Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Reaching Scientific Consensus Through a Competition 

      Lakshmanan, Valliappa; Elmore, Kimberly L.; Richman, Michael B. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      ct available.

    • The Great 2008 Chinese Ice Storm: Its Socioeconomic–Ecological Impact and Sustainability Lessons Learned 

      Zhou, Benzhi; Gu, Lianhong; Ding, Yihui; Shao, Lan; Wu, Zhongmin; Yang, Xiaosheng; Li, Changzhu; Li, Zhengcai; Wang, Xiaoming; Cao, Yonghui; Zeng, Bingshan; Yu, Mukui; Wang, Mingyu; Wang, Shengkun; Sun, Honggang; Duan, Aiguo; An, Yanfei; Wang, Xu; Kong, Weijian (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      Extreme events often expose vulnerabilities of socioeconomic infrastructures and point to directions of much-needed policy change. Integrated impact assessment of such events can lead to finding of sustainability principles. ...

    • PARTNERSHIPS: Increasing Research Opportunities in the Atmospheric Sciences for Underrepresented Groups Through International Field Experiences in Senegal 

      Jenkins, Gregory S.; Gaye, Amadou T. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      No Abstract available.

    • The Aerosol Modeling Testbed: A Community Tool to Objectively Evaluate Aerosol Process Modules 

      Fast, Jerome D.; Gustafson, William I.; Chapman, Elaine G.; Easter, Richard C.; Rishel, Jeremy P.; Zaveri, Rahul A.; Grell, Georg A.; Barth, Mary C. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      The current paradigm of developing and testing new aerosol process modules is haphazard and slow. Aerosol modules are often tested for short simulation periods using limited data so that their overall performance over a ...

    • The Earliest Documented Tornado in the Americas 

      Fuentes, Oscar Velasco (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      This paper discusses a meteorological phenomenon that occurred in the Basin of Mexico in August 1521. The only known description appears in Book XII of the Florentine Codex, which is an account of the Spanish conquest of ...

    • A Framework for Assessing Operational Madden–Julian Oscillation Forecasts: A CLIVAR MJO Working Group Project 

      Gottschalck, J.; Wheeler, M.; Weickmann, K.; Vitart, F.; Savage, N.; Lin, H.; Hendon, H.; Waliser, D.; Sperber, K.; Nakagawa, M.; Prestrelo, C.; Flatau, M.; Higgins, W. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      The U.S. Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) MJO Working Group (MJOWG) has taken steps to promote the adoption of a uniform diagnostic and set of skill metrics for analyzing and assessing dynamical forecasts ...

    • Verifying Forecasts Spatially 

      Gilleland, Eric; Ahijevych, David A.; Brown, Barbara G.; Ebert, Elizabeth E. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      new methods have been proposed for using spatial information to better quantify and diagnose forecast performance when forecasts and observations are both available on the same grid. The majority of the new spatial ...

    • Teaching Upper-Atmospheric Meteorology Using Two- and Three-Dimensional Models: A Pilot Study 

      Hawkins, Timothy W.; Kiphart, Kayla J.; Smith, Janet S. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      No abstract available. A supplement to this article is available online: DOI: 10.1175/2010BAMS2825.2

    • Weather and Climate Risk Management in the Energy Sector 

      Troccoli, Alberto; Boulahya, Mohammed S.; Dutton, John A.; Furlow, John; Gurney, Robert J.; Harrison, Mike (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      No abstract available.

    • The THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble 

      Bougeault, Philippe; Toth, Zoltan; Bishop, Craig; Brown, Barbara; Burridge, David; Chen, De Hui; Ebert, Beth; Fuentes, Manuel; Hamill, Thomas M.; Mylne, Ken; Nicolau, Jean; Paccagnella, Tiziana; Park, Young-Youn; Parsons, David; Raoult, Baudouin; Schuster, Doug; Dias, Pedro Silva; Swinbank, Richard; Takeuchi, Yoshiaki; Tennant, Warren; Wilson, Laurence; Worley, Steve (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      Ensemble forecasting is increasingly accepted as a powerful tool to improve early warnings for high-impact weather. Recently, ensembles combining forecasts from different systems have attracted a considerable level of ...

    • Satellite Data Simulator Unit: A Multisensor, Multispectral Satellite Simulator Package 

      Masunaga, Hirohiko; Matsui, Toshihisa; Tao, Wei-Kuo; Hou, Arthur Y.; Kummerow, Christian D.; Nakajima, Teruyuki; Bauer, Peter; Olson, William S.; Sekiguchi, Miho; Nakajima, Takashi Y. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      No Abstract available.

    • The Evolution and Current State of the Atmospheric Sciences “Pipeline” 

      Hartten, Leslie M.; LeMone, Margaret A. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      No Abstract available.

    • The Canopy Horizontal Array Turbulence Study 

      Patton, Edward G.; Horst, Thomas W.; Sullivan, Peter P.; Lenschow, Donald H.; Oncley, Steven P.; Brown, William O. J.; Burns, Sean P.; Guenther, Alex B.; Held, Andreas; Karl, Thomas; Mayor, Shane D.; Rizzo, Luciana V.; Spuler, Scott M.; Sun, Jielun; Turnipseed, Andrew A.; Allwine, Eugene J.; Edburg, Steven L.; Lamb, Brian K.; Avissar, Roni; Calhoun, Ronald J.; Kleissl, Jan; Massman, William J.; Paw U, Kyaw Tha; Weil, Jeffrey C. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      y Horizontal Array Turbulence Study (CHATS) took place in spring 2007 and is the third in the series of Horizontal Array Turbulence Study (HATS) experiments. The HATS experiments have been instrumental in testing and ...

    • The Hidden Role of Women in Monitoring Nineteenth-Century African Weather: Instrumental Observations in Equatorial Guinea 

      Gallego, M. Cruz; Domínguez-Castro, Fernando; Vaquero, José M.; García-Herrera, Ricardo (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      Some of the first systematic meteorological observations in Africa were made by two women in Equatorial Guinea in 1875. Sisters Isabel and Juliana Urquiola, together with Manuel Iradier, Isabel's husband, built a meteorological ...

    • The Videosonde System and Its Use in the Study of East Asian Monsoon Rain 

      Takahashi, Tsutomu (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      Knowledge about precipitation particles in clouds is a prerequisite for the study of precipitation and cloud electrification mechanisms. A videosonde that can inform in-cloud precipitation particle shape and charge has ...

    • Whither the Stable Boundary Layer? 

      Fernando, H. J. S.; Weil, J. C. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      No Abstract available.

    • The Nature, Theory, and Modeling of Atmospheric Planetary Boundary Layers 

      Baklanov, Alexander A.; Grisogono, Branko; Bornstein, Robert; Mahrt, Larry; Zilitinkevich, Sergej S.; Taylor, Peter; Larsen, Søren E.; Rotach, Mathias W.; Fernando, H. J. S. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      No Abstract available.

    • Weather Services, Science Advances, and the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games 

      Joe, Paul; Doyle, Chris; Wallace, Al; Cober, Stewart G.; Scott, Bill; Isaac, George A.; Smith, Trevor; Mailhot, Jocelyn; Snyder, Brad; Belair, Stephane; Jansen, Quinton; Denis, Bertrand (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      The Olympics inspire greatness. "Swifter, Higher, Stronger" applies not only to the athletes but sets the tone for everyone associated with the games, including the weather service providers. The Winter Olympic and Paralympic ...

    • Satellite Meteorology 

      Menzel, W. Paul; Phillips, Jean M. (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      No Abstract available.

    • Satellite and Radar Observations of the 9 April 2009 Texas and Oklahoma Grassfires 

      Jones, Thomas A.; Christopher, Sundar A. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      No Abstract available.