Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Repeat Storm Surge Disasters of Typhoon Haiyan and Its 1897 Predecessor in the Philippines 

      Soria, Janneli Lea A.; Switzer, Adam D.; Villanoy, Cesar L.; Fritz, Hermann M.; Bilgera, Princess Hope T.; Cabrera, Olivia C.; Siringan, Fernando P.; Maria, Yvainne Yacat-Sta.; Ramos, Riovie D.; Fernandez, Ian Quino (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      n 8 November 2013, Typhoon Haiyan impacted the Philippines with estimated winds of approximately 314 km h-1 and an associated 5?7-m-high storm surge that struck Tacloban City and the surrounding coast of the shallow, ...

    • Climate Matters: A Comprehensive Educational Resource Program for Broadcast Meteorologists 

      Placky, Bernadette Woods; Maibach, Edward; Witte, Joe; Ward, Bud; Seitter, Keith; Gardiner, Ned; Herring, David; Cullen, Heidi (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      ocal TV meteorologists are optimally positioned to educate the public about the local implications of global climate change: They have high public trust as a source of climate science information, local TV is the #1 source ...

    • Using High-Resolution GPS Tracking Data of Bird Flight for Meteorological Observations 

      Treep, Jelle; Bohrer, Gil; Shamoun-Baranes, Judy; Duriez, Olivier; Prata de Moraes Frasson, Renato; Bouten, Willem (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      ird flight is strongly influenced by local meteorological conditions. With increasing amounts of high-frequency GPS data of bird movement becoming available, as tags become cheaper and lighter, opportunities are created ...

    • Characteristics of Thunderstorms That Produce Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes 

      Chronis, Themistoklis; Briggs, Michael S.; Priftis, George; Connaughton, Valerie; Brundell, James; Holzworth, Robert; Heckman, Stan; McBreen, Shelia; Fitzpatrick, Gerard; Stanbro, Matthew (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      round-based lightning detection systems geolocated 877 terrestrial gamma ray flashes (TGFs) from a sample of 2,279 TGFs detected with the Fermi Gamma Ray Burst Monitor (GBM). From these accurate geolocations, 24 TGFs are ...

    • A New Instrumented Airborne Platform for Atmospheric Research 

      Hamill, Patrick; Iraci, Laura T.; Yates, Emma L.; Gore, Warren; Bui, T. Paul; Tanaka, Tomoaki; Loewenstein, Max (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      he NASA Ames Research Center operates a new research platform for atmospheric studies: an instrumented Alpha Jet. The present complement of instruments allows for the determination of carbon dioxide, ozone, water vapor, ...

    • The METCRAX II Field Experiment: A Study of Downslope Windstorm-Type Flows in Arizona’s Meteor Crater 

      Lehner, Manuela; Whiteman, C. David; Hoch, Sebastian W.; Crosman, Erik T.; Jeglum, Matthew E.; Cherukuru, Nihanth W.; Calhoun, Ronald; Adler, Bianca; Kalthoff, Norbert; Rotunno, Richard; Horst, Thomas W.; Semmer, Steven; Brown, William O. J.; Oncley, Steven P.; Vogt, Roland; Grudzielanek, A. Martina; Cermak, Jan; Fonteyne, Nils J.; Bernhofer, Christian; Pitacco, Andrea; Klein, Petra (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      he second Meteor Crater Experiment (METCRAX II) was conducted in October 2013 at Arizona?s Meteor Crater. The experiment was designed to investigate nighttime downslope windstorm?type flows that form regularly above the ...

    • Climate-Relevant Land Use and Land Cover Change Policies 

      Mahmood, Rezaul; Pielke, Roger A.; McAlpine, Clive A. (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      oth observational and modeling studies clearly demonstrate that land-use and land-cover change (LULCC) play an important biogeophysical and biogeochemical role in the climate system from the landscape to regional and even ...

    • Identifying and Quantifying Benefits of Meteorological Satellites 

      Brown, Molly E.; Wooldridge, Charles (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      he Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS) provides an international forum for the exchange of technical information on geostationary and polar-orbiting meteorological satellite systems. In 2013, the CMGS ...

    • An EF3 Multivortex Tornado over the Ionian Region: Is It Time for a Dedicated Warning System over Italy? 

      Miglietta, Mario Marcello; Rotunno, Richard (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      he possibility offered by the Internet to share pictures of tornadoes, and the storm-report archiving in the European Storm Weather Database, have made it apparent that the occurrence of tornadoes over Europe has been ...

    • Reanalyses and Observations: What’s the Difference? 

      Parker, Wendy S. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      re there important differences between reanalysis data and familiar observations and measurements? If so, what are they? This essay evaluates four possible answers that relate to: the role of inference, reliance on forecasts, ...

    • The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) 

      Jensen, M. P.; Petersen, W. A.; Bansemer, A.; Bharadwaj, N.; Carey, L. D.; Cecil, D. J.; Collis, S. M.; Del Genio, A. D.; Dolan, B.; Gerlach, J.; Giangrande, S. E.; Heymsfield, A.; Heymsfield, G.; Kollias, P.; Lang, T. J.; Nesbitt, S. W.; Neumann, A.; Poellot, M.; Rutledge, S. A.; Schwaller, M.; Tokay, A.; Williams, C. R.; Wolff, D. B.; Xie, S.; Zipser, E. J. (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      he Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E), a field program jointly led by the U.S. Department of Energy?s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program and the National Aeronautics and Space ...

    • Climate Variability and Change since 850 CE: An Ensemble Approach with the Community Earth System Model 

      Otto-Bliesner, Bette L.; Brady, Esther C.; Fasullo, John; Jahn, Alexandra; Landrum, Laura; Stevenson, Samantha; Rosenbloom, Nan; Mai, Andrew; Strand, Gary (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      he climate of the past millennium provides a baseline for understanding the background of natural climate variability upon which current anthropogenic changes are superimposed. As this period also contains high data density ...

    • New Ocean Winds Satellite Mission to Probe Hurricanes and Tropical Convection 

      Ruf, Christopher S.; Atlas, Robert; Chang, Paul S.; Clarizia, Maria Paola; Garrison, James L.; Gleason, Scott; Katzberg, Stephen J.; Jelenak, Zorana; Johnson, Joel T.; Majumdar, Sharanya J.; O’brien, Andrew; Posselt, Derek J.; Ridley, Aaron J.; Rose, Randall J.; Zavorotny, Valery U. (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      he Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) is a new NASA earth science mission scheduled to be launched in 2016 that focuses on tropical cyclones (TCs) and tropical convection. The mission?s two primary objectives ...

    • Twenty-First-Century Challenges in Regional Climate Modeling 

      Rummukainen, Markku; Rockel, Burkhardt; Bärring, Lars; Christensen, Jens Hesselbjerg; Reckermann, Marcus (American Meteorological Society, 2015)

    • Evolving Obs4MIPs to Support Phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) 

      Ferraro, Robert; Waliser, Duane E.; Gleckler, Peter; Taylor, Karl E.; Eyring, Veronika (American Meteorological Society, 2015)

    • Facilitating the Use of Drought Early Warning Information through Interactions with Agricultural Stakeholders 

      Otkin, Jason A.; Shafer, Mark; Svoboda, Mark; Wardlow, Brian; Anderson, Martha C.; Hain, Christopher; Basara, Jeffrey (American Meteorological Society, 2014)

    • CoCoRaHS: The Evolution and Accomplishments of a Volunteer Rain Gauge Network 

      Reges, Henry W.; Doesken, Nolan; Turner, Julian; Newman, Noah; Bergantino, Antony; Schwalbe, Zach (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      he Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS) is a large and growing community of volunteers measuring and reporting precipitation and is making this information broadly available for the research and ...

    • An Open Virtual Machine for Cross-Platform Weather Radar Science 

      Heistermann, M.; Collis, S.; Dixon, M. J.; Helmus, J. J.; Henja, A.; Michelson, D. B.; Pfaff, Thomas (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      n a recent BAMS article, it is argued that community-based Open Source Software (OSS) could foster scientific progress in weather radar research, and make weather radar software more affordable, flexible, transparent, ...

    • The Coastal Convective Interactions Experiment (CCIE): Understanding the Role of Sea Breezes for Hailstorm Hotspots in Eastern Australia 

      Soderholm, Joshua; McGowan, Hamish; Richter, Harald; Walsh, Kevin; Weckwerth, Tammy; Coleman, Matthew (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      hunderstorm-affected communities develop an awareness of ?hotspot? regions that historically experience more frequent or intense storm activity across many years. A scientifically based understanding of this localized ...

    • The USArray Transportable Array as a Platform for Weather Observation and Research 

      Tytell, Jonathan; Vernon, Frank; Hedlin, Michael; de Groot Hedlin, Catherine; Reyes, Juan; Busby, Bob; Hafner, Katrin; Eakins, Jennifer (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      he USArray Transportable Array (TA), a component of the National Science Foundation?s EarthScope Initiative, has proven to be a successful model for large-scale real-time monitoring networks. Approximately 400 stations are ...