Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions
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Highlights of a New Ground-Based, Hourly Global Lightning Climatology
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)nally and diurnally varying frequency of lightning flashes provides a measure of the frequency of occurrence of intense convection and, as such, is useful in describing the Earth's climate. Here we present a few highlights ... -
The Emergence of Weather-Related Test Beds Linking Research and Forecasting Operations
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)have emerged as a critical mechanism linking weather research with forecasting operations. The U.S. Weather Research Program (USWRP) was formed in the 1990s to help identify key gaps in research related to major weather ... -
Supporting the Retention and Advancement of Women in the Atmospheric Sciences: What Women Are Saying
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Driftsondes: Providing In Situ Long-Duration Dropsonde Observations over Remote Regions
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)tions of driftsonde systems? gondolas floating in the stratosphere and able to release dropsondes upon command? have so far been used in three major field experiments from 2006 through 2010. With them, high-quality, ... -
Input Data Requirements for Lagrangian Trajectory Models
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)r 2011 an American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference was held in Grindelwald, Switzerland, titled ?Advances in Lagrangian Modeling of the Atmosphere.? Lagrangian models are being applied to a wide range of high-impact ... -
“Weather Girls” on the Big Screen: Stereotypes, Sex Appeal, and Science
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)rently in the broadcasting meteorology field have dealt with?and continue to deal with?restrictive stereotypes based on the public's perception of their physical appearance and intelligence, largely stemming from the ... -
Fatalities in the United States from Atlantic Tropical Cyclones: New Data and Interpretation
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The Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)decade prior to 2007, the increasing vulnerability of the United States to damage and economic disruption from tropical storms and hurricanes was dramatically demonstrated by the impacts of a number of land-falling storms. ... -
Promoting New Links Between Energy and Meteorology
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Monitoring and Understanding Changes in Heat Waves, Cold Waves, Floods, and Droughts in the United States: State of Knowledge
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)nd climate extremes have been varying and changing on many different time scales. In recent decades, heat waves have generally become more frequent across the United States, while cold waves have been decreasing. While ... -
The Making of an Extreme Event: Putting the Pieces Together
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)e how physical factors spanning climate and weather contributed to record warmth over the central and eastern United States in March 2012, when daily temperature anomalies at many locations exceeded 20°C. Over this region, ... -
Cold-Season Thunderstorms in Finland and Their Effect on Aviation Safety
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)f 13 commercial airplanes were struck by lightning in October (10 in 1 day) and December (3 on 3 separate days) 2011 in the main Finnish Helsinki?Vantaa airport. The number of lightning-struck airplanes is extremely large, ... -
Evaluating and Improving Cloud Parameter Retrievals
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Realizing the Potential of Vehicle-Based Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)tial availability of millions of surface observations from passenger vehicles and fleets represents a potentially significant opportunity for the weather community. The success of this opportunity rests with the weather ... -
The North American Multimodel Ensemble: Phase-1 Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction; Phase-2 toward Developing Intraseasonal Prediction
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)t U.S. National Academies report, Assessment of Intraseasonal to Interannual Climate Prediction and Predictability, was unequivocal in recommending the need for the development of a North American Multimodel Ensemble (NMME) ... -
Uncertainty Quantification for Climate Observations
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Do Satellite Data Portals Today Reach Out to Diverse End Users Around the World?
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Integration of a Road Surface Model into NWS Operations
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)inter weather headlines are based on the meteorological strength of an event with the assumption that stronger events produce larger public impacts. In reality, public impacts involve many factors, such as whether or not ... -
The NCEP–FNMOC Combined Wave Ensemble Product: Expanding Benefits of Interagency Probabilistic Forecasts to the Oceanic Environment
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) have joined forces to establish a first global multicenter ensemble system dedicated to probabilistic ... -
Tornado Debris Characteristics And Trajectories During The 27 April 2011 Super Outbreak As Determined Using Social Media Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)licly available information gleaned from over 1700 found-and-returned objects on the ?Pictures and Documents found after the 27 April 2011 Tornadoes? Facebook page, the authors have created a database of 934 objects lofted ...