Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Clouds, Aerosols, and Precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer: An Arm Mobile Facility Deployment 

      Wood, Robert; Wyant, Matthew; Bretherton, Christopher S.; Rémillard, Jasmine; Kollias, Pavlos; Fletcher, Jennifer; Stemmler, Jayson; de Szoeke, Simone; Yuter, Sandra; Miller, Matthew; Mechem, David; Tselioudis, George; Chiu, J. Christine; Mann, Julian A. L.; O’Connor, Ewan J.; Hogan, Robin J.; Dong, Xiquan; Miller, Mark; Ghate, Virendra; Jefferson, Anne; Min, Qilong; Minnis, Patrick; Palikonda, Rabindra; Albrecht, Bruce; Luke, Ed; Hannay, Cecile; Lin, Yanluan (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      he Clouds, Aerosol, and Precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer (CAP-MBL) deployment at Graciosa Island in the Azores generated a 21-month (April 2009?December 2010) comprehensive dataset documenting clouds, aerosols, ...

    • Crossing the “Valley of Death”: Lessons Learned from Implementing an Operational Satellite-Based Flood Forecasting System 

      Hossain, Faisal; Siddique-E-Akbor, A. H. M.; Yigzaw, Wondmagegn; Shah-Newaz, Sardar; Hossain, Monowar; Mazumder, Liton Chandra; Ahmed, Tanvir; Shum, C. K.; Lee, Hyongki; Biancamaria, Sylvain; Turk, Francis J.; Limaye, Ashutosh (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      a decade ago, a National Research Council (NRC) report popularized the term ?valley of death? to describe the region where research on weather satellites had struggled to reach maturity for societal applications. A similar ...

    • Toward Quantifying the Increasing Role of Oceanic Heat in Sea Ice Loss in the New Arctic 

      Carmack, E.; Polyakov, I.; Padman, L.; Fer, I.; Hunke, E.; Hutchings, J.; Jackson, J.; Kelley, D.; Kwok, R.; Layton, C.; Melling, H.; Perovich, D.; Persson, O.; Ruddick, B.; Timmermans, M.-L.; Toole, J.; Ross, T.; Vavrus, S.; Winsor, P. (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      he loss of Arctic sea ice has emerged as a leading signal of global warming. This, together with acknowledged impacts on other components of the Earth system, has led to the term ?the new Arctic.? Global coupled climate ...

    • The California State University Mobile Atmospheric Profiling System: A Facility for Research and Education in Boundary Layer Meteorology 

      Clements, Craig B.; Oliphant, Andrew J. (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      ornia State University Mobile Atmospheric Profiling System (CSU-MAPS) is a shared facility between San Francisco and San José State Universities providing researchers and students state-of-the-art atmospheric profiling ...

    • Harnessing the Environmental Data Flood: A Comparative Analysis of Hydrologic, Oceanographic, and Meteorological Informatics Platforms 

      Dow, Andrew K.; Dow, Eli M.; Fitzsimmons, Thomas D.; Materise, Maurice M. (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      Researchers studying large-scale questions in hydrology, oceanography, and meteorology can work with existing data through myriad platforms that provide access to remote datasets and render said information in various ...

    • The Amazon Dense GNSS Meteorological Network: A New Approach for Examining Water Vapor and Deep Convection Interactions in the Tropics 

      Adams, David K.; Fernandes, Rui M. S.; Holub, Kirk L.; Gutman, Seth I.; Barbosa, Henrique M. J.; Machado, Luiz A. T.; Calheiros, Alan J. P.; Bennett, Richard A.; Kursinski, E. Robert; Sapucci, Luiz F.; DeMets, Charles; Chagas, Glayson F. B.; Arellano, Ave; Filizola, Naziano; Amorim Rocha, Alciélio A.; Silva, Rosimeire Araújo; Assunção, Lilia M. F.; Cirino, Glauber G.; Pauliquevis, Theotonio; Portela, Bruno T. T.; Sá, André; de Sousa, Jeanne M.; Tanaka, Ludmila M. S. (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      he complex interactions between water vapor fields and deep atmospheric convection remain one of the outstanding problems in tropical meteorology. The lack of high spatial?temporal resolution, all-weather observations in ...

    • Defining Sudden Stratospheric Warmings 

      Butler, Amy H.; Seidel, Dian J.; Hardiman, Steven C.; Butchart, Neal; Birner, Thomas; Match, Aaron (American Meteorological Society, 2015)
      udden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) are large, rapid temperature rises in the winter polar stratosphere, occurring predominantly in the Northern Hemisphere. Major SSWs are also associated with a reversal of the climatological ...

    • Agricultural Stakeholder Views on Climate Change: Implications for Conducting Research and Outreach 

      Prokopy, Linda Stalker; Morton, Lois Wright; Arbuckle, J. Gordon; Mase, Amber Saylor; Wilke, Adam K. (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      nderstanding U.S. agricultural stakeholder views about the existence of climate change and its causes is central to developing interventions in support of adaptation and mitigation. Results from surveys conducted with six ...

    • The Atacama Surface Solar Maximum 

      Rondanelli, Roberto; Molina, Alejandra; Falvey, Mark (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      olar radiation reaching Earth?s surface is one of the major drivers of climate dynamics. By setting the surface energy balance, downwelling solar radiation indirectly heats the atmosphere and controls the hydrological ...

    • AEROgui: A Graphical User Interface for the Optical Properties of Aerosols 

      Pedrós, R.; Gómez-Amo, J.L.; Marcos, C.R.; Utrillas, M.P.; Gandía, S.; Tena, F.; Lozano, J.A. Martinez (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      ic aerosols have an uncertain effect on climate and serious impacts on human health. The uncertainty in the aerosols' role on climate has several sources. First, aerosols have great spatial and temporal variability. The ...

    • The Global Precipitation Measurement Mission 

      Hou, Arthur Y.; Kakar, Ramesh K.; Neeck, Steven; Azarbarzin, Ardeshir A.; Kummerow, Christian D.; Kojima, Masahiro; Oki, Riko; Nakamura, Kenji; Iguchi, Toshio (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      tion affects many aspects of our everyday life. It is the primary source of freshwater and has significant socioeconomic impacts resulting from natural hazards such as hurricanes, floods, droughts, and landslides. ...

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

      Gluhovsky, Alexander; Tong, Christopher (American Meteorological Society, 2013)

    • The High-Level Meeting on National Drought Policy 

      Sivakumar, M. V. K.; Wilhite, Donald A.; Pulwarty, Roger S.; Stefanski, Robert (American Meteorological Society, 2013)

    • Quantifying Emerging Local Anthropogenic Emissions in the Arctic Region: The ACCESS Aircraft Campaign Experiment 

      Roiger, A.; Thomas, J.-L.; Schlager, H.; Law, K. S.; Kim, J.; Schäfler, A.; Weinzierl, B.; Dahlkötter, F.; Krisch, I.; Marelle, L.; Minikin, A.; Raut, J.-C.; Reiter, A.; Rose, M.; Scheibe, M.; Stock, P.; Baumann, R.; Bouarar, I.; Clerbaux, C.; George, M.; Onishi, T.; Flemming, J. (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      rctic sea ice has decreased dramatically in the past few decades and the Arctic is increasingly open to transit shipping and natural resource extraction. However, large knowledge gaps exist regarding composition and impacts ...

    • Adjustments in the Forcing-Feedback Framework for Understanding Climate Change 

      Sherwood, Steven C.; Bony, Sandrine; Boucher, Olivier; Bretherton, Chris; Forster, Piers M.; Gregory, Jonathan M.; Stevens, Bjorn (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      he traditional forcing?feedback framework has provided an indispensable basis for discussing global climate changes. However, as analysis of model behavior has become more detailed, shortcomings and ambiguities in the ...

    • Cyclone Center: Can Citizen Scientists Improve Tropical Cyclone Intensity Records? 

      Hennon, Christopher C.; Knapp, Kenneth R.; Schreck, Carl J.; Stevens, Scott E.; Kossin, James P.; Thorne, Peter W.; Hennon, Paula A.; Kruk, Michael C.; Rennie, Jared; Gadéa, Jean-Maurice; Striegl, Maximilian; Carley, Ian (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      he global tropical cyclone (TC) intensity record, even in modern times, is uncertain because the vast majority of storms are only observed remotely. Forecasters determine the maximum wind speed using a patchwork of sporadic ...

    • Current and Future Perspectives of Aerosol Research at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 

      Matsui, Toshi; Ichoku, Charles; Randles, Cynthia; Yuan, Tianle; da Silva, Arlindo M.; Colarco, Peter; Kim, Dongchul; Levy, Robert; Sayer, Andrew; Chin, Mian; Giles, David; Holben, Brent; Welton, Ellsworth; Eck, Thomas; Remer, Lorraine (American Meteorological Society, 2014)

    • Transformation of the CSU–CHILL Radar Facility to a Dual-Frequency, Dual-Polarization Doppler System 

      Junyent, Francesc; Chandrasekar, V.; Bringi, V. N.; Rutledge, S. A.; Kennedy, P. C.; Brunkow, D.; George, J.; Bowie, R. (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      his paper describes the transformation of the Colorado State University?University of Chicago?Illinois State Water Survey (CSU?CHILL) National Radar Facility from a single-frequency (S band) dual-polarization Doppler weather ...

    • Somewhere Over the Rainbow: How to Make Effective Use of Colors in Meteorological Visualizations 

      Stauffer, Reto; Mayr, Georg J.; Dabernig, Markus; Zeileis, Achim (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      esults of many atmospheric science applications are processed graphically. Visualizations are a powerful tool to display and communicate data. However, to create effective figures, a wide scope of challenges has to be ...

    • Motivation for and Development of a Standardized Introductory Meteorology Assessment Exam 

      Davenport, Casey E.; Wohlwend, Christian S.; Koehler, Thomas L. (American Meteorological Society, 2014)
      ducation research has shown that there is often a disconnect between what instructors teach and what students actually comprehend. Much of this disconnect stems from students? previous conceptions of the subject that often ...