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      Curry, Judith; Webster, Peter J. (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
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    • Racoro Extended-Term Aircraft Observations of Boundary Layer Clouds 

      Vogelmann, Andrew M.; McFarquhar, Greg M.; Ogren, John A.; Turner, David D.; Comstock, Jennifer M.; Feingold, Graham; Long, Charles N.; Jonsson, Haflidi H.; Bucholtz, Anthony; Collins, Don R.; Diskin, Glenn S.; Gerber, Hermann; Lawson, R. Paul; Woods, Roy K.; Andrews, Elisabeth; Yang, Hee-Jung; Chiu, J. Christine; Hartsock, Daniel; Hubbe, John M.; Lo, Chaomei; Marshak, Alexander; Monroe, Justin W.; McFarlane, Sally A.; Schmid, Beat; Tomlinson, Jason M.; Toto, Tami (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      f-a-kind, extended-term cloud aircraft campaign was conducted to obtain an in situ statistical characterization of continental boundary layer clouds needed to investigate cloud processes and refine retrieval algorithms. ...
    • Orographic Precipitation in the Tropics: The Dominica Experiment 

      Smith, Ronald B.; Minder, Justin R.; Nugent, Alison D.; Storelvmo, Trude; Kirshbaum, Daniel J.; Warren, Robert; Lareau, Neil; Palany, Philippe; James, Arlington; French, Jeffrey (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      ica Experiment (DOMEX) took place in the eastern Caribbean from 4 April to 10 May 2011 with 21 research flights of the Wyoming King Air and several other observing systems. The goal was an improved understanding of the ...
    • NOAA's 1981–2010 U.S. Climate Normals: An Overview 

      Arguez, Anthony; Durre, Imke; Applequist, Scott; Vose, Russell S.; Squires, Michael F.; Yin, Xungang; Heim, Richard R.; Owen, Timothy W. (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      nal Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released the 1981?2010 U.S. Climate Normals in July 2011, representing the latest decadal installment of this long-standing product line. Climatic averages (and other ...
    • A Decade of Antarctic Science Support Through Amps 

      Powers, Jordan G.; Manning, Kevin W.; Bromwich, David H.; Cassano, John J.; Cayette, Arthur M. (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      ctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS) is a real-time numerical weather prediction (NWP) system covering Antarctica that has served a remarkable range of groups and activities for a decade. It employs the Weather Research ...
    • Stable Atmospheric Boundary Layers and Diurnal Cycles: Challenges for Weather and Climate Models 

      Holtslag, A. A. M.; Svensson, G.; Baas, P.; Basu, S.; Beare, B.; Beljaars, A. C. M.; Bosveld, F. C.; Cuxart, J.; Lindvall, J.; Steeneveld, G. J.; Tjernström, M.; Van De Wiel, B. J. H. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      sentation of the atmospheric boundary layer is an important part of weather and climate models and impacts many applications such as air quality and wind energy. Over the years, the performance in modeling 2-m temperature ...
    • Advancing Wind-Waves Climate Science 

      Hemer, Mark A.; Wang, Xiaolan L.; Weisse, Ralf; Swail, Val R. (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
    • Anticipating a Rare Event Utilizing Forecast Anomalies and a Situational Awareness Display: The Western U.S. Storms of 18–23 January 2010 

      Graham, Randy; Alcott, Trevor; Hosenfeld, Nanette; Grumm, Richard (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      anuary to 23 January 2010, a series of winter storms impacted the western United States. During this period, a record-setting system produced severe convection, high winds, and heavy rain and snow on 21?22 January. The ...
    • Regional Climate–Weather Research and Forecasting Model 

      Liang, Xin-Zhong; Xu, Min; Yuan, Xing; Ling, Tiejun; Choi, Hyun I.; Zhang, Feng; Chen, Ligang; Liu, Shuyan; Su, Shenjian; Qiao, Fengxue; He, Yuxiang; Wang, Julian X. L.; Kunkel, Kenneth E.; Gao, Wei; Joseph, Everette; Morris, Vernon; Yu, Tsann-Wang; Dudhia, Jimy; Michalakes, John (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      is developed as a climate extension of the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) by incorporating numerous improvements in the representation of physical processes and integration of external (top, surface, lateral) ...
    • Precipitation from Space: Advancing Earth System Science 

      Kucera, Paul A.; Ebert, Elizabeth E.; Turk, F. Joseph; Levizzani, Vincenzo; Kirschbaum, Dalia; Tapiador, Francisco J.; Loew, Alexander; Borsche, M. (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      to space-based observing systems and data processing techniques have made precipitation datasets quickly and easily available via various data portals and widely used in Earth sciences. The increasingly lengthy time span ...
    • Theoretical and Operational Implications of Atmospheric Convective Organization 

      Yano, Jun-Ichi; Graf, Hans-F.; Spineanu, Florin (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
    • The GOES-R Proving Ground: Accelerating User Readiness for the Next-Generation Geostationary Environmental Satellite System 

      Goodman, Steven J.; Gurka, James; DeMaria, Mark; Schmit, Timothy J.; Mostek, Anthony; Jedlovec, Gary; Siewert, Chris; Feltz, Wayne; Gerth, Jordan; Brummer, Renate; Miller, Steven; Reed, Bonnie; Reynolds, Richard R. (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      ationary Operational Environmental Satellite R series (GOES-R) Proving Ground engages the National Weather Service (NWS) forecast, watch, and warning community and other agency users in preoperational demonstrations of the ...
    • Understanding Space Weather: The Sun as a Variable Star 

      Strong, Keith; Saba, Julia; Kucera, Therese (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      can Meteorological Society has recently adopted space weather as a new core competency. This is the first in a series of papers discussing the multidisciplinary aspects of space weather. This paper concerns the physics ...
    • 1981–2010 U.S. Hourly Normals 

      Applequist, Scott; Arguez, Anthony; Durre, Imke; Squires, Michael F.; Vose, Russell S.; Yin, Xungang (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      2010 U.S. Climate Normals released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) include a suite of descriptive statistics based on hourly observations. For each hour ...
    • Toward Global Drought Early Warning Capability: Expanding International Cooperation for the Development of a Framework for Monitoring and Forecasting 

      Pozzi, Will; Sheffield, Justin; Stefanski, Robert; Cripe, Douglas; Pulwarty, Roger; Vogt, Jürgen V.; Heim, Richard R.; Brewer, Michael J.; Svoboda, Mark; Westerhoff, Rogier; van Dijk, Albert I. J. M.; Lloyd-Hughes, Benjamin; Pappenberger, Florian; Werner, Micha; Dutra, Emanuel; Wetterhall, Fredrik; Wagner, Wolfgang; Schubert, Siegfried; Mo, Kingtse; Nicholson, Margaret; Bettio, Lynette; Nunez, Liliana; van Beek, Rens; Bierkens, Marc; de Goncalves, Luis Gustavo Goncalves; de Mattos, João Gerd Zell; Lawford, Richard (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      s a global problem that has far-reaching impacts, especially on vulnerable populations in developing regions. This paper highlights the need for a Global Drought Early Warning System (GDEWS), the elements that constitute ...
    • The Weather Research and Forecasting Model's Community Variational/Ensemble Data Assimilation System: WRFDA 

      Barker, Dale; Huang, Xiang-Yu; Liu, Zhiquan; Auligné, Tom; Zhang, Xin; Rugg, Steven; Ajjaji, Raji; Bourgeois, Al; Bray, John; Chen, Yongsheng; Demirtas, Meral; Guo, Yong-Run; Henderson, Tom; Huang, Wei; Lin, Hui-Chuan; Michalakes, John; Rizvi, Syed; Zhang, Xiaoyan (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      milation is the process by which observations are combined with short-range NWP model output to produce an analysis of the state of the atmosphere at a specified time. Since its inception in the late 1990s, the multiagency ...
    • A New Minimum Temperature Record for Oklahoma 

      McManus, Gary; Schmidlin, Thomas W.; Fiebrich, Christopher A. (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      temperature of ?31°F (?35°C) was recorded at Nowata, Oklahoma, on 10 February 2011. This exceeded the previous record minimum temperature for Oklahoma of ?27°F (?32.8°C). The Nowata station is in the Oklahoma Mesonet ...
    • Field of Dreams or Dream Team? Assessing Two Models for Drought Impact Reporting in the Semiarid Southwest 

      Meadow, Alison M.; Crimmins, Michael A.; Ferguson, Daniel B. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      ecisions about drought declarations, status, and relief funds, decision makers need high-quality local-level drought impact data. In response to this need in Arizona the Arizona DroughtWatch program was created, which ...
    • A Ventilation Index for Tropical Cyclones 

      Tang, Brian; Emanuel, Kerry (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      ant environmental control of both tropical cyclone intensity and genesis is vertical wind shear. One hypothesized pathway by which vertical shear affects tropical cyclones is midlevel ventilation?or the flux of low-entropy ...