Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • The Campaign on Atmospheric Aerosol Research Network of China: CARE-China 

      Xin, Jinyuan; Wang, Yuesi; Pan, Yuepeng; Ji, Dongsheng; Liu, Zirui; Wen, Tianxue; Wang, Yinghong; Li, Xingru; Sun, Yang; Sun, Jie; Wang, Pucai; Wang, Gehui; Wang, Xinming; Cong, Zhiyuan; Song, Tao; Hu, Bo; Wang, Lili; Tang, Guiqian; Gao, Wenkang; Guo, Yuhong; Miao, Hongyan; Tian, Shili; Wang, Lu (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      ased on a network of field stations belonging to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Campaign on Atmospheric Aerosol Research network of China (CARE-China) was recently established as the country?s first monitoring ...

    • Cold Extremes in North America vs. Mild Weather in Europe: The Winter of 2013–14 in the Context of a Warming World 

      Van Oldenborgh, Geert Jan; Haarsma, Rein; De Vries, Hylke; Allen, Myles R. (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      he winter of 2013?14 had unusual weather in many parts of the world. Here we analyze the cold extremes that were widely reported in North America and the lack of cold extremes in western Europe. We perform a statistical ...

    • An Integrated Damage, Visual, and Radar Analysis of the 2013 Moore, Oklahoma, EF5 Tornado 

      Atkins, Nolan T.; Butler, Kelly M.; Flynn, Kayla R.; Wakimoto, Roger M. (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      ated damage, visual, and radar analysis of the EF5 Moore, Oklahoma, tornado that occurred on 20 May 2013 is presented. Characteristics of the damage path are discussed based on detailed ground and aerial surveys. Tree fall ...

    • Sea Level Forecasts and Early-Warning Application: Expanding Cooperation in the South Pacific 

      Chowdhury, Md. Rashed; Chu, Pao-Shin (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      ecause of the need for information related to the variability and predictability of sea level on season-to-longer time scales, the Pacific ENSO Applications Climate (PEAC) Center runs the El Niño-Southern Oscillation ...

    • Causal Counterfactual Theory for the Attribution of Weather and Climate-Related Events 

      Hannart, A.; Pearl, J.; Otto, F. E. L.; Naveau, P.; Ghil, M. (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      he emergence of clear semantics for causal claims and of a sound logic for causal reasoning is relatively recent, with the consolidation over the past decades of a coherent theoretical corpus of definitions, concepts, and ...

    • On the Characteristics of and Processes Producing Winter Precipitation Types near 0°C 

      Stewart, Ronald E.; Thériault, Julie M.; Henson, William (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      his article examines the types of winter precipitation that occur near 0°C, specifically rain, freezing rain, freezing drizzle, ice pellets, snow pellets, and wet snow. It follows from a call by M. Ralph et al. for more ...

    • THORPEX Research and the Science of Prediction 

      Parsons, D. B.; Beland, M.; Burridge, D.; Bougeault, P.; Brunet, G.; Caughey, J.; Cavallo, S. M.; Charron, M.; Davies, H. C.; Niang, A. Diongue; Ducrocq, V.; Gauthier, P.; Hamill, T. M.; Harr, P. A.; Jones, S. C.; Langland, R. H.; Majumdar, S. J.; Mills, B. N.; Moncrieff, M.; Nakazawa, T.; Paccagnella, T.; Rabier, F.; Redelsperger, J.-L.; Riedel, C.; Saunders, R. W.; Shapiro, M. A.; Swinbank, R.; Szunyogh, I.; Thorncroft, C.; Thorpe, A. J.; Wang, X.; Waliser, D.; Wernli, H.; Toth, Z. (American Meteorological Society, 2016)
      he Observing System Research and Predictability Experiment (THORPEX) was a 10-yr, international research program organized by the World Meteorological Organization?s World Weather Research Program. THORPEX was motivated ...

    • Driving Blind: Weather-Related Vision Hazards and Fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes 

      Ashley, Walker S.; Strader, Stephen; Dziubla, Douglas C.; Haberlie, Alex (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      isibility-related weather hazards have significant impacts on motor vehicle operators because of decreased driver vision, reduced roadway speed, amplified speed variability, and elevated crash risk. This research presents ...

    • Mitigating the Impact of Severe Weather and Climate Variability through Innovative Sensing, Modeling, and Prediction 

      Yu, Tian-You; Parsons, David; Nakakita, Eiichi; Tsuda, Toshitaka; Ishikawa, Hirohiko (American Meteorological Society, 2014)

    • How Do Atmospheric Rivers Form? 

      Dacre, H. F.; Clark, P. A.; Martinez-Alvarado, O.; Stringer, M. A.; Lavers, D. A. (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      he term ?atmospheric river? is used to describe corridors of strong water vapor transport in the troposphere. Filaments of enhanced water vapor, commonly observed in satellite imagery extending from the subtropics to the ...

    • IWAL–An Interactive Weather Analysis Laboratory 

      Limbach, Sebastian; Sprenger, Michael; Schömer, Elmar; Wernli, Heini (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      omplementary key elements of meteorological education are the provision of a thorough theoretical understanding of the physical laws governing atmospheric motions, and the hands-on investigation and visualization of specific ...

    • The LatMix Summer Campaign: Submesoscale Stirring in the Upper Ocean 

      Shcherbina, Andrey Y.; Sundermeyer, Miles A.; Kunze, Eric; D’Asaro, Eric; Badin, Gualtiero; Birch, Daniel; Brunner-Suzuki, Anne-Marie E. G.; Callies, Jörn; Kuebel Cervantes, Brandy T.; Claret, Mariona; Concannon, Brian; Early, Jeffrey; Ferrari, Raffaele; Goodman, Louis; Harcourt, Ramsey R.; Klymak, Jody M.; Lee, Craig M.; Lelong, M.-Pascale; Levine, Murray D.; Lien, Ren-Chieh; Mahadevan, Amala; McWilliams, James C.; Molemaker, M. Jeroen; Mukherjee, Sonaljit; Nash, Jonathan D.; Özgökmen, Tamay; Pierce, Stephen D.; Ramachandran, Sanjiv; Samelson, Roger M.; Sanford, Thomas B.; Shearman, R. Kipp; Skyllingstad, Eric D.; Smith, K. Shafer; Tandon, Amit; Taylor, John R.; Terray, Eugene A.; Thomas, Leif N.; Ledwell, James R. (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      ateral stirring is a basic oceanographic phenomenon affecting the distribution of physical, chemical, and biological fields. Eddy stirring at scales on the order of 100 km (the mesoscale) is fairly well understood and ...

    • Positive Feedback in Climate: Stabilization or Runaway, Illustrated by a Simple Experiment 

      Dufresne, Jean-Louis; Saint-Lu, Marion (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      he response of the various climatic processes to climate change can amplify (positive feedback) or damp (negative feedback) the initial temperature perturbation. An example of a positive feedback is the surface albedo ...

    • Faster, Cheaper, and More Nimble: Improvements and Innovations in Publishing AMS Journals 

      Rauber, Robert M.; Heideman, Kenneth F. (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      can Meteorological Society (AMS) is committed to continually improving the total author and reader experience associated with AMS journals. This article discusses improvements to the peer-review process, reduction in ...

    • Global View Of Real-Time Trmm Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis: Implications For Its Successor Global Precipitation Measurement Mission 

      Yong, Bin; Liu, Die; Gourley, Jonathan J.; Tian, Yudong; Huffman, George J.; Ren, Liliang; Hong, Yang (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      ccurate estimation of high-resolution precipitation on the global scale is extremely challenging. The operational Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) has created over 16 ...

    • The Amundsen Sea Low: Variability, Change, and Impact on Antarctic Climate 

      Raphael, M. N.; Marshall, G. J.; Turner, J.; Fogt, R. L.; Schneider, D.; Dixon, D. A.; Hosking, J. S.; Jones, J. M.; Hobbs, W. R. (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      he Amundsen Sea low (ASL) is a climatological low pressure center that exerts considerable influence on the climate of West Antarctica. Its potential to explain important recent changes in Antarctic climate, for example, ...

    • Clouds in the Cloud: Weather Forecasts and Applications within Cloud Computing Environments 

      Molthan, Andrew L.; Case, Jonathan L.; Venner, Jason; Schroeder, Richard; Checchi, Milton R.; Zavodsky, Bradley T.; Limaye, Ashutosh; O’Brien, Raymond G. (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      loud computing offers new opportunities to the scientific community through cloud-deployed software, data-sharing and collaboration tools, and the use of cloud-based computing infrastructure to support data processing and ...

    • Real-Time Simulation of the GOES-R ABI for User Readiness and Product Evaluation 

      Greenwald, Thomas J.; Pierce, R. Bradley; Schaack, Todd; Otkin, Jason; Rogal, Marek; Bah, Kaba; Lenzen, Allen; Nelson, Jim; Li, Jun; Huang, Hung-Lung (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      n support of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R series (GOES-R) program, the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) at the University of Wisconsin?Madison is generating high ...

    • Solar Energy Prediction: An International Contest to Initiate Interdisciplinary Research on Compelling Meteorological Problems 

      McGovern, Amy; Gagne, David John; Basara, Jeffrey; Hamill, Thomas M.; Margolin, David (American Meteorological Society, 2015)

    • Theoretical Aspects of Variability and Predictability in Weather and Climate Systems 

      Yoden, Shigeo; Ishioka, Keiichi; Durran, Dale; Enomoto, Takeshi; Hayashi, Yoshi-Yuki; Miyoshi, Takemasa; Yamada, Michio (American Meteorological Society, 2014)