Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions
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Comments on “Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge”
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The Role of Multiple-Vortex Tornado Structure in Causing Storm Researcher Fatalities
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)nd violent tornado/multiple-vortex mesocyclone (MVMC) tracked east and northeastward near El Reno, Oklahoma, on 31 May 2013, causing eight fatalities, including storm chasers/researchers attempting to deploy in situ ... -
Eye Tracking: Evaluating the Impact of Gesturing during Televised Weather Forecasts
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)elevised media is one of the most frequently accessed sources of weather information. The local weathercaster is the link between weather information and the public, and as such weathercaster characteristics, from vocal ... -
Urban Integrated Meteorological Observations: Practice and Experience in Shanghai, China
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)bservations of atmospheric conditions and processes in cities are fundamental to understanding the interactions between the urban surface and weather/climate, improving the performance of urban weather, air quality, and ... -
A Long-Term, High-Quality, High-Vertical-Resolution GPS Dropsonde Dataset for Hurricane and Other Studies
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)GPS dropsonde is a scientific instrument deployed from research and operational aircraft that descends through the atmosphere by a parachute. The dropsonde provides high-quality, high-vertical-resolution profiles of ... -
Decadal Climate Variability and Cross-Scale Interactions: ICCL 2013 Expert Assessment Workshop
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Integration of Undergraduate Education and Field Campaigns: A Case Study from Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)raduate course was taught at the University of North Dakota (UND) that examined the objectives and motivation of the Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) field campaign. The course included discussions about particular ... -
Rapid Refresh Information of Significant Events: Preparing Users for the Next Generation of Geostationary Operational Satellites
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-14 (GOES-14) imager was operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in an experimental rapid scan 1-min mode during parts of the summers of ... -
Storm Evader: Using an iPad to Teach Kids about Meteorology and Technology
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)e have developed and released an iPad application, Storm Evader, to demonstrate to youth how technology can be used as a tool and to teach youth about weather and its impact on real-world activities, including flying. As ... -
Aircraft Observations of Dry Air, the ITCZ, Convective Cloud Systems, and Cold Pools in MJO during DYNAMO
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)ne of the most challenging problems in predicting the Madden?Julian oscillation (MJO) is the initiation of large-scale convective activity associated with the MJO over the tropical Indian Ocean. The lack of observations ... -
Blown Away: Interns Experience Science, Research, and Life on Top of Mount Washington
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)ith extreme winds, rapidly changing weather, and myriad weather conditions during any given month, Mount Washington, New Hampshire (1,917 m MSL), is an ideal location to observe and learn about atmospheric sciences. During ... -
The Birmingham Urban Climate Laboratory: An Open Meteorological Test Bed and Challenges of the Smart City
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he Birmingham Urban Climate Laboratory (BUCL) is a near-real-time, high-resolution urban meteorological network (UMN) of automatic weather stations and inexpensive, nonstandard air temperature sensors. The network has ... -
Improving Storm Surge Risk Communication: Stakeholder Perspectives
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)torm surge associated with tropical and extratropical cyclones has a long history of causing death and destruction along our coastlines. With more than 123 million people living in coastal shoreline areas and much of the ... -
Web-Based Reanalysis Intercomparison Tools (WRIT) for Analysis and Comparison of Reanalyses and Other Datasets
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)ospheric reanalysis datasets are widely used in climate science, many technical issues hinder comparing them to each other and to observations. The reanalysis fields are stored in diverse file architectures, data formats, ... -
Rethinking the Default Construction of Multimodel Climate Ensembles
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)e discuss the current code of practice in the climate sciences to routinely create climate model ensembles as ensembles of opportunity from the newest phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). We give a ... -
Surface Pressure Observations from Smartphones: A Potential Revolution for High-Resolution Weather Prediction?
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)of smartphones possess relatively accurate pressure sensors and the expectation is that these numbers will grow into the hundreds of millions globally during the next few years. The availability of millions of pressure ... -
NOAA Local Climate Analysis Tool (LCAT): Data, Methods, and Usability
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)OAA?s NWS implemented the new Local Climate Analysis Tool (LCAT) on 1 July 2013. The tool supports the delivery of climate services by quickly providing information to help with climate-sensitive decisions and to facilitate ... -
Solar Cooking in the Sahel
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)kers have the potential to help many of the world's poorest people, but the availability of sunshine is critical, with clouds or heavy atmospheric dust loads preventing cooking. Using wood for cooking leads to deforestation ... -
Real-Time Applications of the Variational Version of the Local Analysis and Prediction System (vLAPS)
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he accurate and timely depiction of the state of the atmosphere on multiple scales is critical to enhance forecaster situational awareness and to initialize very short-range numerical forecasts in support of nowcasting ... -
The TIGGE Project and Its Achievements
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he International Grand Global Ensemble (TIGGE) was a major component of The Observing System Research and Predictability Experiment (THORPEX) research program, whose aim is to accelerate improvements in forecasting high-impact ...