Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • The Lake Tekapo Experiment (LTEX): An Investigation of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Processes in Complex Terrain 

      Sturman, A. P.; Bradley, S.; Drummond, P.; Grant, K.; Gudiksen, P.; Kossmann, M.; McGowan, H. A.; Oliphant, A.; Owens, I. F.; Powell, S.; Spronken-Smith, R.; Zawar-Reza, P. (American Meteorological Society, 2003)
      A research program on atmospheric boundary layer processes and local wind regimes in complex terrain was conducted in the vicinity of Lake Tekapo in the southern Alps of New Zealand, during two 1-month field campaigns in ...

    • The Bjerknes' Circulation Theorem: A Historical Perspective 

      Thorpe, Alan J.; Volkert, Hans; Ziemianski, MichałJ. (American Meteorological Society, 2003)
      Two lines of thinking concerning fluid rotation?using either vorticity or circulation?emerged from the nineteenth-century work of Helmholtz and Thomson (Lord Kelvin), respectively. Vilhelm Bjerknes introduced an extension ...

    • Upward Electrical Discharges From Thunderstorm Tops 

      Lyons, Walter A.; Nelson, Thomas E.; Armstrong, Russell A.; Pasko, Victor P.; Stanley, Mark A. (American Meteorological Society, 2003)
      A variety of storm top electrical discharges have been observed using several types of low-light imagers, film, and the human eye. Recently, a video recorded an unprecedented, bright blue upward discharge from a tropical ...

    • Supplement to The WGNE Assessment of Short-term Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts 

      Ebert, Elizabeth E.; Damrath, Ulrich; Wergen, Werner; Baldwin, Michael E. (American Meteorological Society, 2003)

    • The WGNE Assessment of Short-term Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts 

      Ebert, Elizabeth E.; Damrath, Ulrich; Wergen, Werner; Baldwin, Michael E. (American Meteorological Society, 2003)
      Twenty-four-hour and 48-h quantitative precipitation forecasts (QPFs) from 11 operational numerical weather prediction models have been verified for a 4-yr period against rain gauge observations over the United States, ...

    • Ooishi's Observation: Viewed in the Context of Jet Stream Discovery 

      Lewis, John M. (American Meteorological Society, 2003)
      Although aircraft encounters with strong westerly winds during World War II provided the stimulus for postwar research on the jet stream, Wasaburo Ooishi observed these winds in the 1920s. Ooishi's work is reviewed in the ...

    • The JET2000 Project: Aircraft Observations of the African Easterly Jet and African Easterly Waves 

      Thorncroft, C. D.; Parker, D. J.; Burton, R. R.; Diop, M.; Ayers, J. H.; Barjat, H.; Devereau, S.; Diongue, A.; Dumelow, R.; Kindred, D. R.; Price, N. M.; Saloum, M.; Tayor, C. M.; Tompkins, A. M. (American Meteorological Society, 2003)
      Scientific background and motivation for the JET2000 aircraft observing campaign that took place in West Africa during the last week of August 2000 are presented. The Met Research Flight C130 aircraft made two flights along ...

    • Tracking Hurricanes 

      Elsner, James B. (American Meteorological Society, 2003)
      There is widespread concern about the recent increase in North Atlantic hurricane activity. Results here suggest that fledgling storms tracking east to west at low latitudes are more likely to reach hurricane intensity ...

    • Comments on “Trends in Low and High Cloud Boundaries and Errors in Height Determination of Cloud Boundaries” 

      Seidel, Dian J.; Durre, Imke (American Meteorological Society, 2003)
      No Abstract Available.

    • Reply 

      Chernykh, Irina V.; Alduchov, Oleg A.; Eskridge, Robert E. (American Meteorological Society, 2003)
      No Abstract Available.

    • Supplement to a Hole in the Weather Warning System 

      Wood, Vincent T.; Weisman, Robert A. (American Meteorological Society, 2003)

    • Heat Storage Within the Earth System 

      Pielke, Roger A. (American Meteorological Society, 2003)
      Observations of the earth's heat budget provide a real-world constraint on the radiative forcing which is simulated in global climate change models. Assessments, such as the IPCC, would more effectively depict changes over ...

    • Energy and Water Cycles in a High-Latitude, North-Flowing River System 

      Rouse, W. R.; Blyth, E. M.; Crawford, R. W.; Gyakum, J. R.; Janowicz, J. R.; Kochtubajda, B.; Leighton, H. G.; Marsh, P.; Martz, L.; Pietroniro, A.; Ritchie, H.; Schertzer, W. M.; Soulis, E. D.; Stewart, R. E.; Strong, G. S.; Woo, M. K. (American Meteorological Society, 2003)
      The MacKenzie Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Study, Phase 1, seeks to improve understanding of energy and water cycling in the Mackenzie River basin (MRB) and to initiate and test atmospheric, hydrologic, ...

    • The Map Room: A Structured Process for Prediction of Convection Associated with Split Cold Fronts 

      Koch, Steven E.; Mitchem, Jamie D. (American Meteorological Society, 2003)
      No Abstract Available.

    • A Hole in the Weather Warning System 

      Wood, Vincent T.; Weisman, Robert A. (American Meteorological Society, 2003)
      In this article, the problems deaf and hard of hearing people experience when attempting to accessthe weather warning systems in Oklahoma and Minnesota are documented. Deaf and hard of hearing people cannot hear CivilDefense ...

    • The New Digital Forecast Database of the National Weather Service 

      Glahn, Harry R.; Ruth, David P. (American Meteorological Society, 2003)
      The National Weather Service (NWS) has entered a new era in the production and dissemination of weather information and service to the nation. No longer are textual forecasts the primary medium of dissemination, but a ...

    • Regional Climate Research 

      Leung, L. Ruby; Mearns, Linda O.; Giorgi, Filippo; Wilby, Robert L. (American Meteorological Society, 2003)
      The Workshop on Regional Climate Research: Needs and Opportunities was held 2?4 April 2001 at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado. The workshop was cosponsored by the National Science Foundation ...

    • The Indo-U.S. Workshop on Weather and Climate Modeling 

      Singh, S. V.; Basu, S. (American Meteorological Society, 2003)
      A workshop on Weather and Climate Modelling, held in New Delhi (7?9 February 2002), India, under the aegis of the Indo?U.S. Science and Technology Forum brought together scientists involved in weather and climate modeling ...

    • The Arm Program's Water Vapor Intensive Observation Periods 

      Revercomb, H. E.; Turner, D. D.; Tobin, D. C.; Knuteson, R. O.; Feltz, W. F.; Barnard, J.; Bösenberg, J.; Clough, S.; Cook, D.; Ferrare, R.; Goldsmith, J.; Gutman, S.; Halthore, R.; Lesht, B.; Liljegren, J.; Linné, H.; Michalsky, J.; Morris, V.; Porch, W.; Richardson, S.; Schmid, B.; Splitt, M.; Van Hove, T.; Westwater, E.; Whiteman, D. (American Meteorological Society, 2003)
      A series of water vapor intensive observation periods (WVIOPs) were conducted at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) site in Oklahoma between 1996 and 2000. The goals of these WVIOPs are to characterize the accuracy ...

    • Automated Meteorological Reports from Commercial Aircraft 

      Moninger, William R.; Mamrosh, Richard D.; Pauley, Patricia M. (American Meteorological Society, 2003)
      Commercial aircraft now provide over 130,000 meteorological observations per day, including temperature,winds, and in some cases, humidity, vertical wind gust, or eddy dissipation rate (turbulence). The temperature and ...