Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Have Disaster Losses Increased Due to Anthropogenic Climate Change? 

      Bouwer, Laurens M. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      The increasing impact of natural disasters over recent decades has been well documented, especially the direct economic losses and losses that were insured. Claims are made by some that climate change has caused more losses, ...

    • Dust and Black Carbon in Seasonal Snow Across Northern China 

      Huang, Jianping; Fu, Qiang; Zhang, Wu; Wang, Xin; Zhang, Rudong; Ye, Hao; Warren, Stephen G. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      Snow is the most reflective natural surface on Earth. Its albedo (the fraction of sunlight reflected) can be reduced by small amounts of dark impurities such as dust and black carbon (BC) particles. This effect is significant ...

    • “Climategate” Undermined Belief in Global Warming Among Many American TV Meteorologists 

      Maibach, Edward; Witte, James; Wilson, Kristopher (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      Television (TV) meteorologists are a potentially important source of informal climate change education in that most American adults watch local TV news and consider TV weather reporters to be a trusted source of global ...

    • Power from the Florida Current: A New Perspective on an Old Vision 

      Hanson, Howard P.; Skemp, Susan H.; Alsenas, Gabriel M.; Coley, Camille E. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      No Abstract available.

    • The Juneau Terrain-Induced Turbulence Alert System 

      Politovich, Marcia K.; Goodrich, R. Kent; Morse, Corrinne S.; Yates, Alan; Barron, Robert; Cohn, Steven A. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      The Juneau, Alaska, airport vicinity experiences frequent episodes of moderate and severe turbulence, which affect arriving and departing air traffic. The Federal Aviation Administration funded the National Center for ...

    • Influence of Choice of Time Period on Global Surface Temperature Trend Estimates 

      Liebmann, Brant; Dole, Randall M.; Jones, Charles; Bladé, Ileana; Allured, Dave (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      Annual global surface temperature and global land surface temperature trends are calculated for all possible periods of the historical record between 1850 and 2009. Two-dimensional parameter diagrams show the critical ...

    • Decadal Climate Predictability and Prediction: Where Are We? 

      Mehta, Vikram; Meehl, Gerald; Goddard, Lisa; Knight, Jeff; Kumar, Arun; Latif, Mojib; Lee, Tong; Rosati, Anthony; Stammer, Detlef (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
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    • A University Laboratory Course to Improve Scientific Communication Skills 

      Schultz, David M. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      A 14-week laboratory course at the University of Helsinki was offered to improve undergraduate and graduate students' writing and speaking skills, as well as their scientific skills. To emphasize active learning, the course ...

    • Predicting Storm-triggered Landslides 

      Ren, Diandong; Fu, Rong; Leslie, Lance M.; Dickinson, Robert E. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      An overview of storm-triggered landslides is presented. Then a recently developed and extensively verified landslide modeling system is used to illustrate the importance of two important but presently overlooked mechanisms ...

    • The First Regional Mesonet Workshop 

      Pasken, Robert; Jewett, Brian (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
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    • Occluded Fronts and the Occlusion Process: A Fresh Look at Conventional Wisdom 

      Schultz, David M.; Vaughan, Geraint (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      ally, the formation of an occluded front during the occlusion process in extratropical cyclones has been viewed as the catch-up of a faster-moving cold front to a slower-moving warm front separating the warm-sector air ...

    • Using Operational and Experimental Observations in Geoscience Education 

      Etherton, Brian J.; Arms, Sean C.; Oolman, Larry D.; Lackmann, Gary M.; Ramamurthy, Mohan K. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
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    • Addressing the Complexity of the Earth System 

      Nobre, Carlos; Brasseur, Guy P.; Shapiro, Melvyn A.; Lahsen, Myanna; Brunet, Gilbert; Busalacchi, Antonio J.; Hibbard, Kathy; Seitzinger, Sybil; Noone, Kevin; Ometto, Jean P. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      r discusses the development of a prediction system that integrates physical, biogeochemical, and societal processes in a unified Earth system framework. Such development requires collaborations among physical and social ...

    • Collaboration of the Weather and Climate Communities to Advance Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Prediction 

      Brunet, Gilbert; Shapiro, Melvyn; Hoskins, Brian; Moncrieff, Mitch; Dole, Randall; Kiladis, George N.; Kirtman, Ben; Lorenc, Andrew; Mills, Brian; Morss, Rebecca; Polavarapu, Saroja; Rogers, David; Schaake, John; Shukla, Jagadish (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      Weather Research Programme (WWRP) and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) have identified collaborations and scientific priorities to accelerate advances in analysis and prediction at subseasonal-to-seasonal time ...

    • An Overview of Synoptic and Mesoscale Factors Contributing to the Disastrous Atlanta Flood of 2009 

      Shepherd, Marshall; Mote, Thomas; Dowd, John; Roden, Mike; Knox, Pamela; McCutcheon, Steven C.; Nelson, Steven E. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
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    • The Untold Story of Pyrocumulonimbus 

      Fromm, Michael; Lindsey, Daniel T.; Servranckx, René; Yue, Glenn; Trickl, Thomas; Sica, Robert; Doucet, Paul; Godin-Beekmann, Sophie (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      Wildfire is becoming the focus of increasing attention. It is now realized that changes in the occurrence frequency and intensity of wildfires has important significant consequences for a variety of important problems, ...

    • The CALIPSO Mission: A Global 3D View of Aerosols and Clouds 

      Winker, D. M.; Pelon, J.; Coakley, J. A.; Ackerman, S. A.; Charlson, R. J.; Colarco, P. R.; Flamant, P.; Fu, Q.; Hoff, R. M.; Kittaka, C.; Kubar, T. L.; Le Treut, H.; McCormick, M. P.; Mégie, G.; Poole, L.; Powell, K.; Trepte, C.; Vaughan, M. A.; Wielicki, B. A. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      Aerosols and clouds have important effects on Earth's climate through their effects on the radiation budget and the cycling of water between the atmosphere and Earth's surface. Limitations in our understanding of the global ...

    • Toward a New Cloud Analysis and Prediction System 

      Auligné, T.; Lorenc, A.; Michel, Y.; Montmerle, T.; Jones, A.; Hu, M.; Dudhia, J. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      No Abstract available.

    • Climate, Weather, and Tourism: Issues and Opportunities 

      Curtis, Scott; Long, Patrick; Arrigo, Jennifer (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      No abstract available.

    • A Multiscalar Global Drought Dataset: The SPEIbase: A New Gridded Product for the Analysis of Drought Variability and Impacts 

      Beguería, Santiago; Vicente-Serrano, Sergio M.; Angulo-Martínez, Marta (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      ct available.