Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Analysis of an Observing System Experiment for the Joint Polar Satellite System 

      Lord, Stephen; Gayno, George; Yang, Fanglin (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      he Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) is a key contributor to the next-generation operational polar-orbiting satellite observing system. In the JPSS era, the complete polar-orbiting observing system will be composed of ...

    • A Decade of Spaceborne Observations of the Arctic Atmosphere: Novel Insights from NASA’s AIRS Instrument 

      Devasthale, Abhay; Sedlar, Joseph; Kahn, Brian H.; Tjernström, Michael; Fetzer, Eric J.; Tian, Baijun; Teixeira, Joao; Pagano, Thomas S. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      rctic sea ice is declining rapidly and its annual ice extent minima reached record lows twice during the last decade. Large environmental and socioeconomic implications related to sea ice reduction in a warming world ...

    • On the Impact and Future Benefits of AMDAR Observations in Operational Forecasting: Part II: Water Vapor Observations 

      Petersen, Ralph Alvin; Cronce, Lee; Mamrosh, Richard; Baker, Randy; Pauley, Patricia (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      lthough wind and temperature observations from commercial aircraft have been shown to improve operational numerical weather prediction (NWP) on global and regional scales, the quality and potential importance of newly ...

    • Tokyo Metropolitan Area Convection Study for Extreme Weather Resilient Cities 

      Nakatani, Tsuyoshi; Misumi, Ryohei; Shoji, Yoshinori; Saito, Kazuo; Seko, Hiromu; Seino, Naoko; Suzuki, Shin-ichi; Shusse, Yukari; Maesaka, Takeshi; Sugawara, Hirofumi (American Meteorological Society, 2015)

    • The Causes of Foehn Warming in the Lee of Mountains 

      Elvidge, Andrew D.; Renfrew, Ian A. (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      he foehn effect is well known as the warming, drying, and cloud clearance experienced on the lee side of mountain ranges during ?flow over? conditions. Foehn flows were first described more than a century ago when two ...

    • ASIRI: An Ocean–Atmosphere Initiative for Bay of Bengal 

      Wijesekera, Hemantha W.; Shroyer, Emily; Tandon, Amit; Ravichandran, M.; Sengupta, Debasis; Jinadasa, S. U. P.; Fernando, Harindra J. S.; Agrawal, Neeraj; Arulananthan, K.; Bhat, G. S.; Baumgartner, Mark; Buckley, Jared; Centurioni, Luca; Conry, Patrick; Farrar, J. Thomas; Gordon, Arnold L.; Hormann, Verena; Jarosz, Ewa; Jensen, Tommy G.; Johnston, Shaun; Lankhorst, Matthias; Lee, Craig M.; Leo, Laura S.; Lozovatsky, Iossif; Lucas, Andrew J.; Mackinnon, Jennifer; Mahadevan, Amala; Nash, Jonathan; Omand, Melissa M.; Pham, Hieu; Pinkel, Robert; Rainville, Luc; Ramachandran, Sanjiv; Rudnick, Daniel L.; Sarkar, Sutanu; Send, Uwe; Sharma, Rashmi; Simmons, Harper; Stafford, Kathleen M.; St. Laurent, Louis; Venayagamoorthy, Karan; Venkatesan, Ramasamy; Teague, William J.; Wang, David W.; Waterhouse, Amy F.; Weller, Robert; Whalen, Caitlin B. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      ir?Sea Interactions in the Northern Indian Ocean (ASIRI) is an international research effort (2013?17) aimed at understanding and quantifying coupled atmosphere?ocean dynamics of the Bay of Bengal (BoB) with relevance to ...

    • BAECC: A Field Campaign to Elucidate the Impact of Biogenic Aerosols on Clouds and Climate 

      Petäjä, Tuukka; O’Connor, Ewan J.; Moisseev, Dmitri; Sinclair, Victoria A.; Manninen, Antti J.; Väänänen, Riikka; von Lerber, Annakaisa; Thornton, Joel A.; Nicoll, Keri; Petersen, Walt; Chandrasekar, V.; Smith, James N.; Winkler, Paul M.; Krüger, Olaf; Hakola, Hannele; Timonen, Hilkka; Brus, David; Laurila, Tuomas; Asmi, Eija; Riekkola, Marja-Liisa; Mona, Lucia; Massoli, Paola; Engelmann, Ronny; Komppula, Mika; Wang, Jian; Kuang, Chongai; Bäck, Jaana; Virtanen, Annele; Levula, Janne; Ritsche, Michael; Hickmon, Nicki (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      uring Biogenic Aerosols?Effects on Clouds and Climate (BAECC), the U.S. Department of Energy?s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program deployed the Second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2) to Hyytiälä, Finland, for an ...

    • Planning the Next Decade of Coordinated U.S. Research on Minutes-to-Seasonal Prediction of High-Impact Weather 

      Majumdar, Sharanya J.; Chang, Edmund K. M.; Peña, Malaquías; Tatusko, Renee; Toth, Zoltan (American Meteorological Society, 2014)

    • Where Are the Lightning Hotspots on Earth? 

      Albrecht, Rachel I.; Goodman, Steven J.; Buechler, Dennis E.; Blakeslee, Richard J.; Christian, Hugh J. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      revious total lightning climatology studies using Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) observations were reported at coarse resolution (0.5°) and employed significant spatial and temporal ...

    • Improving Flash Flood Forecasts: The HMT-WPC Flash Flood and Intense Rainfall Experiment 

      Barthold, Faye E.; Workoff, Thomas E.; Cosgrove, Brian A.; Gourley, Jonathan J.; Novak, David R.; Mahoney, Kelly M. (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      espite advancements in numerical modeling and the increasing prevalence of convection-allowing guidance, flash flood forecasting remains a substantial challenge. Accurate flash flood forecasts depend not only on accurate ...

    • S4: An O2R/R2O Infrastructure for Optimizing Satellite Data Utilization in NOAA Numerical Modeling Systems: A Step Toward Bridging the Gap between Research and Operations 

      Boukabara, Sid A.; Zhu, Tong; Tolman, Hendrik L.; Lord, Steve; Goodman, Steven; Atlas, Robert; Goldberg, Mitch; Auligne, Thomas; Pierce, Bradley; Cucurull, Lidia; Zupanski, Milija; Zhang, Man; Moradi, Isaac; Otkin, Jason; Santek, David; Hoover, Brett; Pu, Zhaoxia; Zhan, Xiwu; Hain, Christopher; Kalnay, Eugenia; Hotta, Daisuke; Nolin, Scott; Bayler, Eric; Mehra, Avichal; Casey, Sean P. F.; Lindsey, Daniel; Grasso, Louie; Kumar, V. Krishna; Powell, Alfred; Xu, Jianjun; Greenwald, Thomas; Zajic, Joe; Li, Jun; Li, Jinliong; Li, Bin; Liu, Jicheng; Fang, Li; Wang, Pei; Chen, Tse-Chun (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      n 2011, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) began a cooperative initiative with the academic community to help address a vexing issue that has long been known as a disconnection between the operational ...

    • Summary of the Fourth Cloud Retrieval Evaluation Workshop 

      Roebeling, Rob; Baum, Bryan; Bennartz, Ralf; Hamann, Ulrich; Heidinger, Andrew; Meirink, Jan Fokke; Stengel, Martin; Thoss, Anke; Walther, Andi; Watts, Phil (American Meteorological Society, 2014)

    • Reduced Risk of North American Cold Extremes due to Continued Arctic Sea Ice Loss 

      Screen, James A.; Deser, Clara; Sun, Lantao (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      n early January 2014, an Arctic air outbreak brought extreme cold and heavy snowfall to central and eastern North America, causing widespread disruption and monetary losses. The media extensively reported the cold snap, ...

    • Capturing and Sharing Our Collective Expertise on Climate Data: The CHARMe Project 

      Clifford, Debbie; Alegre, Raquel; Bennett, Victoria; Blower, Jon; Deluca, Cecelia; Kershaw, Philip; Lynnes, Christopher; Mattmann, Chris; Phipps, Rhona; Rozum, Iryna (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      or users of climate services, the ability to quickly determine the datasets that best fit one?s needs would be invaluable. The volume, variety, and complexity of climate data makes this judgment difficult. The ambition of ...

    • Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) Quantitative Precipitation Estimation: Initial Operating Capabilities 

      Zhang, Jian; Howard, Kenneth; Langston, Carrie; Kaney, Brian; Qi, Youcun; Tang, Lin; Grams, Heather; Wang, Yadong; Cocks, Stephen; Martinaitis, Steven; Arthur, Ami; Cooper, Karen; Brogden, Jeff; Kitzmiller, David (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      apid advancements of computer technologies in recent years made the real-time transferring and integration of high-volume, multisource data at a centralized location a possibility. The Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) system ...

    • Low-Atmosphere Drifting Balloons: Platforms for Environment Monitoring and Forecast Improvement 

      Doerenbecher, A.; Basdevant, C.; Drobinski, P.; Durand, P.; Fesquet, C.; Bernard, F.; Cocquerez, P.; Verdier, N.; Vargas, A. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      alloons are one of the key observing platforms for the atmosphere. Radiosounding is the most commonly used technique and provides over a thousand vertical profiles worldwide every day. These data represent an essential ...

    • Med-CORDEX Initiative for Mediterranean Climate Studies 

      Ruti, P. M.; Somot, S.; Giorgi, F.; Dubois, C.; Flaounas, E.; Obermann, A.; Dell’Aquila, A.; Pisacane, G.; Harzallah, A.; Lombardi, E.; Ahrens, B.; Akhtar, N.; Alias, A.; Arsouze, T.; Aznar, R.; Bastin, S.; Bartholy, J.; Béranger, K.; Beuvier, J.; Bouffies-Cloché, S.; Brauch, J.; Cabos, W.; Calmanti, S.; Calvet, J.-C.; Carillo, A.; Conte, D.; Coppola, E.; Djurdjevic, V.; Drobinski, P.; Elizalde-Arellano, A.; Gaertner, M.; Galàn, P.; Gallardo, C.; Gualdi, S.; Goncalves, M.; Jorba, O.; Jordà, G.; L’Heveder, B.; Lebeaupin-Brossier, C.; Li, L.; Liguori, G.; Lionello, P.; Maciàs, D.; Nabat, P.; Önol, B.; Raikovic, B.; Ramage, K.; Sevault, F.; Sannino, G.; Struglia, M. V.; Sanna, A.; Torma, C.; Vervatis, V. (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      he Mediterranean is expected to be one of the most prominent and vulnerable climate change ?hotspots? of the twenty-first century, and the physical mechanisms underlying this finding are still not clear. Furthermore, complex ...

    • Validating Atmospheric Reanalysis Data using Tropical Cyclones as Thermometers 

      Kossin, James P. (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      emperatures in the upper troposphere of the atmosphere, near the tropopause, play a key role in the evolution of tropical cyclones (TC) by controlling their potential intensity (PI), which describes the thermodynamically ...

    • Impacts of Climate Extremes in Brazil: The Development of a Web Platform for Understanding Long-Term Sustainability of Ecosystems and Human Health in Amazonia (PULSE-Brazil) 

      Marengo, Jose A.; Aragão, Luiz E.O.C.; Cox, Peter M.; Betts, Richard; Costa, Duarte; Kaye, Neil; Smith, Lauren T.; Alves, Lincoln M.; Reis, Vera (American Meteorological Society, 2016)

    • The Earth System Prediction Suite: Toward a Coordinated U.S. Modeling Capability 

      Theurich, Gerhard; DeLuca, C.; Campbell, T.; Liu, F.; Saint, K.; Vertenstein, M.; Chen, J.; Oehmke, R.; Doyle, J.; Whitcomb, T.; Wallcraft, A.; Iredell, M.; Black, T.; Da Silva, A. M.; Clune, T.; Ferraro, R.; Li, P.; Kelley, M.; Aleinov, I.; Balaji, V.; Zadeh, N.; Jacob, R.; Kirtman, B.; Giraldo, F.; McCarren, D.; Sandgathe, S.; Peckham, S.; Dunlap, R. (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      he Earth System Prediction Suite (ESPS) is a collection of flagship U.S. weather and climate models and model components that are being instrumented to conform to interoperability conventions, documented to follow metadata ...