zwiers, Francis (American Meteorological Society, 2015)

    • Mesoscale Model Evaluation Testbed (MMET): A Resource for Transitioning NWP Innovations from Research to Operations (R2O) 

      Wolff, Jamie K.; Harrold, Michelle; Hertneky, Tracy; Aligo, Eric; Carley, Jacob R.; Ferrier, Brad; DiMego, Geoff; Nance, Louisa; Kuo, Ying-Hwa (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      wide range of numerical weather prediction (NWP) innovations are under development in the research community that have the potential to positively impact operational models. The Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) helps ...

    • A Minimum Standard for Publishing Computational Results in the Weather and Climate Sciences 

      Irving, Damien (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      eather and climate science has undergone a computational revolution in recent decades, to the point where all modern research relies heavily on software and code. Despite this profound change in the research methods employed ...

    • The Tropical Air–Sea Propagation Study (TAPS) 

      Kulessa, A. S.; Barrios, A.; Claverie, J.; Garrett, S.; Haack, T.; Hacker, J. M.; Hansen, H. J.; Horgan, K.; Hurtaud, Y.; Lemon, C.; Marshall, R.; McGregor, J.; McMillan, M.; Périard, C.; Pourret, V.; Price, J.; Rogers, L. T.; Short, C.; Veasey, M.; Wiss, V. R. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      he purpose of the Tropical Air?Sea Propagation Study (TAPS), which was conducted during November?December 2013, was to gather coordinated atmospheric and radio frequency (RF) data, offshore of northeastern Australia, in ...

    • So, How Much of the Earth’s Surface Is Covered by Rain Gauges? 

      Kidd, Chris; Becker, Andreas; Huffman, George J.; Muller, Catherine L.; Joe, Paul; Skofronick-Jackson, Gail; Kirschbaum, Dalia B. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      he measurement of global precipitation, both rainfall and snowfall, is critical to a wide range of users and applications. Rain gauges are indispensable in the measurement of precipitation, remaining the de facto standard ...

    • Lessons from First-Generation Climate Science Integrators 

      Brugger, Julie; Meadow, Alison; Horangic, Alexandra (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      here is an increasing demand for climate science that decision-makers can readily use to address issues created by climate variability and climate change. To be usable, the science must be relevant to their context and the ...

    • Feeling the Pulse of the Stratosphere: An Emerging Opportunity for Predicting Continental-Scale Cold-Air Outbreaks 1 Month in Advance 

      Cai, Ming; Yu, Yueyue; Deng, Yi; van den Dool, Huug M.; Ren, Rongcai; Saha, Suru; Wu, Xingren; Huang, Jin (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      xtreme weather events such as cold-air outbreaks (CAOs) pose great threats to human life and the socioeconomic well-being of modern society. In the past, our capability to predict their occurrences has been constrained by ...

    • HYDRA2: A Multispectral Data Analysis Toolkit for Sensors on Suomi-NPP and Other Current Satellite Platforms 

      Rink, Tom; Menzel, W. Paul; Gumley, Liam; Strabala, Kathy (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      he Hyperspectral Data Viewer for Development of Research Applications, version 2 (HYDRA2), is a freeware-based multispectral analysis toolkit for satellite data that assists scientists in research and development, as well ...

    • Participatory Research Workshop on Seasonal Prediction of Hydroclimatic Extremes in the Greater Horn of Africa 

      Tadesse, Tsegaye; Bathke, Deborah; Wall, Nicole; Petr, Jacob; Haigh, Tonya (American Meteorological Society, 2015)

    • Priorities for Boundary Layer Meteorology Research in China 

      Lee, Xuhui; Gao, Zhiqiu; Zhang, Chaolin; Chen, Fei; Hu, Yinqiao; Jiang, Weimei; Liu, Shuhua; Lu, Longhua; Sun, Jielun; Wang, Jiemin; Zeng, Zhihua; Zhang, Qiang; Zhao, Ming; Zhou, Mingyu (American Meteorological Society, 2015)

    • WRF-Solar: Description and Clear-Sky Assessment of an Augmented NWP Model for Solar Power Prediction 

      Jimenez, Pedro A.; Hacker, Joshua P.; Dudhia, Jimy; Haupt, Sue Ellen; Ruiz-Arias, Jose A.; Gueymard, Chris A.; Thompson, Gregory; Eidhammer, Trude; Deng, Aijun (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      RF-Solar is a specific configuration and augmentation of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model designed for solar energy applications. Recent upgrades to the WRF Model contribute to making the model appropriate ...

    • Arctic Observation and Reanalysis Integrated System: A New Data Product for Validation and Climate Study 

      Christensen, Matthew W.; Behrangi, Ali; L’ecuyer, Tristan S.; Wood, Norman B.; Lebsock, Matthew D.; Stephens, Graeme L. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)

    • The Convective Transport of Active Species in the Tropics (CONTRAST) Experiment 

      Pan, L. L.; Atlas, E. L.; Salawitch, R. J.; Honomichl, S. B.; Bresch, J. F.; Randel, W. J.; Apel, E. C.; Hornbrook, R. S.; Weinheimer, A. J.; Anderson, D. C.; Andrews, S. J.; Baidar, S.; Beaton, S. P.; Campos, T. L.; Carpenter, L. J.; Chen, D.; Dix, B.; Donets, V.; Hall, S. R.; Hanisco, T. F.; Homeyer, C. R.; Huey, L. G.; Jensen, J. B.; Kaser, L.; Kinnison, D. E.; Koenig, T. K.; Lamarque, J.-F.; Liu, C.; Luo, J.; Luo, Z. J.; Montzka, D. D.; Nicely, J. M.; Pierce, R. B.; Riemer, D. D.; Robinson, T.; Romashkin, P.; Saiz-Lopez, A.; Schauffler, S.; Shieh, O.; Stell, M. H.; Ullmann, K.; Vaughan, G.; Volkamer, R.; Wolfe, G. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      he Convective Transport of Active Species in the Tropics (CONTRAST) experiment was conducted from Guam (13.5°N, 144.8°E) during January?February 2014. Using the NSF/NCAR Gulfstream V research aircraft, the experiment ...