Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Climate Science and the Broadcast Meteorologist 

      Nese, Jon M.; Najjar, Raymond G.; Murgo, Joseph G. (American Meteorological Society, 2012)

    • Analogies of Ocean/Atmosphere Rotating Fluid Dynamics with Gyroscopes: Teaching Opportunities 

      Haine, Thomas W. N.; Cherian, Deepak A. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      ics of the rotating shallow-water (RSW) system include geostrophic f low and inertial oscillation. These classes of motion are ubiquitous in the ocean and atmosphere. They are often surprising to people at first because ...

    • Possible Implications of Climate Engineering for Peace and Security 

      Link, P. Michael; Brzoska, Michael; Maas, Achim; Neuneck, Götz; Scheffran, Jürgen (American Meteorological Society, 2012)

    • Recent Advances in the Historical Climatology of the Tropics and Subtropics 

      Nash, David J.; Adamson, George C. D. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      ars have seen major advances in the understanding of the historical climatology of tropical and subtropical areas, primarily through the analysis of documentary materials such as weather diaries, newspapers, personal ...

    • Madden–Julian Oscillation: Bridging Weather and Climate 

      Zhang, Chidong (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      n?Julian oscillation exerts broad influences on global weather and climate as its center of convection moves from the tropical Indian Ocean into the Pacific. Weather events under the influence of the MJO include precipitation, ...

    • Eastern Pacific Emitted Aerosol Cloud Experiment 

      Russell, Lynn M.; Sorooshian, Armin; Seinfeld, John H.; Albrecht, Bruce A.; Nenes, Athanasios; Ahlm, Lars; Chen, Yi-Chun; Coggon, Matthew; Craven, Jill S.; Flagan, Richard C.; Frossard, Amanda A.; Jonsson, Haflidi; Jung, Eunsil; Lin, Jack J.; Metcalf, Andrew R.; Modini, Robin; Mülmenstädt, Johannes; Roberts, Greg; Shingler, Taylor; Song, Siwon; Wang, Zhen; Wonaschütz, Anna (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      loud?radiation interactions are widely held to be the largest single source of uncertainty in climate model projections of future radiative forcing due to increasing anthropogenic emissions. The underlying causes of this ...

    • Explaining Extreme Events of 2011 from a Climate Perspective 

      Peterson, Thomas C.; Stott, Peter A.; Herring, Stephanie (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      on of extreme events shortly after their occurrence stretches the current state-of-theart of climate change assessment. To help foster the growth of this science, this article illustrates some approaches to answering ...

    • Unified Modeling and Prediction of Weather and Climate: A 25-Year Journey 

      Brown, Andrew; Milton, Sean; Cullen, Mike; Golding, Brian; Mitchell, John; Shelly, Ann (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      years there has been a growing appreciation of the potential advantages of using a seamless approach to weather and climate prediction. However, what exactly should this mean in practice? To help address this question, we ...

    • NOAA's Second-Generation Global Medium-Range Ensemble Reforecast Dataset 

      Hamill, Thomas M.; Bates, Gary T.; Whitaker, Jeffrey S.; Murray, Donald R.; Fiorino, Michael; Galarneau, Thomas J.; Zhu, Yuejian; Lapenta, William (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      cadal ensemble reforecast database is now available that is approximately consistent with the operational 0000 UTC cycle of the 2012 NOAA Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS). The reforecast dataset consists of an 11-member ...

    • Incorporating Hurricane Forecast Uncertainty into a Decision-Support Application for Power Outage Modeling 

      Quiring, Steven M.; Schumacher, Andrea B.; Guikema, Seth D. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      of decision-support systems, such as those employed by energy and utility companies, use the National Hurricane Center (NHC) forecasts of track and intensity to inform operational decision making as a hurricane approaches. ...

    • A Need for “Actionable” Climate Science and Information: Summary of WCRP Open Science Conference 

      Asrar, Ghassem R.; Hurrell, James W.; Busalacchi, Antonio J. (American Meteorological Society, 2012)

    • The Concordiasi Field Experiment over Antarctica: First Results from Innovative Atmospheric Measurements 

      Rabier, Florence; Cohn, Steve; Cocquerez, Philippe; Hertzog, Albert; Avallone, Linnea; Deshler, Terry; Haase, Jennifer; Hock, Terry; Doerenbecher, Alexis; Wang, Junhong; Guidard, Vincent; Thépaut, Jean-Noël; Langland, Rolf; Tangborn, Andrew; Balsamo, Gianpaolo; Brun, Eric; Parsons, David; Bordereau, Jérôme; Cardinali, Carla; Danis, François; Escarnot, Jean-Pierre; Fourrié, Nadia; Gelaro, Ron; Genthon, Christophe; Ide, Kayo; Kalnajs, Lars; Martin, Charlie; Meunier, Louis-François; Nicot, Jean-Marc; Perttula, Tuuli; Potts, Nicholas; Ragazzo, Patrick; Richardson, David; Sosa-Sesma, Sergio; Vargas, André (American Meteorological Society, 2012)

    • Pathways, Impacts, and Policies on Severe Aerosol Injections into the Atmosphere: 2011 Severe Atmospheric Aerosols Events Conference 

      Weil, Martin; Grassl, Hartmut; Hoshyaripour, Gholamali; Kloster, Silvia; Kominek, Jasmin; Misios, Stergios; Scheffran, Juergen; Starr, Steven; Stenchikov, Georgiy; Sudarchikova, Natalia; Timmreck, Claudia; Zhang, Dan; Kalinowski, Martin (American Meteorological Society, 2012)

    • The Far-Infrared: Focusing on a Relatively Underexplored Portion of the Electromagnetic Spectrum 

      Turner, David D.; Gero, P. Jonathan; Tobin, David C. (American Meteorological Society, 2012)

    • Advancing Great Lakes Hydrological Science Through Targeted Binational Collaborative Research 

      Gronewold, Andrew D.; Fortin, Vincent (American Meteorological Society, 2012)

    • Linking Wildlife, Water, and Climate 

      Grant, Nicholas; Saito, Laurel (American Meteorological Society, 2013)

    • Use of NWP for Nowcasting Convective Precipitation: Recent Progress and Challenges 

      Sun, Juanzhen; Xue, Ming; Wilson, James W.; Zawadzki, Isztar; Ballard, Sue P.; Onvlee-Hooimeyer, Jeanette; Joe, Paul; Barker, Dale M.; Li, Ping-Wah; Golding, Brian; Xu, Mei; Pinto, James (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      ally, the nowcasting of precipitation was conducted to a large extent by means of extrapolation of observations, especially of radar ref lectivity. In recent years, the blending of traditional extrapolation-based techniques ...

    • A Feasibility Study for Probabilistic Convection Initiation Forecasts Based on Explicit Numerical Guidance 

      Kain, John S.; Coniglio, Michael C.; Correia, James; Clark, Adam J.; Marsh, Patrick T.; Ziegler, Conrad L.; Lakshmanan, Valliappa; Miller, Stuart D.; Dembek, Scott R.; Weiss, Steven J.; Kong, Fanyou; Xue, Ming; Sobash, Ryan A.; Dean, Andrew R.; Jirak, Israel L.; Melick, Christopher J. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      Spring Forecasting Experiment in the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) featured a significant component on convection initiation (CI). As in previous HWT experiments, the CI study was a collaborative effort between ...

    • The Persistent Cold-Air Pool Study 

      Lareau, Neil P.; Crosman, Erik; Whiteman, C. David; Horel, John D.; Hoch, Sebastian W.; Brown, William O. J.; Horst, Thomas W. (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      stent Cold-Air Pool Study (PCAPS) was conducted in Utah's Salt Lake valley from 1 December 2010 to 7 February 2011. The field campaign's primary goal was to improve understanding of the physical processes governing the ...

    • Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge 

      Kunkel, Kenneth E.; Karl, Thomas R.; Brooks, Harold; Kossin, James; Lawrimore, Jay H.; Arndt, Derek; Bosart, Lance; Changnon, David; Cutter, Susan L.; Doesken, Nolan; Emanuel, Kerry; Groisman, Pavel Ya.; Katz, Richard W.; Knutson, Thomas; O'Brien, James; Paciorek, Christopher J.; Peterson, Thomas C.; Redmond, Kelly; Robinson, David; Trapp, Jeff; Vose, Russell; Weaver, Scott; Wehner, Michael; Wolter, Klaus; Wuebbles, Donald (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      of knowledge regarding trends and an understanding of their causes is presented for a specific subset of extreme weather and climate types. For severe convective storms (tornadoes, hailstorms, and severe thunderstorms), ...