Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Reconstructing The Trajectory of The August 1680 Hurricane From Contemporary Records 

      Wheeler, D.; García-Herrera, R.; Vaquero, J. M.; Chenoweth, M.; Mock, C. J. (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      This paper draws on a range of contemporary documentary evidence from the New and Old Worlds as well as from the oceanic regions to reconstruct the trajectory and intensity of an Atlantic hurricane from August 1680. In ...

    • Supplement to Dispersion Experiments in Central London: The 2007 DAPPLE project 

      Unknown author (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      No Abstract available.

    • SNOWMIP2: An Evaluation of Forest Snow Process Simulations 

      Essery, Richard; Rutter, Nick; Pomeroy, John; Baxter, Robert; Stähli, Manfred; Gustafsson, David; Barr, Alan; Bartlett, Paul; Elder, Kelly (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      The Northern Hemisphere has large areas that are forested and seasonally snow covered. Compared with open areas, forest canopies strongly influence interactions between the atmosphere and snow on the ground by sheltering ...

    • Stratospheric Satellites for Earth Observations 

      Pankine, Alexey; Nock, Kerry; Li, Zhanqing; Parsons, David; Purucker, Michael; Wiscombe, Warren; Weinstock, Elliot (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      Advanced, robust, yet inexpensive observational platforms and networks of platforms will make revolutionary Earth science observations possible in the next 30 years. One new platform concept that is needed is a long-duration ...

    • Dispersion Experiments in Central London: The 2007 DAPPLE project 

      Wood, Curtis R.; Barlow, Janet F.; Belcher, Stephen E.; Dobre, Adrian; Arnold, Samantha J.; Balogun, Ahmed A.; Lingard, Justin J. N.; Smalley, Robert J.; Tate, James E.; Tomlin, Alison S.; Britter, Rex E.; Cheng, Hong; Martin, Damien; Petersson, Fredrik K.; Shallcross, Dudley E.; White, Iain R.; Neophytou, Marina K.; Robins, Alan G. (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      In the event of a release of toxic gas in the center of London, emergency services personnel would need to determine quickly the extent of the area contaminated. The transport of pollutants by turbulent flow within the ...

    • The Data Assimilation Research Testbed: A Community Facility 

      Anderson, Jeffrey; Hoar, Tim; Raeder, Kevin; Liu, Hui; Collins, Nancy; Torn, Ryan; Avellano, Avelino (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      The Data Assimilation Research Testbed (DART) is an open-source community facility for data assimilation education, research, and development. DART's ensemble data assimilation algorithms, careful software engineering, and ...

    • Do Earth and Environmental Science Textbooks Promote Middle and High School Students' Conceptual Development about Climate Change? Textbooks' consideration of students' misconceptions 

      Choi, Soyoung; Niyogi, Dev; Shepardson, Daniel P.; Charusombat, Umarporn (American Meteorological Society, 2010)
      Misconceptions or a lack of relevant prior concepts can hinder students from developing an understanding of scientific concepts. Science education research suggests that building on students' prior concepts is an effective ...

    • Chinese Oceanographic Research 

      Chu, Peter C.; Li, Rongfeng (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      No Abstract available.

    • CLIMATE RESEARCH: Best Practices For Process Studies 

      Cronin, Meghan F.; Legg, Sonya; Zuidema, Paquita (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      No Abstract available.

    • Student-Proposed Cruise Captured Wakes of Oahu and Kauai Islands 

      Ma, Jian; da Silva, Sara C.; Levine, Aaron; Fuentes, Paul; Zhou, Li; Tu, Chuan-Chi; Hu, Jia; Shiromani Jayawardena, I. M.; Pessi, Antti; Yang, Yang; Carlis, Da Na (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      A four-day educational cruise navigated around the leeward side of Oahu and Kauai to observe the thermodynamic and dynamic features of the trade-wind wakes of these small islands by using weather balloons and other onboard ...

    • A Preliminary Synthesis of Modeled Climate Change Impacts on U.S. Regional Ozone Concentrations 

      Weaver, C. P.; Cooter, E.; Gilliam, R.; Gilliland, A.; Grambsch, A.; Grano, D.; Hemming, B.; Hunt, S. W.; Nolte, C.; Winner, D. A.; Liang, X-Z.; Zhu, J.; Caughey, M.; Kunkel, K.; Lin, J-T.; Tao, Z.; Williams, A.; Wuebbles, D. J.; Adams, P. J.; Dawson, J. P.; Amar, P.; He, S.; Avise, J.; Chen, J.; Cohen, R. C.; Goldstein, A. H.; Harley, R. A.; Steiner, A. L.; Tonse, S.; Guenther, A.; Lamarque, J-F.; Wiedinmyer, C.; Gustafson, W. I.; Leung, L. R.; Hogrefe, C.; Huang, H-C.; Jacob, D. J.; Mickley, L. J.; Wu, S.; Kinney, P. L.; Lamb, B.; Larkin, N. K.; McKenzie, D.; Liao, K-J.; Manomaiphiboon, K.; Russell, A. G.; Tagaris, E.; Lynn, B. H.; Mass, C.; Salathé, E.; O'neill, S. M.; Pandis, S. N.; Racherla, P. N.; Rosenzweig, C.; Woo, J-H. (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      This paper provides a synthesis of results that have emerged from recent modeling studies of the potential sensitivity of U.S. regional ozone (O3) concentrations to global climate change (ca. 2050). This research has been ...

    • A Collaborative Approach to Study Northwest Flow Snow in The Southern Appalachians 

      Keighton, Steve; Lee, Laurence; Holloway, Blair; Hotz, David; Zubrick, Steven; Hovis, Jeffrey; Votaw, Gary; Perry, L. Baker; Lackmann, Gary; Yuter, Sandra E.; Konrad, Charles; Miller, Douglas; Etherton, Brian (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      Upslope-enhanced snowfall events during periods of northwesterly flow in the southern Appalachians have been recognized as a significant winter forecasting problem for some time. However, only in recent years has this ...

    • Gender Issues Among Academic AMS Members: Comparisons with the 1993 Membership Survey 

      Tucker, Donna; Ginther, Donna K.; Winkler, Julie A. (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      No Abstract available.

    • The Potential to Narrow Uncertainty in Regional Climate Predictions 

      Hawkins, Ed; Sutton, Rowan (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      Faced by the realities of a changing climate, decision makers in a wide variety of organizations are increasingly seeking quantitative predictions of regional and local climate. An important issue for these decision makers, ...

    • Mitigating New York City's Heat Island: Integrating Stakeholder Perspectives and Scientific Evaluation 

      Rosenzweig, Cynthia; Solecki, William D.; Cox, Jennifer; Hodges, Sara; Parshall, Lily; Lynn, Barry; Goldberg, Richard; Gaffin, Stuart; Slosberg, Ronald B.; Savio, Peter; Watson, Mark; Dunstan, Frank (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      This study of New York City, New York's, heat island and its potential mitigation was structured around research questions developed by project stakeholders working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers. Meteorological, ...

    • Short-Wavelength Technology and the Potential For Distributed Networks of Small Radar Systems 

      McLaughlin, David; Pepyne, David; Philips, Brenda; Kurose, James; Zink, Michael; Westbrook, David; Lyons, Eric; Knapp, Eric; Hopf, Anthony; Defonzo, Alfred; Contreras, Robert; Djaferis, Theodore; Insanic, Edin; Frasier, Stephen; Chandrasekar, V.; Junyent, Francesc; Bharadwaj, Nitin; Wang, Yanting; Liu, Yuxiang; Dolan, Brenda; Droegemeier, Kelvin; Brotzge, Jerald; Xue, Ming; Kloesel, Kevin; Brewster, Keith; Carr, Frederick; Cruz-Pol, Sandra; Hondl, Kurt; Kollias, Pavlos (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      Dense networks of short-range radars capable of mapping storms and detecting atmospheric hazards are described. Composed of small X-band (9.4 GHz) radars spaced tens of kilometers apart, these networks defeat the Earth ...

    • A Summary of the 16th Symposium on Education 

      Pandya, Rajul E.; Smith, David R.; Charlevoix, Donna J.; Hart, Wayne; Hayes, Marianne J.; Murillo, Shirley T.; Murphy, Kathleen A.; Stanitski, Diane M.; Whittaker, Thomas M. (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      No Abstract available.

    • Strategies: Revolution in Climate Prediction is Both Necessary and Possible: A Declaration at the World Modelling Summit for Climate Prediction 

      Shukla, J.; Hagedorn, R.; Miller, M.; Palmer, T. N.; Hoskins, B.; Kinter, J.; Marotzke, J.; Slingo, J. (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      No Abstract available.

    • When Do Losses Count? 

      Gall, Melanie; Borden, Kevin A.; Cutter, Susan L. (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      Current global and national databases that monitor losses from natural hazards suffer from a number of limitations, which in turn lead to misinterpretation and fallacies concerning the ?truthfulness? of hazard loss data. ...

    • Research Needs For Wind Resource Characterization 

      Shaw, William J.; Lundquist, Julie K.; Schreck, Scott J. (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      No abstract available.