Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions
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Arctic Radiation-IceBridge Sea and Ice Experiment (ARISE): The Arctic Radiant Energy System During the Critical Seasonal Ice Transition
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)ASA?s Arctic Radiation-IceBridge Sea and Ice Experiment (ARISE) acquired unique aircraft data on atmospheric radiation and sea-ice properties during the critical late-summer to autumn sea-ice minimum and commencement of ... -
Celebrating COMET’s 25 Years of Providing Innovative Education and Training
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education, and Training (COMET)?s mission when it began in 1990 was to deliver professional development opportunities to U.S. government forecasters during the National ... -
The Deep Propagating Gravity Wave Experiment (DEEPWAVE): An Airborne and Ground-Based Exploration of Gravity Wave Propagation and Effects from Their Sources throughout the Lower and Middle Atmosphere
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he Deep Propagating Gravity Wave Experiment (DEEPWAVE) was designed to quantify gravity wave (GW) dynamics and effects from orographic and other sources to regions of dissipation at high altitudes. The core DEEPWAVE field ... -
Worldwide Survey of Awareness and Needs Concerning Reanalyses and Respondents Views on Climate Services
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)worldwide online survey about user awareness of reanalyses and climate services was conducted in the period from November 2013 to February 2014 by the Coordinating Earth Observation Data Validation for Re-Analysis for ... -
An Experiment on Risk-Based Decision-Making in Water Management Using Monthly Probabilistic Forecasts
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he use of probabilistic forecasts is necessary to take into account uncertainties and allow for optimal risk-based decisions in streamflow forecasting at monthly to seasonal lead times. Such probabilistic forecasts have ... -
Fostering a Collaborative Atmospheric Chemistry Research Community in the Latin America and Caribbean Region
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)n 2013, the international Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (iCACGP) and the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Project Americas Working Group (iCACGP/IGAC AWG) was formed to build a ... -
The NASA Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment: High-Altitude Aircraft Measurements in the Tropical Western Pacific
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he February?March 2014 deployment of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX) provided unique in situ measurements in the western Pacific tropical tropopause ... -
Visualizing Rayleigh Scattering through UV Photography
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)tailored camera setup has been used to take photographs of the atmosphere and the environment as seen in the ultraviolet (UV) wavelength band. These photographs make visible what the human eye cannot normally perceive?in ... -
A Solar Irradiance Climate Data Record
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)e present a new climate data record for total solar irradiance and solar spectral irradiance between 1610 and the present day with associated wavelength and time-dependent uncertainties and quarterly updates. The data ... -
Reply to “Comments on ‘Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge’”
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Mobile Radiosonde Deployments during the Mesoscale Predictability Experiment (MPEX): Rapid and Adaptive Sampling of Upscale Convective Feedbacks
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he Mesoscale Predictability Experiment (MPEX) was a field campaign conducted 15 May through 15 June 2013 within the Great Plains region of the United States. One of the research foci of MPEX regarded the upscaling effects ... -
ACRIDICON–CHUVA Campaign: Studying Tropical Deep Convective Clouds and Precipitation over Amazonia Using the New German Research Aircraft HALO
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)etween 1 September and 4 October 2014, a combined airborne and ground-based measurement campaign was conducted to study tropical deep convective clouds over the Brazilian Amazon rain forest. The new German research aircraft, ... -
Improving the Mapping and Prediction of Offshore Wind Resources (IMPOWR): Experimental Overview and First Results
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he wind resource offshore of the East Coast of the United States is well known for its potential to provide abundant, clean, renewable, and domestic electricity. However, limited observations from this region are recorded ... -
A Proposed Revision to the Definition of “Derecho”
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he word ?derecho? was first used by Gustavus Hinrichs in 1888 to distinguish the widespread damaging windstorms that occurred on occasion over the mid?Mississippi Valley region of the United States from damaging winds ... -
A Review of Targeted Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)t has long been conceived that numerical weather forecasts will benefit from the assimilation of supplementary observations that augment the conventional observational network. In particular, the concept of ?targeting? ... -
Effectively Communicating Risk and Uncertainty to the Public: Assessing the National Weather Service’s Flood Forecast and Warning Tools
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)iven the constant bombardment of weather information in different formats and time frames with different levels of certainty, how does an important message make an impact? For weather and river forecast offices, this is a ... -
The North American Monsoon GPS Transect Experiment 2013
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)orthwestern Mexico experiences large variations in water vapor on seasonal time scales in association with the North American monsoon, as well as during the monsoon associated with upper-tropospheric troughs, mesoscale ... -
The Barbados Cloud Observatory: Anchoring Investigations of Clouds and Circulation on the Edge of the ITCZ
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)louds over the ocean, particularly throughout the tropics, are poorly understood and drive much of the uncertainty in model-based projections of climate change. In early 2010, the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and ... -
Multiple-Apogee Highly Elliptical Orbits for Continuous Meteorological Imaging of Polar Regions: Challenging the Classical 12-h Molniya Orbit Concept
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)novel type of multiple-apogee highly elliptical orbits termed as MAP HEO with a period of rotation between 14 h and 15 h is introduced. These orbits are designed to achieve continuous geostationary (GEO)-like imaging of ... -
Advancing Polar Prediction Capabilities on Daily to Seasonal Time Scales
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he polar regions have been attracting more and more attention in recent years, fueled by the perceptible impacts of anthropogenic climate change. Polar climate change provides new opportunities, such as shorter shipping ...