Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Results Of A Panel Discussion About The Energy Balance Closure Correction For Trace Gases 

      Foken, Thomas; Aubinet, Marc; Finnigan, John J.; Leclerc, Monique Y.; Mauder, Mattthias; Paw U, Kyaw Tha (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
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    • Summer Peak, Winter Minimum, and Growth in the Demand for Online Weather Services in Australia 

      Power, Scott B.; Delage, François (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
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    • Calibration Strategies: A Source of Additional Uncertainty in Climate Change Projections 

      Ho, Chun Kit; Stephenson, David B.; Collins, Matthew; Ferro, Christopher A. T.; Brown, Simon J. (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
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    • The “Year” of Tropical Convection (May 2008–April 2010): Climate Variability and Weather Highlights 

      Waliser, Duane E.; Moncrieff, Mitchell W.; Burridge, David; Fink, Andreas H.; Gochis, Dave; Goswami, B. N.; Guan, Bin; Harr, Patrick; Heming, Julian; Hsu, Huang-Hsuing; Jakob, Christian; Janiga, Matt; Johnson, Richard; Jones, Sarah; Knippertz, Peter; Marengo, Jose; Nguyen, Hanh; Pope, Mick; Serra, Yolande; Thorncroft, Chris; Wheeler, Matthew; Wood, Robert; Yuter, Sandra (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      sentation of tropical convection remains a serious challenge to the skillfulness of our weather and climate prediction systems. To address this challenge, the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and The Observing System ...

    • NOAA's Future Ensemble-Based Hurricane Forecast Products 

      Hamill, Thomas M.; Brennan, Michael J.; Brown, Barbara; DeMaria, Mark; Rappaport, Edward N.; Toth, Zoltan (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      ty information from ensemble prediction systems can enhance and extend the suite of tropical cyclone (TC) forecast products. This article will review progress in ensemble prediction of TCs and the scientific issues in ...

    • Regional Climate Models Add Value to Global Model Data: A Review and Selected Examples 

      Feser, Frauke; Rockel, Burkhardt; von Storch, Hans; Winterfeldt, Jörg; Zahn, Matthias (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      ant challenge in current climate modeling is to realistically describe small-scale weather statistics, such as topographic precipitation and coastal wind patterns, or regional phenomena like polar lows. Global climate ...

    • DOW Radar Observations of Wind Farms 

      Toth, Mallie; Jones, Erin; Pittman, Dustin; Solomon, David (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      h of the wind industry in recent years has motivated investigation into wind farm interference with the operation of the nationwide Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) network. Observations of a wind farm ...

    • Who's Googling What? What Internet Searches Reveal about Hurricane Information Seeking 

      Sherman-Morris, Kathleen; Senkbeil, Jason; Carver, Robert (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      y available, searchable databases that track the normalized interest in specific search queries, Google Trends and Google Insights, were used to illustrate spatial and temporal patterns in hurricane information seeking. ...

    • The Collaborative Colorado–Nebraska Unmanned Aircraft System Experiment 

      Houston, Adam L.; Argrow, Brian; Elston, Jack; Lahowetz, Jamie; Frew, Eric W.; Kennedy, Patrick C. (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      borative Colorado?Nebraska Unmanned Aircraft System Experiment (CoCoNUE) was executed on 1 March and 30 September 2009. The principal objective of this project was to examine the feasibility of using a small unmanned ...

    • Satellite Finds Highest Land Skin Temperatures on Earth 

      Mildrexler, David J.; Zhao, Maosheng; Running, Steven W. (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
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    • Globally Gridded Satellite Observations for Climate Studies 

      Knapp, Kenneth R.; Ansari, Steve; Bain, Caroline L.; Bourassa, Mark A.; Dickinson, Michael J.; Funk, Chris; Helms, Chip N.; Hennon, Christopher C.; Holmes, Christopher D.; Huffman, George J.; Kossin, James P.; Lee, Hai-Tien; Loew, Alexander; Magnusdottir, Gudrun (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      nary satellites have provided routine, high temporal resolution Earth observations since the 1970s. Despite the long period of record, use of these data in climate studies has been limited for numerous reasons, among them ...

    • Forecasting the Wind to Reach Significant Penetration Levels of Wind Energy 

      Marquis, Melinda; Wilczak, Jim; Ahlstrom, Mark; Sharp, Justin; Stern, Andrew; Smith, J. Charles; Calvert, Stan (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      in atmospheric science are critical to increased deployment of variable renewable energy (VRE) sources. For VRE sources, such as wind and solar, to reach high penetration levels in the nation's electric grid, electric ...

    • COLPEX: Field and Numerical Studies over a Region of Small Hills 

      Price, J. D.; Vosper, S.; Brown, A.; Ross, A.; Clark, P.; Davies, F.; Horlacher, V.; Claxton, B.; McGregor, J. R.; Hoare, J. S.; Jemmett-Smith, B.; Sheridan, P. (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      able nighttime periods, large variations in temperature and visibility often occur over short distances in regions of only moderate topography. These are of great practical significance and yet pose major forecasting ...

    • The Integrated Surface Database: Recent Developments and Partnerships 

      Smith, Adam; Lott, Neal; Vose, Russ (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
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    • CHANGE: A Place-Based Curriculum for Understanding Climate Change at Storm Peak Laboratory, Colorado 

      Hallar, A. Gannet; McCubbin, Ian B.; Wright, Jennifer M. (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      m in High Altitude Environments for Teaching Global Climate Change Education (CHANGE) uses place-based education to teach middle school students about meteorology and climate as a basis to improve climate science literacy. ...

    • An Ocean Observing and Prediction Experiment in Prince William Sound, Alaska 

      Schoch, G. Carl; Chao, Yi; Colas, Francois; Farrara, John; McCammon, Molly; Olsson, Peter; Singhal, Gaurav (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      ving and forecasting conditions of coastal oceans in Alaska is technically challenging because of the mountainous terrain, the notoriously stormy seas, and a complex hydrological system of freshwater from rivers and glaciers. ...

    • Celebrating Two Decades of the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison 

      Potter, Gerald L.; Bader, David C.; Riches, Michael; Bamzai, Anjuli; Joseph, Renu (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
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    • U.S. Economic Sensitivity to Weather Variability 

      Lazo, Jeffrey K.; Lawson, Megan; Larsen, Peter H.; Waldman, Donald M. (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      te the economic effects of weather variability in the United States, the authors define and measure weather sensitivity as the variability in economic output that is attributable to weather variability, accounting for ...

    • The Understanding Severe Thunderstorms and Alberta Boundary Layers Experiment (UNSTABLE) 2008 

      Taylor, Neil M.; Sills, David M. L.; Hanesiak, John M.; Milbrandt, Jason A.; Smith, Craig D.; Strong, Geoff S.; Skone, Susan H.; McCarthy, Patrick J.; Brimelow, Julian C. (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      understorms are a common occurrence in summer on the Canadian prairies, with a large number originating along the Alberta, Canada, foothills, just east of the Rocky Mountains. Most of these storms move eastward to affect ...

    • SPECIAL—Savanna Patterns of Energy and Carbon Integrated across the Landscape 

      Beringer, Jason; Hacker, Jorg; Hutley, Lindsay B.; Leuning, Ray; Arndt, Stefan K.; Amiri, Reza; Bannehr, Lutz; Cernusak, Lucas A.; Grover, Samantha; Hensley, Carol; Hocking, Darren; Isaac, Peter; Jamali, Hizbullah; Kanniah, Kasturi; Livesley, Stephen; Neininger, Bruno; Paw U, Kyaw Tha; Sea, William; Straten, Dennis; Tapper, Nigel; Weinmann, Richard; Wood, Stephen; Zegelin, Steve (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      are highly significant global ecosystems that consist of a mix of trees and grasses and that are highly spatially varied in their physical structure, species composition, and physiological function (i.e., leaf area and ...