Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Convective-Scale Warn-on-Forecast System 

      Stensrud, David J.; Wicker, Louis J.; Kelleher, Kevin E.; Xue, Ming; Foster, Michael P.; Schaefer, Joseph T.; Schneider, Russell S.; Benjamin, Stanley G.; Weygandt, Stephen S.; Ferree, John T.; Tuell, Jason P. (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) National Weather Service (NWS) issues warnings for severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, and flash floods because these phenomena are a threat to life and property. ...

    • An Overview of a New Chinese Weather Satellite FY-3A 

      Dong, Chaohua; Yang, Jun; Yang, Zhongdong; Lu, Naimeng; Shi, Jinming; Zhang, Peng; Liu, Yujie; Cai, Bin; Zhang, Wenjian (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      FengYun-3A (FY-3A), the first satellite in the second generation of the Chinese polar-orbiting meteorological satellites, was launched at Taiyuan, China, launching center on 27 May 2008. Equipped with both sounding and ...

    • CHANGES OF ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OVER BEIJING—2008 Olympic Monitoring Campaign 

      Zhang, X. Y.; Wang, Y. Q.; Lin, W. L.; Zhang, Y. M.; Zhang, X. C.; Zhao, P.; Yang, Y. Q.; Wang, J. Z.; Hou, Q.; Che, H. Z.; Guo, J. P.; Li, Y.; Gong, S.; Zhang, X. L. (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      Before and during the 2008 Beijing Olympics from June to September, ground-based and satellite monitoring were carried out over Beijing and its vicinity (BIV) in a campaign to quantify the outcomes of various emission ...

    • AMMA-Model Intercomparison Project 

      Hourdin, Frédéric; Musat, Ionela; Grandpeix, Jean-Yves; Polcher, Jan; Guichard, Françoise; Favot, Florence; Marquet, Pascal; Boone, Aaron; Lafore, Jean-Philippe; Redelsperger, Jean-Luc; Ruti, Paolo Michele; Dell'aquila, Alessandro; Filiberti*, Marie-Angèle; Pham, Maï; Doval, Teresa Losada; Traore, Abdoul Khadre; Gallée, Hubert (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      The African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses-Model Intercomparison Project (AMMA-MIP) was developed within the framework of the AMMA project. It is a relatively light intercomparison and evaluation exercise of both global ...

    • The AMMA Land Surface Model Intercomparison Project (ALMIP) 

      Boone, Aaron; Decharme, Bertrand; Guichard, Françoise; de Rosnay, Patricia; Balsamo, Gianpaolo; Beljaars, Anton; Chopin, Franck; Orgeval, Tristan; Polcher, Jan; Delire, Christine; Ducharne, Agnes; Gascoin, Simon; Grippa, Manuela; Jarlan, Lionel; Kergoat, Laurent; Mougin, Eric; Gusev, Yeugeniy; Nasonova, Olga; Harris, Phil; Taylor, Christopher; Norgaard, Anette; Sandholt, Inge; Ottlé, Catherine; Poccard-Leclercq, Isabelle; Saux-Picart, Stephane; Xue, Yongkang (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      The rainfall over West Africa has been characterized by extreme variability in the last half-century, with prolonged droughts resulting in humanitarian crises. There is, therefore, an urgent need to better understand and ...

    • Minding the Weather 

      Stewart, Alan E. (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      Weather salience is a construct that pertains to the psychological value, significance, and attunement that people have for the weather and its changes. In this article the author describes the construct of weather salience ...

    • Weather Forecast Uncertainty Information 

      Demuth, Julie L.; Lazo, Jeffrey K.; Morrow, Betty Hearn (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      No Abstract available.

    • Decadal Prediction 

      Meehl, Gerald A.; Goddard, Lisa; Murphy, James; Stouffer, Ronald J.; Boer, George; Danabasoglu, Gokhan; Dixon, Keith; Giorgetta, Marco A.; Greene, Arthur M.; Hawkins, Ed; Hegerl, Gabriele; Karoly, David; Keenlyside, Noel; Kimoto, Masahide; Kirtman, Ben; Navarra, Antonio; Pulwarty, Roger; Smith, Doug; Stammer, Detlef; Stockdale, Timothy (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      A new field of study, ?decadal prediction,? is emerging in climate science. Decadal prediction lies between seasonal/interannual forecasting and longer-term climate change projections, and focuses on time-evolving regional ...

    • PROBCAST: A Web-Based Portal to Mesoscale Probabilistic Forecasts 

      Mass, Clifford; Baars, Jeff; Joslyn, Susan; Pyle, John; Tewson, Patrick; Jones, David; Gneiting, Tilmann; Raftery, Adrian; Sloughter, J. M.; Fraley, Chris (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      This paper describes the University of Washington Probability Forecast (PROBCAST), a Web-based portal to probabilistic weather predictions over the Pacific Northwest. PROBCAST products are derived from the output of a ...

    • Impacts of Land Use/Land Cover Change on Climate and Future Research Priorities 

      Mahmood, Rezaul; Quintanar, Arturo I.; Conner, Glen; Leeper, Ronnie; Dobler, Scott; Pielke, Roger A.; Beltran-Przekurat, Adriana; Hubbard, Kenneth G.; Niyogi, Dev; Bonan, Gordon; Lawrence, Peter; Chase, Thomas; McNider, Richard; Wu, Yuling; McAlpine, Clive; Deo, Ravinesh; Etter, Andres; Gameda, Samuel; Qian, Budong; Carleton, Andrew; Adegoke, Jimmy O.; Vezhapparambu, Sajith; Asefi, Salvi; Nair, Udaysankar S.; Sertel, Elif; Legates, David R.; Hale, Robert; Frauenfeld, Oliver W.; Watts, Anthony; Shepherd, Marshall; Mitra, Chandana; Anantharaj, Valentine G.; Fall, Souleymane; Chang, Hsin-I.; Lund, Robert; Treviño, Anna; Blanken, Peter; Du, Jinyang; Syktus, Jozef (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      No Abstract available.

    • Supplement to MAP D-PHASE: Real-Time Demonstration of Weather Forecast Quality in the Alpine Region: Additional Applications of the D-Phase Datasets 

      Rotach, Mathias W.; Ambrosetti, Paolo; Appenzeller, Christof; Arpagaus, Marco; Fontannaz, Lionel; Fundel, Felix; Germann, Urs; Hering, Alessandro; Liniger, Mark A.; Stoll, Marco; Walser, Andre; Ament, Felix; Bauer, Hans-Stefan; Behrendt, Andreas; Wulfmeyer, Volker; Bouttier, François; Seity, Yann; Buzzi, Andrea; Davolio, Silvio; Corazza, Matteo; Denhard, Michael; Dorninger, Manfred; Gorgas, Theresa; Frick, Jacqueline; Hegg, Christoph; Zappa, Massimiliano; Keil, Christian; Volkert, Hans; Marsigli, Chiara; Montaini, Andrea; McTaggart-Cowan, Ron; Mylne, Ken; Ranzi, Roberto; Richard, Evelyne; Rossa, Andrea; Santos-Muñoz, Daniel; Schär, Christoph; Staudinger, Michael; Wang, Yong; Werhahn, Johannes (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      No Abstract available.

    • MAP D-PHASE: Real-Time Demonstration of Weather Forecast Quality in the Alpine Region 

      Rotach, Mathias W.; Ambrosetti, Paolo; Appenzeller, Christof; Arpagaus, Marco; Fontannaz, Lionel; Fundel, Felix; Germann, Urs; Hering, Alessandro; Liniger, Mark A.; Stoll, Marco; Walser, Andre; Ament, Felix; Bauer, Hans-Stefan; Behrendt, Andreas; Wulfmeyer, Volker; Bouttier, François; Seity, Yann; Buzzi, Andrea; Davolio, Silvio; Corazza, Matteo; Denhard, Michael; Dorninger, Manfred; Gorgas, Theresa; Frick, Jacqueline; Hegg, Christoph; Zappa, Massimiliano; Keil, Christian; Volkert, Hans; Marsigli, Chiara; Montaini, Andrea; McTaggart-Cowan, Ron; Mylne, Ken; Ranzi, Roberto; Richard, Evelyne; Rossa, Andrea; Santos-Muñoz, Daniel; Schär, Christoph; Staudinger, Michael; Wang, Yong; Werhahn, Johannes (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      Demonstration of probabilistic hydrological and atmospheric simulation of flood events in the Alpine region (D-PHASE) is made by the Forecast Demonstration Project in connection with the Mesoscale Alpine Programme (MAP). ...

    • The Thermohaline Circulation and Tropical Cyclones in Past, Present, and Future Climates 

      Done, James; Hu, Aixue; Farmer, E. Christa; Yin, Jianjun; Bates, Susan; Frappier, Amy B.; Halkides, Daria J.; Kilbourne, K. Halimeda; Sriver, Ryan; Woodruff, Jonathan (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      No Abstract available.

    • The Concordiasi Project in Antarctica 

      Rabier, Florence; Bouchard, Aurélie; Brun, Eric; Doerenbecher, Alexis; Guedj, Stéphanie; Guidard, Vincent; Karbou, Fatima; Peuch, Vincent-Henri; El Amraoui, Laaziz; Puech, Dominique; Genthon, Christophe; Picard, Ghislain; Town, Michael; Hertzog, Albert; Vial, François; Cocquerez, Philippe; Cohn, Stephen A.; Hock, Terry; Fox, Jack; Cole, Hal; Parsons, David; Powers, Jordan; Romberg, Keith; VanAndel, Joseph; Deshler, Terry; Mercer, Jennifer; Haase, Jennifer S.; Avallone, Linnea; Kalnajs, Lars; Mechoso, C. Roberto; Tangborn, Andrew; Pellegrini, Andrea; Frenot, Yves; Thépaut, Jean-Noël; McNally, Anthony; Balsamo, Gianpaolo; Steinle, Peter (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      The Concordiasi project is making innovative observations of the atmosphere above Antarctica. The most important goals of the Concordiasi are as follows: To enhance the accuracy of weather prediction and climate records ...

    • Education 

      Nielsen-Gammon, John W.; Avilés, Lourdes B.; Joseph, Everette (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      The AMS's Board on Higher Education undertook a survey of atmospheric science graduate programs in the United States and Canada during the fall and winter of 2007?08. The survey involved admission data for the three previous ...

    • Radiation and Ozone 

      Ohring, G.; Bojkov, R. D.; Bolle, H-J.; Hudson, R. D.; Volkert, H. (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      Radiation is the driving force for the general circulation of the atmosphere and controls the Earth's climate. Ozone is responsible for the warm stratosphere and protects life on Earth from harmful solar ultraviolet ...

    • What Does It Take to Get Into Graduate School? A Survey of Atmospheric Science Programs: Appendix 

      Nielsen-Gammon, John W.; Avilés, Lourdes B.; Joseph, Everette (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      No Abstract available.

    • A Reassessment of U.S. Lightning Mortality 

      Ashley, Walker S.; Gilson, Christopher W. (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      Lightning is a unique weather hazard when compared to other perils such as tornadoes, flash floods, and hurricanes since lightning itself does not constitute a criterion for a severe event according to National Weather ...

    • RADAR-Rainfall Uncertainties 

      Krajewski, Witold F.; Villarini, Gabriele; Smith, James A. (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      Thirty years ago, Wilson and Brandes determined that radar data was ?underutilized and both confusion and misunderstanding exist about the inherent ability of radar to measure rainfall, about factors that contribute to ...

    • Weather Radar Education at the University of Oklahoma--An Integrated Interdisciplinary Approach 

      Palmer, Robert; Biggerstaff, Michael; Chilson, Phillip; Zhang, Guifu; Yeary, Mark; Crain, Jerry; Yu, Tian-You; Zhang, Yan; Droegemeier, Kelvin; Hong, Yang; Ryzhkov, Alexander; Schuur, Terry; Torres, Sebastián (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      No Abstract available.