Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Transferability Intercomparison: An Opportunity for New Insight on the Global Water Cycle and Energy Budget 

      Takle, E. S.; Gutowski, W. J.; Arritt, R. W.; Roads, J.; Meinke, I.; Rockel, B.; Jones, C. G.; Zadra, A. (American Meteorological Society, 2007)
      A new approach, called transferability intercomparisons, is described for advancing both understanding and modeling of the global water cycle and energy budget. Under this approach, individual regional climate models perform ...

    • Factors Affecting the Increasing Costs of AMS Conferences 

      Schultz, David M.; Seitter, Keith; Gorski, Claudia; Bosart, Lance; Iovinella, Celeste (American Meteorological Society, 2007)
      No Abstract available.

    • Supplement to Transferability Intercomparison: An Opportunity for New Insight on the Global Water Cycle and Energy Budget 

      Takle, E. S.; Roads, J.; Rockel, B.; Gutowski, W. J.; Arritt, R. W.; Meinke, I.; Jones, C. G.; Zadra, A. (American Meteorological Society, 2007)

    • Air–Sea Exchange in Hurricanes: Synthesis of Observations from the Coupled Boundary Layer Air–Sea Transfer Experiment 

      Black, Peter G.; D'Asaro, Eric A.; Sanford, Thomas B.; Drennan, William M.; Zhang, Jun A.; French, Jeffrey R.; Niiler, Pearn P.; Terrill, Eric J.; Walsh, Edward J. (American Meteorological Society, 2007)
      The Coupled Boundary Layer Air?Sea Transfer (CBLAST) field program, conducted from 2002 to 2004, has provided a wealth of new air?sea interaction observations in hurricanes. The wind speed range for which turbulent momentum ...

    • Winter MONEX: A Quarter-Century and Beyond 

      Johnson, Richard H.; Chang, Chih-Pei (American Meteorological Society, 2007)
      No Abstract available.

    • The Coupled Boundary Layers and Air–Sea Transfer Experiment in Low Winds 

      Edson, James; Crawford, Timothy; Crescenti, Jerry; Farrar, Tom; Frew, Nelson; Gerbi, Greg; Plueddemann, Albert; Trowbridge, John; Weller, Robert; Williams, Albert J.; Helmis, Costas; Hristov, Tihomir; Shen, Lian; Khelif, Djamal; Jessup, Andrew; Jonsson, Haf; Li, Ming; Mahrt, Larry; Skyllingstad, Eric; Vickers, Dean; McGillis, Wade; Zappa, Chris; Stanton, Tim; Wang, Qing; Sullivan, Peter; Sun, Jielun; Wang, Shouping; Wilkin, John; Yue, D. K. P. (American Meteorological Society, 2007)
      The Office of Naval Research's Coupled Boundary Layers and Air?Sea Transfer (CBLAST) program is being conducted to investigate the processes that couple the marine boundary layers and govern the exchange of heat, mass, and ...

    • Workshop on Tropical Cyclones and Climate 

      Camargo, Suzana J.; Sobel, Adam H. (American Meteorological Society, 2007)
      No Abstract available.

    • Different Approaches for Constraining Global Climate Models of the Anthropogenic Indirect Aerosol Effect 

      Lohmann, U.; Quaas, J.; Kinne, S.; Feichter, J. (American Meteorological Society, 2007)
      Assessments of the influence of aerosol emissions from human activities on the radiation budget, in particular via the modification of cloud properties, have been a challenge. In light of the variability to both aerosol ...

    • Mixing Politics and Science in Testing the Hypothesis That Greenhouse Warming is Causing a Global Increase in Hurricane Intensity 

      de Laat, A. T. J. (American Meteorological Society, 2007)
      No Abstract Available.

    • Rain-on-Snow Events in the Western United States 

      McCabe, Gregory J.; Hay, Lauren E.; Clark, Martyn P. (American Meteorological Society, 2007)
      Rain-on-snow events pose a significant flood hazard in the western United States. This study provides a description of the spatial and temporal variability of the frequency of rain-on-snow events for 4318 sites in the ...

    • The Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation 

      Marshall, John Le; Uccellini, Louis; Einaudi, Franco; Riishojgaard, Lars-Peters; Colton, Marie; Weng, Fuzhong; Yoe, James G.; Chang, Simon; Phoebus, Patricia; Uhart, Michael; Lord, Stephen (American Meteorological Society, 2007)
      The Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA) was established by NASA and NOAA in 2001, with Department of Defense (DoD) agencies becoming partners in 2002. The goal of JCSDA is to accelerate the use of observations ...

    • The Global Circuit Intensity: Its Measurement and Variation over the Last 50 Years 

      Markson, Ralph (American Meteorological Society, 2007)
      A fundamental problem in atmospheric electric research has been measurement of the intensity and variation of Earth's electric field, which is proportional to ionospheric potential (Vi). To obtain its magnitude an electric ...

    • The CBLAST-Hurricane Program and the Next-Generation Fully Coupled Atmosphere–Wave–Ocean Models for Hurricane Research and Prediction 

      Chen, Shuyi S.; Zhao, Wei; Donelan, Mark A.; Price, James F.; Walsh, Edward J. (American Meteorological Society, 2007)
      No abstract available.

    • Thin Liquid Water Clouds: Their Importance and Our Challenge 

      Turner, D. D.; Vogelmann, A. M.; Johnson, K.; Miller, M.; Austin, R. T.; Barnard, J. C.; Flynn, C.; Long, C.; McFarlane, S. A.; Cady-Pereira, K.; Clough, S. A.; Chiu, J. C.; Khaiyer, M. M.; Liljegren, J.; Lin, B.; Minnis, P.; Marshak, A.; Matrosov, S. Y.; Min, Q.; O'Hirok, W.; Wang, Z.; Wiscombe, W. (American Meteorological Society, 2007)
      Many of the clouds important to the Earth's energy balance, from the Tropics to the Arctic, contain small amounts of liquid water. Longwave and shortwave radiative fluxes are very sensitive to small perturbations of the ...

    • An Intercomparison of Microphysical Retrieval Algorithms for Upper-Tropospheric Ice Clouds 

      Comstock, Jennifer M.; McFarlane, Sally A.; d'Entremont, Robert; DeSlover, Daniel; Turner, David D.; Mace, Gerald G.; Matrosov, Sergey Y.; Shupe, Matthew D.; Minnis, Patrick; Mitchell, David; Sassen, Kenneth; Wang, Zhien (American Meteorological Society, 2007)
      The large horizontal extent, with its location in the cold upper troposphere, and ice composition make cirrus clouds important modulators of the Earth's radiation budget and climate. Cirrus cloud microphysical properties ...

    • The Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment 

      Verlinde, J.; Harrington, J. Y.; Yannuzzi, V. T.; Avramov, A.; Greenberg, S.; Richardson, S. J.; Bahrmann, C. P.; McFarquhar, G. M.; Zhang, G.; Johnson, N.; Poellot, M. R.; Mather, J. H.; Turner, D. D.; Eloranta, E. W.; Tobin, D. C.; Holz, R.; Zak, B. D.; Ivey, M. D.; Prenni, A. J.; DeMott, P. J.; Daniel, J. S.; Kok, G. L.; Sassen, K.; Spangenberg, D.; Minnis, P.; Tooman, T. P.; Shupe, M.; Heymsfield, A. J.; Schofield, R. (American Meteorological Society, 2007)
      The Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment (M-PACE) was conducted from 27 September through 22 October 2004 over the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility (ACRF) on the North ...

    • Introducing HYDRA: A Multispectral Data Analysis Toolkit 

      Rink, Tom; Antonelli, Paolo; Whittaker, Tom; Baggett, Kevin; Gumley, Liam; Huang, Allen; Menzel, W. Paul (American Meteorological Society, 2007)
      A freeware-based multispectral data analysis tool kit for satellite data has been developed to assist research and development of remote-sensing applications as well as education and training of remote-sensing scientists; ...

    • The Pentagon Shield Field Program: Toward Critical Infrastructure Protection 

      Warner, Thomas; Benda, Paul; Swerdlin, Scott; Knievel, Jason; Copeland, Jeff; Crook, Andrew; Liu, Yubao; Mayor, Shane; Morley, Bruce; Sharman, Robert; Spuler, Scott; Sun, Juanzhen; Xu, Mei; Yates, Al; Zhang, Ying; Argenta, Edward; Aronian, Bryan; Bowers, James; Storwold, Donald; Balsley, Ben; Jensen, Michael; Meillier, Yannick; Carter, Roger; Clawson, Kirk; Clark, Pamela; Frehlich, Rod; Weil, Jeffrey (American Meteorological Society, 2007)
      The Pentagon, and its 25,000+ occupants, represents a likely target for a future terrorist attack using chemical, biological, or radiological material released into the atmosphere. Motivated by this, a building-protection ...

    • The NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS): Programs and Achievements 

      Morris, V.; Yu, T-W.; Joseph, E.; Armstrong, R.; Fitzgerald, R.; Karim, R.; X.-Z.Liang; Min, Q. (American Meteorological Society, 2007)
      No Abstract Available.

    • NCAR/CU Surface, Soil, and Vegetation Observations during the International H2O Project 2002 Field Campaign 

      LeMone, Margaret A.; Chen, Fei; Alfieri, Joseph G.; Cuenca, Richard H.; Hagimoto, Yutaka; Blanken, Peter; Niyogi, Dev; Kang, Songlak; Davis, Kenneth; Grossman, Robert L. (American Meteorological Society, 2007)
      The May?June 2002 International H2O Project was held in the U.S. Southern Great Plains to determine ways that moisture data could be collected and utilized in numerical forecast models most effectively. We describe the ...