Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Alternative Climate Normals: Impacts to the Energy Industry 

      Arguez, Anthony; Vose, Russell S.; Dissen, Jenny (American Meteorological Society, 2013)

    • Heihe Watershed Allied Telemetry Experimental Research (HiWATER): Scientific Objectives and Experimental Design 

      Li, Xin; Cheng, Guodong; Liu, Shaomin; Xiao, Qing; Ma, Mingguo; Jin, Rui; Che, Tao; Liu, Qinhuo; Wang, Weizhen; Qi, Yuan; Wen, Jianguang; Li, Hongyi; Zhu, Gaofeng; Guo, Jianwen; Ran, Youhua; Wang, Shuoguo; Zhu, Zhongli; Zhou, Jian; Hu, Xiaoli; Xu, Ziwei (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      esearch plan entitled ?Integrated research on the ecohydrological process of the Heihe River Basin? was launched by the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2010. One of the key aims of this research plan is to ...

    • Tracking Pulses of the Madden–Julian Oscillation 

      Yoneyama, Kunio; Zhang, Chidong; Long, Charles N. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      ational field campaign aiming at atmospheric and oceanic processes associated with the Madden?Julian oscillation (MJO) was conducted in and around the tropical Indian Ocean during October 2011?March 2012. The objective of ...

    • The Wildfires of 1910: Climatology of an Extreme Early Twentieth-Century Event and Comparison with More Recent Extremes 

      Diaz, Henry F.; Swetnam, Thomas W. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      e summer of 1910 large wildfires occurred throughout the western United States, and especially in the northern Rocky Mountains. The ?Great Idaho Fires? of 1910 alone burned about three million acres (~1.2 Mha)? an area ...

    • A Cost-Effective Trace Gas Measurement Program for Long-Term Monitoring of the Stratospheric Circulation 

      Moore, Fred L.; Ray, Eric A.; Rosenlof, Karen H.; Elkins, James W.; Tans, Pieter; Karion, Anna; Sweeney, Colm (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      pheric trace gas measurement program using balloon-based sonde and AirCore sampler techniques is proposed as a way to monitor the strength of the stratospheric mean meridional or Brewer?Dobson circulation. Modeling work ...

    • Why Python Is the Next Wave in Earth Sciences Computing 

      Lin, Johnny Wei-Bing (American Meteorological Society, 2012)

    • The Tornado Warning Process: A Review of Current Research, Challenges, and Opportunities 

      Brotzge, J.; Donner, W. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      unusually violent tornado season of 2011, there has been a renewed national interest, through such programs as NOAA's Weather Ready Nation initiative, to reevaluate and improve our tornado warning process. This literature ...

    • Achieving Climate Change Absolute Accuracy in Orbit 

      Wielicki, Bruce A.; Young, D. F.; Mlynczak, M. G.; Thome, K. J.; Leroy, S.; Corliss, J.; Anderson, J. G.; Ao, C. O.; Bantges, R.; Best, F.; Bowman, K.; Brindley, H.; Butler, J. J.; Collins, W.; Dykema, J. A.; Doelling, D. R.; Feldman, D. R.; Fox, N.; Huang, X.; Holz, R.; Huang, Y.; Jin, Z.; Jennings, D.; Johnson, D. G.; Jucks, K.; Kato, S.; Kirk-Davidoff, D. B.; Knuteson, R.; Kopp, G.; Kratz, D. P.; Liu, X.; Lukashin, C.; Mannucci, A. J.; Phojanamongkolkij, N.; Pilewskie, P.; Ramaswamy, V.; Revercomb, H.; Rice, J.; Roberts, Y.; Roithmayr, C. M.; Rose, F.; Sandford, S.; Shirley, E. L.; Smith, W. L.; Soden, B.; Speth, P. W.; Sun, W.; Taylor, P. C.; Tobin, D.; Xiong, X. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      te Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) mission will provide a calibration laboratory in orbit for the purpose of accurately measuring and attributing climate change. CLARREO measurements establish new ...

    • An Overview of the Urban Boundary Layer Atmosphere Network in Helsinki 

      Wood, C. R.; Järvi, L.; Kouznetsov, R. D.; Nordbo, A.; Joffre, S.; Drebs, A.; Vihma, T.; Hirsikko, A.; Suomi, I.; Fortelius, C.; O'Connor, E.; Moiseev, D.; Haapanala, S.; Moilanen, J.; Kangas, M.; Karppinen, A.; Vesala, T.; Kukkonen, J. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      nki Urban Boundary-Layer Atmosphere Network (UrBAN: http://urban.fmi.fi) is a dedicated research-grade observational network where the physical processes in the atmosphere above the city are studied. Helsinki UrBAN is the ...

    • A Comprehensive, High-Resolution Database of Historical and Projected Climate Surfaces for Western North America 

      Hamann, Andreas; Wang, Tongli; Spittlehouse, David L.; Murdock, Trevor Q. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      t a comprehensive set of interpolated climate data for western North America, including monthly data for the last century (1901?2009), future projections from atmosphere?ocean general circulation models (A2, A1B, and B1 ...

    • Leveraging Highly Accurate Data in Diagnosing Errors in Atmospheric Models 

      Leroy, Stephen S.; Rodwell, Mark J. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      curate data can serve the numerical weather prediction, climate prediction, and atmospheric reanalysis communities by better enabling the diagnosis of model error through the careful examination of the diagnostics of data ...

    • Understanding the Transport and Impact of African Dust on the Caribbean Basin 

      Prospero, Joseph M.; Mayol-Bracero, Olga L. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      r huge quantities of soil dust are carried by winds from Africa, across the Atlantic, and to the Caribbean. No other ocean region is so extensively and persistently impacted by such high concentrations of dust, a region ...

    • Climate Change Education Through TV Weathercasts: Results of a Field Experiment 

      Zhao, Xiaoquan; Maibach, Edward; Gandy, Jim; Witte, Joe; Cullen, Heidi; Klinger, Barry A.; Rowan, Katherine E.; Witte, James; Pyle, Andrew (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      rcasters are well positioned to educate Americans about the relationships among weather, climate, and climate change. Through a collaboration involving TV meteorologists, climatologists, and social scientists, we produced ...

    • What Influences the Skill of Climate Models over the Continents? 

      Watterson, I. G.; Bathols, J.; Heady, C. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      odeling groups from four continents have submitted simulations as part of phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5). With climate impact assessment in mind, we test the accuracy of the seasonal averages ...

    • A Striking Cloud Over Boulder, Colorado: What Is Its Altitude, and Why Does It Matter? 

      LeMone, Margaret A.; Schlatter, Thomas W.; Henson, Robert T. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      c investigation is supposed to be objective and strictly logical, but this is not always the case: the process that leads to a good conclusion can be messy. This narrative describes interactions among a group of scientists ...

    • Cross-Cultural Insights into Climate Change Skepticism 

      Rudiak-Gould, Peter (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      ye toward developing more effective climate change education, social scientists have attempted to diagnose the reasons for lingering public skepticism of anthropogenic climate change. But rarely is the question addressed ...

    • The Community Earth System Model: A Framework for Collaborative Research 

      Hurrell, James W.; Holland, M. M.; Gent, P. R.; Ghan, S.; Kay, Jennifer E.; Kushner, P. J.; Lamarque, J.-F.; Large, W. G.; Lawrence, D.; Lindsay, K.; Lipscomb, W. H.; Long, M. C.; Mahowald, N.; Marsh, D. R.; Neale, R. B.; Rasch, P.; Vavrus, S.; Vertenstein, M.; Bader, D.; Collins, W. D.; Hack, J. J.; Kiehl, J.; Marshall, S. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      nity Earth System Model (CESM) is a flexible and extensible community tool used to investigate a diverse set of Earth system interactions across multiple time and space scales. This global coupled model significantly extends ...

    • Precipitation Variability and Extremes in Central Europe: New View from STAMMEX Results 

      Zolina, Olga; Simmer, Clemens; Kapala, Alice; Shabanov, Pavel; Becker, Paul; Mächel, Hermann; Gulev, Sergey; Groisman, Pavel (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      EX (Spatial and Temporal Scales and Mechanisms of Extreme Precipitation Events over Central Europe) project has developed a high-resolution gridded long-term precipitation dataset based on the daily-observing precipitation ...

    • A Drought Monitoring and Forecasting System for Sub-Sahara African Water Resources and Food Security 

      Sheffield, Justin; Wood, Eric F.; Chaney, Nathaniel; Guan, Kaiyu; Sadri, Sara; Yuan, Xing; Olang, Luke; Amani, Abou; Ali, Abdou; Demuth, Siegfried; Ogallo, Laban (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      s one of the leading impediments to development in Africa. Much of the continent is dependent on rain-fed agriculture, which makes it particularly susceptible to climate variability. Monitoring drought and providing timely ...

    • The Use of Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response to Evaluate NWS Warnings 

      Chiu, Cindy H.; Noe, Rebecca S.; Martin, John Paul; Wolkin, Amy F.; Vagi, Sara J. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)