Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Deficiencies in the Present Funding Process in Meteorology 

      Carlson, Toby N. (American Meteorological Society, 2006)
      No Abstract Available.

    • Architect Of Severe Storm Forecasting: Colonel Robert C. Miller 

      Lewis, John M.; Maddox, Robert A.; Crisp, Charlie A. (American Meteorological Society, 2006)
      The career of severe storm forecaster and teacher Colonel Robert Miller (1920?98) is historicallyreviewed and evaluated. His pathway to the position of recognized authority in severe storm forecasting is examined in light ...

    • North American Regional Reanalysis 

      Mesinger, Fedor; DiMego, Geoff; Kalnay, Eugenia; Mitchell, Kenneth; Shafran, Perry C.; Ebisuzaki, Wesley; Jović, Dušan; Woollen, Jack; Rogers, Eric; Berbery, Ernesto H.; Ek, Michael B.; Fan, Yun; Grumbine, Robert; Higgins, Wayne; Li, Hong; Lin, Ying; Manikin, Geoff; Parrish, David; Shi, Wei (American Meteorological Society, 2006)
      In 1997, during the late stages of production of NCEP-NCAR Global Reanalysis (GR), exploration of a regional reanalysis project was suggested by the GR project's Advisory Committee, ?particularly if the RDAS [Regional Data ...

    • The Experimental MJO Prediction Project 

      Waliser, Duane; Weickmann, Klaus; Dole, Randall; Schubert, Siegfried; Alves, Oscar; Jones, Charles; Newman, Matthew; Pan, Hua-Lu; Roubicek, Andres; Saha, Suranjana; Smith, Cathy; Van den Dool, Huug; Vitart, Frederic; Wheeler, Matthew; Whitaker, Jeffrey (American Meteorological Society, 2006)
      No Abstract Available.

    • NOMADS: A Climate and Weather Model Archive at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 

      Rutledge, Glenn K.; Alpert, Jordan; Ebisuzaki, Wesley (American Meteorological Society, 2006)
      An online archive of real-time and historical weather and climate model output and observationaldata is now available from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This archive, known asthe NOAA National ...

    • The Virtual Center For Decadal Climate Variability 

      Mehta, Vikram M.; Lindstrom, Eric J.; de Kort, Loreen; DeCandis, Andrew J. (American Meteorological Society, 2006)
      No Abstract Available.

    • Supplement to A Statistical Deterministic Approach to Hurricane Risk Assessment 

      Emanuel, Kerry; Ravela, Sai; Vivant, Emmanuel; Risi, Camille (American Meteorological Society, 2006)

    • NexSat: Previewing NPOESS/VIIRS Imagery Capabilities 

      Miller, Steven D.; Hawkins, Jeffrey D.; Kent, John; Turk, F. Joseph; Lee, Thomas F.; Kuciauskas, Arunas P.; Richardson, Kim; Wade, Robert; Hoffman, Carl (American Meteorological Society, 2006)
      Under the auspices of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System's (NPOESS) Integrated Program Office (IPO), the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has developed ?NexSat? (www.nrlmry.navy.mil/nex ...

    • Wave Modeling: Where to Go in the Future 

      Cavaleri, Luigi (American Meteorological Society, 2006)
      We discuss the present situation of wave modeling and the possibilities of further improvements within the present spectral approach. It is suggested that, still considering the possible ameliorations in the physics and ...

    • Can Lightning Observations be Used as an Indicator of Upper-Tropospheric Water Vapor Variability? 

      Price, Colin; Asfur, Mustafa (American Meteorological Society, 2006)
      Lightning activity in thunderstorms is closely related to the intensity of vertical updrafts indeep convective clouds that also transport large amounts of moisture into the upper troposphere. Small changes in the amount ...

    • Cleveland Abbe and American Meteorology, 1871–1901 

      Willis, Edmund P.; Hooke, William H. (American Meteorological Society, 2006)
      Cleveland Abbe (1838-1916) joined the U.S. Signal Service as the government's first chief meteorologist early in 1871. An honor student in chemistry and mathematics, and a trained astronomer, Abbe brought scientific rigor ...

    • USWRP Workshop on Air Quality Forecasting 

      Dabberdt, Walter F.; Anne Carroll, Mary; Appleby, William; Baumgardner, Darrel; Carmichael, Gregory; Davidson, Paula; Doran, J. Christopher; Dye, Timothy S.; Grimmond, Susan; Middleton, Paulette; Neff, William; Zhang, Yang (American Meteorological Society, 2006)
      No Abstract Available.

    • Associations between Climate Change and Natural Systems in Australia 

      Chambers, Lynda E. (American Meteorological Society, 2006)
      In the 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Assessment Report numerous studies of processes and species associated with regional temperature change were listed for the Northern Hemisphere (107 in ...

    • A Statistical Deterministic Approach to Hurricane Risk Assessment 

      Emanuel, Kerry; Ravela, Sai; Vivant, Emmanuel; Risi, Camille (American Meteorological Society, 2006)
      Hurricanes are lethal and costly phenomena, and it is therefore of great importance to assess the long-term risk they pose to society. Among the greatest threats are those associated with high winds and related phenomena, ...

    • The South American Low-Level Jet Experiment 

      Vera, C.; Baez, J.; Douglas, M.; Emmanuel, C. B.; Marengo, J.; Meitin, J.; Nicolini, M.; Nogues-Paegle, J.; Paegle, J.; Penalba, O.; Salio, P.; Saulo, C.; Silva Dias, M. A.; Silva Dias, P.; Zipser, E. (American Meteorological Society, 2006)
      Moisture is transported in South America westward from the tropical Atlantic Ocean to the Amazon basin, and then southward toward the extratropics. A regional intensification of this circulation to the east of the Andes ...

    • Observations of Multiple Sea Breeze Boundaries during an Unseasonably Warm Day in Metropolitan New York City 

      Novak, David R.; Colle, Brian A. (American Meteorological Society, 2006)
      No Abstract Available.

    • The NPOESS VIIRS Day/Night Visible Sensor 

      Lee, Thomas E.; Miller, Steven D.; Turk, F. Joseph; Schueler, Carl; Julian, Richard; Deyo, Steve; Dills, Patrick; Wang, Sherwood (American Meteorological Society, 2006)
      The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) will feature the Visible?Infrared Imager?Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), a 22-channel imager that will contribute to nearly half of the NPOESS ...

    • Feasibility of a 100-Year Reanalysis Using Only Surface Pressure Data 

      Compo, Gilbert P.; Whitaker, Jeffrey S.; Sardeshmukh, Prashant D. (American Meteorological Society, 2006)
      Climate variability and global change studies are increasingly focused on understanding and predicting regional changes of daily weather statistics. Assessing the evidence for such variations over the last 100 yr requires ...

    • The NAME 2004 Field Campaign and Modeling Strategy 

      Higgins, Wayne; Ahijevych, Dave; Amador, Jorge; Barros, Ana; Berbery, E. Hugo; Caetano, Ernesto; Carbone, Richard; Ciesielski, Paul; Cifelli, Rob; Cortez-Vazquez, Miguel; Douglas, Art; Douglas, Michael; Emmanuel, Gus; Fairall, Chris; Gochis, David; Gutzler, David; Jackson, Thomas; Johnson, Richard; King, Clark; Lang, Timothy; Lee, Myong-In; Lettenmaier, Dennis; Lobato, Rene; Magaña, Victor; Meiten, Jose; Mo, Kingtse; Nesbitt, Stephen; Ocampo-Torres, Francisco; Pytlak, Erik; Rogers, Peter; Rutledge, Steven; Schemm, Jae; Schubert, Siegfried; White, Allen; Williams, Christopher; Wood, Andrew; Zamora, Robert; Zhang, Chidong (American Meteorological Society, 2006)
      The North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME) is an internationally coordinated process study aimed at determining the sources and limits of predictability of warm-season precipitation over North America. The scientific ...

    • A Comparative Analysis of the Influence of Weather on the Flight Altitudes of Birds 

      Shamoun-Baranes, Judy; van Loon, Emiel; van Gasteren, Hans; van Belle, Jelmer; Bouten, Willem; Buurma, Luit (American Meteorological Society, 2006)
      Birds pose a serious risk to flight safety worldwide. A Bird Avoidance Model (BAM) is being developed in the Netherlands to reduce the risk of bird?aircraft collisions. In order to develop a temporally and spatially dynamic ...