Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • The Influence of Climate Science on Water Management in Western Australia: Lessons for Climate Scientists 

      Power, Scott; Sadler, Brian; Nicholls, Neville (American Meteorological Society, 2005)
      Water flow into dams that supply Perth in Western Australia (WA) has fallen by 50% since the mid-1970s, and this has severely tested water managers. Climate change scenarios available since the 1980s have suggested that ...

    • Supplement to: The May 2003 Extended Tornado Outbreak 

      Hamill, Thomas M.; Schneider, Russell S.; Brooks, Harold E.; Forbes, Gregory S.; Bluestein, Howard B.; Steinberg, Michael; Meléndez, Daniel; Dole, Randall M. (American Meteorological Society, 2005)

    • Supplement to: The May 2003 Extended Tornado Outbreak 

      Hamill, Thomas M.; Schneider, Russell S.; Brooks, Harold E.; Forbes, Gregory S.; Bluestein, Howard B.; Steinberg, Michael; Meléndez, Daniel; Dole, Randall M. (American Meteorological Society, 2005)

    • The Impact of Land–Atmosphere Interactions on the Benson, Minnesota, Tornado of 11 June 2001 

      Cheresnick, Daniel R.; Basara, Jeffrey B. (American Meteorological Society, 2005)
      No Abstract Available.

    • A Bad Air Day in Houston 

      Banta, R. M.; Senff, C. J.; Nielsen-Gammon, J.; Darby, L. S.; Ryerson, T. B.; Alvarez, R. J.; Sandberg, S. P.; Williams, E. J.; Trainer, M. (American Meteorological Society, 2005)
      A case study from the Texas Air Quality Study 2000 field campaign illustrates the complex interaction of meteorological and chemical processes that produced a high-pollution event in the Houston area on 30 August 2000. ...

    • Weather Modification: Finding Common Ground 

      Garstang, Michael; Bruintjes, Roelof; Serafin, Robert; Orville, Harold; Boe, Bruce; Cotton, William; Warburton, Joseph (American Meteorological Society, 2005)
      Research and operational approaches to weather modification expressed in the National Research Council's 2003 report on ?Critical Issues in Weather Modification Research? and in the Weather Modification Association's ...

    • Achievement of USWRP Hurricane Landfall Research Goal 

      Elsberry, Russell L. (American Meteorological Society, 2005)
      No Abstract Available.

    • Reconstruction of Historical Climate in China: High-Resolution Precipitation Data from Qing Dynasty Archives 

      Ge, Q-S.; Zheng, J-Y.; Hao, Z-X.; Zhang, P-Y.; Wang, W-C. (American Meteorological Society, 2005)
      Chinese historical documents that contain descriptions of weather conditions can be used for studying climate of the past hundreds or even thousands of years. In this study, the progress of reconstructing a 273-station ...

    • A Renaissance Depiction of a Tornado 

      Hoinka, Klaus P.; de Castro, Manuel (American Meteorological Society, 2005)
      In the Renaissance, impressive weather features inspired considerable interest among artists. The depiction of a tornado and other weather features are discussed that appear on a sixteenth-century series of 12 huge tapestries ...

    • Quantum Reality, Complex Numbers, and the Meteorological Butterfly Effect 

      Palmer, T. N. (American Meteorological Society, 2005)
      Meteorology is a wonderfully interdisciplinary subject. But can nonlinear thinking about predictability of weather and climate contribute usefully to issues in fundamental physics? Although this might seem extremely unlikely ...

    • The May 2003 Extended Tornado Outbreak 

      Hamill, Thomas M.; Schneider, Russell S.; Brooks, Harold E.; Forbes, Gregory S.; Bluestein, Howard B.; Steinberg, Michael; Meléndez, Daniel; Dole, Randall M. (American Meteorological Society, 2005)
      In May 2003 there was a very destructive extended outbreak of tornadoes across the central and eastern United States. More than a dozen tornadoes struck each day from 3 May to 11 May 2003. This outbreak caused 41 fatalities, ...

    • Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Applications: An Inquiry into Atmospheric Science Teaching 

      Roebber, Paul J. (American Meteorological Society, 2005)
      Difficulties associated with the teaching of complex subjects such as the atmospheric sciences create obstacles to learning and lead to relatively high rates of student attrition. An exploration of the role of mismatches ...

    • Microclimate Exposures of Surface-Based Weather Stations: Implications For The Assessment of Long-Term Temperature Trends 

      Davey, Christopher A.; Pielke, Roger A. (American Meteorological Society, 2005)
      The U.S. Historical Climate Network is a subset of surface weather observation stations selected from the National Weather Service cooperative station network. The criteria used to select these stations do not sufficiently ...

    • CULTURE: Bob Dylan and Weather Imagery 

      Robock, Alan (American Meteorological Society, 2005)
      No Abstract Available.

    • Improving the Usefulness of Operational Radiosonde Data 

      Durre, Imke; Reale, Tony; Carlson, David; Christy, John; Uddstrom, Michael; Gelman, Melvyn; Thorne, Peter (American Meteorological Society, 2005)
      and Contributions from 23 additional Workshop participants The Workshop to Improve the Usefulness of Operational Radiosonde Data was held at the NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, North Carolina, from ...

    • Assimilation and Modeling of the Atmospheric Hydrological Cycle in the ECMWF Forecasting System 

      Andersson, Erik; Bauer, Peter; Beljaars, Anton; Chevallier, Frederic; Hólm, Elías; Janisková, Marta; Kållberg, Per; Kelly, Graeme; Lopez, Philippe; Mcnally, Anthony; Moreau, Emmanuel; Simmons, Adrian J.; Thépaut, Jean-Noël; Tompkins, Adrian M. (American Meteorological Society, 2005)
      Several new types of satellite instrument will provide improved measurements of Earth's hydrological cycle and the humidity of the atmosphere. In an effort to make the best possible use of these data, the modeling and ...

    • Comments on “Microclimate Exposures of Surface-Based Weather Stations” 

      Vose, Russell S.; Easterling, David R.; Karl, Thomas R.; Helfert, Michael (American Meteorological Society, 2005)
      No Abstract Available.

    • NOAA'S Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service: Building Pathways for Better Science in Water Forecasting 

      Mcenery, John; Ingram, John; Duan, Qingyun; Adams, Thomas; Anderson, Lee (American Meteorological Society, 2005)
      The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS) Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (AHPS) program was established to meet our nation's need for more precise flash-flood forecast ...

    • Jim Angell's Contributions to Meteorology 

      Seidel, Dian; Angell, James; Hicks, Bruce; Robock, Alan; Labitzke, Karin; Lanzante, John; Ramaswamy, V.; Logan, Jennifer; Mahlman, Jerry; Randel, William; Rasmusson, Eugene; Ross, Rebecca; Singer, S. Fred (American Meteorological Society, 2005)
      No Abstract Available.

    • The Doe Water Cycle Pilot Study 

      Miller, N. L.; King, A. W.; Miller, M. A.; Springer, E. P.; Wesely, M. L.; Bashford, K. E.; Conrad, M. E.; Costigan, K.; Foster, P. N.; Gibbs, H. K.; Jin, J.; Klazura, J.; Lesht, B. M.; Machavaram, M. V.; Pan, F.; Song, J.; Troyan, D.; Washington-Allen, R. A. (American Meteorological Society, 2005)
      A Department of Energy (DOE) multilaboratory Water Cycle Pilot Study (WCPS) investigated components of the local water budget at the Walnut River watershed in Kansas to study the relative importance of various processes ...