Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Aerosols for Concentrating Solar Electricity Production Forecasts: Requirement Quantification and ECMWF/MACC Aerosol Forecast Assessment 

      Schroedter-Homscheidt, Marion; Oumbe, Armel; Benedetti, Angela; Morcrette, Jean-Jacques (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      tial for transferring a larger share of our energy supply toward renewable energy is a widely discussed goal in society, economics, environment, and climate-related programs. For a larger share of electricity to come from ...

    • UPLIGHTS: Upward Lightning Triggering Study 

      Warner, Tom A.; Helsdon, John H.; Bunkers, Matthew J.; Saba, Marcelo M. F.; Orville, Richard E. (American Meteorological Society, 2012)

    • High and Dry: New Observations of Tropospheric and Cloud Properties above the Greenland Ice Sheet 

      Shupe, Matthew D.; Turner, David D.; Walden, Von P.; Bennartz, Ralf; Cadeddu, Maria P.; Castellani, Benjamin B.; Cox, Christopher J.; Hudak, David R.; Kulie, Mark S.; Miller, Nathaniel B.; Neely, Ryan R.; Neff, William D.; Rowe, Penny M. (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      atmospheric properties strongly influence the mass and energy budgets of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS). To address critical gaps in the understanding of these systems, a new suite of cloud- and atmosphere-observing instruments ...

    • Progress and direction in tropical convection research: YOTC International Science Symposium 

      Moncrieff, Mitchell W.; Waliser, Duane E.; Caughey, James (American Meteorological Society, 2012)

    • The ESA Climate Change Initiative: Satellite Data Records for Essential Climate Variables 

      Hollmann, R.; Merchant, C. J.; Saunders, R.; Downy, C.; Buchwitz, M.; Cazenave, A.; Chuvieco, E.; Defourny, P.; de Leeuw, G.; Forsberg, R.; Holzer-Popp, T.; Paul, F.; Sandven, S.; Sathyendranath, S.; van Roozendael, M.; Wagner, W. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      ons of Earth from space have been made for over 40 years and have contributed to advances in many aspects of climate science. However, attempts to exploit this wealth of data are often hampered by a lack of homogeneity and ...

    • High-Latitude Ocean and Sea Ice Surface Fluxes: Challenges for Climate Research 

      Bourassa, Mark A.; Gille, Sarah T.; Bitz, Cecilia; Carlson, David; Cerovecki, Ivana; Clayson, Carol Anne; Cronin, Meghan F.; Drennan, Will M.; Fairall, Chris W.; Hoffman, Ross N.; Magnusdottir, Gudrun; Pinker, Rachel T.; Renfrew, Ian A.; Serreze, Mark; Speer, Kevin; Talley, Lynne D.; Wick, Gary A. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      ions have great sensitivity to climate forcing; however, understanding of the physical processes coupling the atmosphere and ocean in these regions is relatively poor. Improving our knowledge of high-latitude surface fluxes ...

    • Ocean–Cloud–Atmosphere–Land Interactions in the Southeastern Pacific: The VOCALS Program 

      Mechoso, C. R.; Wood, R.; Weller, R.; Bretherton, C. S.; Clarke, A. D.; Coe, H.; Fairall, C.; Farrar, J. T.; Feingold, G.; Garreaud, R.; Grados, C.; McWilliams, J.; de Szoeke, S. P.; Yuter, S. E.; Zuidema, P. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      nt paper describes the Variability of the American Monsoon Systems (VAMOS) Ocean?Cloud?Atmosphere?Land Study (VOCALS), an international research program focused on the improved understanding and modeling of the southeastern ...

    • Preparation Plus Serendipity: A Recipe for a Lifetime of Discovery 

      Atlas, David (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      ct available.

    • Establishing Closer Collaboration to Improve Model Physics for Short-Range Forecasts 

      Wolff, Jamie K.; Ferrier, Brad S.; Mass, Clifford F. (American Meteorological Society, 2012)

    • CHASER: An Innovative Satellite Mission Concept to Measure the Effects of Aerosols on Clouds and Climate 

      Rennó, Nilton O.; Williams, Earle; Rosenfeld, Daniel; Fischer, David G.; Fischer, Jürgen; Kremic, Tibor; Agrawal, Arun; Andreae, Meinrat O.; Bierbaum, Rosina; Blakeslee, Richard; Boerner, Anko; Bowles, Neil; Christian, Hugh; Cox, Ann; Dunion, Jason; Horvath, Akos; Huang, Xianglei; Khain, Alexander; Kinne, Stefan; Lemos, Maria C.; Penner, Joyce E.; Pöschl, Ulrich; Quaas, Johannes; Seran, Elena; Stevens, Bjorn; Walati, Thomas; Wagner, Thomas (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      tion of cloud droplets on aerosol particles, technically known as the activation of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), is the fundamental process driving the interactions of aerosols with clouds and precipitation. The ...

    • Crop Wind Energy Experiment (CWEX): Observations of Surface-Layer, Boundary Layer, and Mesoscale Interactions with a Wind Farm 

      Rajewski, Daniel A.; Takle, Eugene S.; Lundquist, Julie K.; Oncley, Steven; Prueger, John H.; Horst, Thomas W.; Rhodes, Michael E.; Pfeiffer, Richard; Hatfield, Jerry L.; Spoth, Kristopher K.; Doorenbos, Russell K. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      ions of mean and turbulent wind characteristics by large wind turbines modify fluxes between the vegetated surface and the lower boundary layer. While simulations have suggested that wind farms could significantly change ...

    • NOAA's Merged Land–Ocean Surface Temperature Analysis 

      Vose, Russell S.; Arndt, Derek; Banzon, Viva F.; Easterling, David R.; Gleason, Byron; Huang, Boyin; Kearns, Ed; Lawrimore, Jay H.; Menne, Matthew J.; Peterson, Thomas C.; Reynolds, Richard W.; Smith, Thomas M.; Williams, Claude N.; Wuertz, David B. (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      r describes the new release of the Merged Land?Ocean Surface Temperature analysis (MLOST version 3.5), which is used in operational monitoring and climate assessment activities by the NOAA National Climatic Data Center. ...

    • On the Need of Intermediate Complexity General Circulation Models: A “SPEEDY” Example 

      Kucharski, Fred; Molteni, Franco; King, Martin P.; Farneti, Riccardo; Kang, In-Sik; Feudale, Laura (American Meteorological Society, 2012)

    • A Flash-Flooding Storm at the Steep Edge of High Terrain: Disaster in the Himalayas 

      Rasmussen, Kristen L.; Houze, Robert A. (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      ods on the edge of high terrain, such as the Himalayas or Rocky Mountains, are especially dangerous and hard to predict. The Leh flood of 2010 at the edge of the Himalayan Plateau in India is an example of the tragic ...

    • The Precis Caribbean Story: Lessons and Legacies 

      Taylor, Michael A.; Centella, Abel; Charlery, John; Bezanilla, Arnoldo; Campbell, Jayaka; Borrajero, Israel; Stephenson, Tannecia; Nurmohamed, Riad (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      ginning of the current century, there was heightened recognition that the Caribbean is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Yet, there was very little climate change science information for the region and ...

    • Land Surface Albedo from Geostationary Satelites: A Multiagency Collaboration within SCOPE-CM 

      Lattanzio, Alessio; Schulz, Jörg; Matthews, Jessica; Okuyama, Arata; Theodore, Bertrand; Bates, John J.; Knapp, Kenneth R.; Kosaka, Yuki; Schüller, Lothar (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      as been recognized to have direct and indirect impact on society and economy, both in the long term and daily life. The challenge of understanding the climate system, with its variability and changes, is enormous and ...

    • NASA's Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) Field Experiment 

      Braun, Scott A.; Kakar, Ramesh; Zipser, Edward; Heymsfield, Gerald; Albers, Cerese; Brown, Shannon; Durden, Stephen L.; Guimond, Stephen; Halverson, Jeffery; Heymsfield, Andrew; Ismail, Syed; Lambrigtsen, Bjorn; Miller, Timothy; Tanelli, Simone; Thomas, Janel; Zawislak, Jon (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      ?September 2010, NASA, NOAA, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) conducted separate but closely coordinated hurricane field campaigns, bringing to bear a combined seven aircraft with both new and mature observing ...

    • Multiscale Convective Organization and the YOTC Virtual Global Field Campaign 

      Moncrieff, Mitchell W.; Waliser, Duane E.; Miller, Martin J.; Shapiro, Melvyn A.; Asrar, Ghassem R.; Caughey, James (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      of Tropical Convection (YOTC) project recognizes that major improvements are needed in how the tropics are represented in climate models. Tropical convection is organized into multiscale precipitation systems with an ...

    • Meteorological Overview of the Devastating 27 April 2011 Tornado Outbreak 

      Knupp, Kevin R.; Murphy, Todd A.; Coleman, Timothy A.; Wade, Ryan A.; Mullins, Stephanie A.; Schultz, Christopher J.; Schultz, Elise V.; Carey, Lawrence; Sherrer, Adam; McCaul, Eugene W.; Carcione, Brian; Latimer, Stephen; Kula, Andy; Laws, Kevin; Marsh, Patrick T.; Klockow, Kim (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      etrics, the tornado outbreak on 27 April 2011 was the most significant tornado outbreak since 1950, exceeding the super outbreak of 3?4 April 1974. The number of tornadoes over a 24-h period (midnight to midnight) was 199; ...

    • Online Rainfall Atlas of Hawai‘i 

      Giambelluca, Thomas W.; Chen, Qi; Frazier, Abby G.; Price, Jonathan P.; Chen, Yi-Leng; Chu, Pao-Shin; Eischeid, Jon K.; Delparte, Donna M. (American Meteorological Society, 2012)