Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • The North American Soil Moisture Database: Development and Applications 

      Quiring, Steven M.; Ford, Trent W.; Wang, Jessica K.; Khong, Angela; Harris, Elizabeth; Lindgren, Terra; Goldberg, Daniel W.; Li, Zhongxia (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      oil moisture is an important variable in the climate system that integrates the combined influence of the atmosphere, land surface, and soil. Soil moisture is frequently used for drought monitoring and climate forecasting. ...

    • The Community Earth System Model (CESM) Large Ensemble Project: A Community Resource for Studying Climate Change in the Presence of Internal Climate Variability 

      Kay, J. E.; Deser, C.; Phillips, A.; Mai, A.; Hannay, C.; Strand, G.; Arblaster, J. M.; Bates, S. C.; Danabasoglu, G.; Edwards, J.; Holland, M.; Kushner, P.; Lamarque, J.-F.; Lawrence, D.; Lindsay, K.; Middleton, A.; Munoz, E.; Neale, R.; Oleson, K.; Polvani, L.; Vertenstein, M. (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      hile internal climate variability is known to affect climate projections, its influence is often underappreciated and confused with model error. Why? In general, modeling centers contribute a small number of realizations ...

    • Revisiting the 26.5°C Sea Surface Temperature Threshold for Tropical Cyclone Development 

      McTaggart-Cowan, Ron; Davies, Emily L.; Fairman, Jonathan G.; Galarneau, Thomas J.; Schultz, David M. (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      high sea surface temperature is generally accepted to be one of the necessary ingredients for tropical cyclone development, indicative of the potential for surface heat and moisture fluxes capable of fueling a self-sustaining ...

    • NCAR’s Summer Colloquium: Capacity Building in Cross-Disciplinary Research of Earth System Carbon–Climate Connections 

      Bracco, Annalisa; Long, Matthew C.; Levine, Naomi M.; Thomas, R. Quinn; Deutsch, Curtis; McKinley, Galen A. (American Meteorological Society, 2015)

    • Tornadoes in the Central United States and the “Clash of Air Masses” 

      Schultz, David M.; Richardson, Yvette P.; Markowski, Paul M.; Doswell, Charles A. (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      nado outbreaks or individual violent tornadoes occur in the central United States, media stories often attribute the location, number, or intensity of tornadoes to the ?clash of air masses? between warm tropical air and ...

    • International Climate Assessment & Dataset: Climate Services across Borders 

      Van Den Besselaar, Else J. M.; Klein Tank, Albert M. G.; Van Der Schrier, Gerard; Abass, Mariama S.; Baddour, Omar; Van Engelen, Aryan F.V.; Freire, Andrea; Hechler, Peer; Laksono, Bayu Imbang; Iqbal; Jilderda, Rudmer; Foamouhoue, Andre Kamga; Kattenberg, Arie; Leander, Robert; Güingla, Rodney Martínez; Mhanda, Albert S.; Nieto, Juan José; Sunaryo; Suwondo, Aris; Swarinoto, Yunus S.; Verver, Gé (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      he International Climate Assessment & Dataset (ICA&D) concept provides climate services on a regional scale for users in participating countries and the broader scientific community. It builds on the expertise gained in ...

    • Using Citizen Science Reports to Evaluate Estimates of Surface Precipitation Type 

      Chen, Sheng; Gourley, Jonathan J.; Hong, Yang; Cao, Qing; Carr, Nicholas; Kirstetter, Pierre-Emmanuel; Zhang, Jian; Flamig, Zac (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      n meteorological investigations, the reference variable or ?ground truth? typically comes from an instrument. This study uses human observations of surface precipitation types to evaluate the same variables that are estimated ...

    • Bridging Research to Operations Transitions: Status and Plans of Community GSI 

      Shao, Hui; Derber, John; Huang, Xiang-Yu; Hu, Ming; Newman, Kathryn; Stark, Donald; Lueken, Michael; Zhou, Chunhua; Nance, Louisa; Kuo, Ying-Hwa; Brown, Barbara (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      ith a goal of improving operational numerical weather prediction (NWP), the Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) has been working with operational centers, including, among others, the National Centers for Environmental ...

    • Hurricanes and Climate: The U.S. CLIVAR Working Group on Hurricanes 

      Walsh, Kevin J. E.; Camargo, Suzana J.; Vecchi, Gabriel A.; Daloz, Anne Sophie; Elsner, James; Emanuel, Kerry; Horn, Michael; Lim, Young-Kwon; Roberts, Malcolm; Patricola, Christina; Scoccimarro, Enrico; Sobel, Adam H.; Strazzo, Sarah; Villarini, Gabriele; Wehner, Michael; Zhao, Ming; Kossin, James P.; LaRow, Tim; Oouchi, Kazuyoshi; Schubert, Siegfried; Wang, Hui; Bacmeister, Julio; Chang, Ping; Chauvin, Fabrice; Jablonowski, Christiane; Kumar, Arun; Murakami, Hiroyuki; Ose, Tomoaki; Reed, Kevin A.; Saravanan, Ramalingam; Yamada, Yohei; Zarzycki, Colin M.; Vidale, Pier Luigi; Jonas, Jeffrey A.; Henderson, Naomi (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      hile a quantitative climate theory of tropical cyclone formation remains elusive, considerable progress has been made recently in our ability to simulate tropical cyclone climatologies and to understand the relationship ...

    • The Great Colorado Flood of September 2013 

      Gochis, David; Schumacher, Russ; Friedrich, Katja; Doesken, Nolan; Kelsch, Matt; Sun, Juanzhen; Ikeda, Kyoko; Lindsey, Daniel; Wood, Andy; Dolan, Brenda; Matrosov, Sergey; Newman, Andrew; Mahoney, Kelly; Rutledge, Steven; Johnson, Richard; Kucera, Paul; Kennedy, Pat; Sempere-Torres, Daniel; Steiner, Matthias; Roberts, Rita; Wilson, Jim; Yu, Wei; Chandrasekar, V.; Rasmussen, Roy; Anderson, Amanda; Brown, Barbara (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      uring the second week of September 2013, a seasonally uncharacteristic weather pattern stalled over the Rocky Mountain Front Range region of northern Colorado bringing with it copious amounts of moisture from the Gulf of ...

    • The Emergence of Open-Source Software for the Weather Radar Community 

      Heistermann, M.; Collis, S.; Dixon, M. J.; Giangrande, S.; Helmus, J. J.; Kelley, B.; Koistinen, J.; Michelson, D. B.; Peura, M.; Pfaff, T.; Wolff, D. B. (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      eather radar analysis has become increasingly sophisticated over the past 50 years, and efforts to keep software up to date have generally lagged behind the needs of the users. We argue that progress has been impeded by ...

    • Cloud Banding and Winds in Intense European Cyclones: Results from the DIAMET Project 

      Vaughan, G.; Methven, J.; Anderson, D.; Antonescu, B.; Baker, L.; Baker, T. P.; Ballard, S. P.; Bower, K. N.; Brown, P. R. A.; Chagnon, J.; Choularton, T. W.; Chylik, J.; Connolly, P. J.; Cook, P. A.; Cotton, R. J.; Crosier, J.; Dearden, C.; Dorsey, J. R.; Frame, T. H. A.; Gallagher, M. W.; Goodliff, M.; Gray, S. L.; Harvey, B. J.; Knippertz, P.; Lean, H. W.; Li, D.; Lloyd, G.; Martínez–Alvarado, O.; Nicol, J.; Norris, J.; Öström, E.; Owen, J.; Parker, D. J.; Plant, R. S.; Renfrew, I. A.; Roberts, N. M.; Rosenberg, P.; Rudd, A. C.; Schultz, D. M.; Taylor, J. P.; Trzeciak, T.; Tubbs, R.; Vance, A. K.; van Leeuwen, P. J.; Wellpott, A.; Woolley, A. (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      he Diabatic Influences on Mesoscale Structures in Extratropical Storms (DIAMET) project aims to improve forecasts of high-impact weather in extratropical cyclones through field measurements, high-resolution numerical ...

    • Reply to “Comments on ‘Analogies of Ocean/Atmosphere Rotating Fluid Dynamics with Gyroscopes: Teaching Opportunities’” 

      Haine, Thomas W. N.; Cherian, D. A. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)

    • The Atlantic Overturning Circulation: More Evidence of Variability and Links to Climate 

      Carton, James A.; Cunningham, Stuart A.; Frajka-Williams, Eleanor; Kwon, Young-Oh; Marshall, David P.; Msadek, Rym (American Meteorological Society, 2014)

    • HErZ: The German Hans-Ertel Centre for Weather Research 

      Simmer, Clemens; Adrian, Gerhard; Jones, Sarah; Wirth, Volkmar; Göber, Martin; Hohenegger, Cathy; Janjic´, Tijana; Keller, Jan; Ohlwein, Christian; Seifert, Axel; Trömel, Silke; Ulbrich, Thorsten; Wapler, Kathrin; Weissmann, Martin; Keller, Julia; Masbou, Matthieu; Meilinger, Stefanie; Riß, Nicole; Schomburg, Annika; Vormann, Arnd; Weingärtner, Christa (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      n 2011, the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development laid the foundation of the Hans-Ertel Centre for Weather Research [Hans-Ertel-Zentrum für Wetterforschung (HErZ)] in order to better connect ...

    • Predicting Hurricane Intensity and Associated Hazards: A Five-Year Real-Time Forecast Experiment with Assimilation of Airborne Doppler Radar Observations 

      Zhang, Fuqing; Weng, Yonghui (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      erformance in the prediction of hurricane intensity and associated hazards has been evaluated for a newly developed convection-permitting forecast system that uses ensemble data assimilation techniques to ingest high-resolution ...

    • Natural Gas Prices and the Extreme Winters of 2011/12 and 2013/14: Causes, Indicators, and Interactions 

      Schreck, Carl J.; Bennett, Stephen; Cordeira, Jason M.; Crouch, Jake; Dissen, Jenny; Lang, Andrea L.; Margolin, David; O’Shay, Adam; Rennie, Jared; Schneider, Thomas Ian; Ventrice, Michael J. (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      Day-to-day volatility in natural gas markets is driven largely by variability in heating demand, which is in turn dominated by cool-season temperature anomalies over the northeastern quadrant of the United States ...

    • Issues and Challenges with Using Ensemble-Based Prediction to Probe the Weather–Climate Interface 

      Cornuelle, Bruce; Hansen, James; Kirtman, Benjamin; Sandgathe, Scott; Warren, Steve (American Meteorological Society, 2014)

    • The Influence of Consequence-Based Messages on Public Responses to Tornado Warnings 

      Ripberger, Joseph T.; Silva, Carol L.; Jenkins-Smith, Hank C.; James, Mark (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      he Central Region Headquarters of the National Weather Service (NWS) recently launched an experimental product that supplements traditional tornado and severe thunderstorm warning products with information about the potential ...

    • Challenges in Quantifying Changes in the Global Water Cycle 

      Hegerl, Gabriele C.; Black, Emily; Allan, Richard P.; Ingram, William J.; Polson, Debbie; Trenberth, Kevin E.; Chadwick, Robin S.; Arkin, Phillip A.; Sarojini, Beena Balan; Becker, Andreas; Dai, Aiguo; Durack, Paul J.; Easterling, David; Fowler, Hayley J.; Kendon, Elizabeth J.; Huffman, George J.; Liu, Chunlei; Marsh, Robert; New, Mark; Osborn, Timothy J.; Skliris, Nikolaos; Stott, Peter A.; Vidale, Pier-Luigi; Wijffels, Susan E.; Wilcox, Laura J.; Willett, Kate M.; Zhang, Xuebin (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      nderstanding observed changes to the global water cycle is key to predicting future climate changes and their impacts. While many datasets document crucial variables such as precipitation, ocean salinity, runoff, and ...