Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Cirene: Air–Sea Interactions in the Seychelles–Chagos Thermocline Ridge Region 

      Vialard, J.; Duvel, J. P.; Mcphaden, M. J.; Bouruet-Aubertot, P.; Ward, B.; Key, E.; Bourras, D.; Weller, R.; Minnett, P.; Weill, A.; Cassou, C.; Eymard, L.; Fristedt, T.; Basdevant, C.; Dandonneau, Y.; Duteil, O.; Izumo, T.; de Boyer Montégut, C.; Masson, S.; Marsac, F.; Menkes, C.; Kennan, S. (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      The Vasco?Cirene program explores how strong air?sea interactions promoted by the shallow thermocline and high sea surface temperature in the Seychelles?Chagos thermocline ridge results in marked variability at synoptic, ...

    • Supplement to Cirene: Air—Sea Interactions in the Seychelles—Chagos Thermocline Ridge Region 

      Vialard, J.; Duvel, J. P.; Mcphaden, M. J.; Bouruet-Aubertot, P.; Ward, B.; Key, E.; Bourras, D.; Weller, R.; Minnett, P.; Weill, A.; Cassou, C.; Eymard, L.; Fristedt, T.; Basdevant, C.; Dandonneau, Y.; Duteil, O.; Izumo, T.; de Boyer Montégut, C.; Masson, S.; Marsac, F.; Menkes, C.; Kennan, S. (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      The Vasco?Cirene field experiment, in January?February 2007, targeted the Seychelles?Chagos thermocline ridge (SCTR) region, with the main purpose of investigating Madden?Julian Oscillation (MJO)-related SST events. The ...

    • The Aeroclipper: A New Device to Explore Convective Systems and Cyclones 

      Duvel, J. P.; Basdevant, C.; Bellenger, H.; Reverdin, G.; Vialard, J.; Vargas, A. (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      During the Validation of the Aeroclipper System under Convective Occurrences (VASCO) test experiment in January and February 2007, eight Aeroclipper prototypes were launched from Mahé Island in the tropical Indian Ocean. ...

    • Monitoring Changes in Climate Extremes: A Tale of International Collaboration 

      Peterson, Thomas C.; Manton, Michael J. (American Meteorological Society, 2008)
      No Abstract available.

    • New Mexico Scintillometer Network: Supporting Remote Sensing and Hydrologic and Meteorological Models 

      Kleissl, Jan; Hong, Sung-Ho; Hendrickx, Jan M. H. (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      In New Mexico, a first-of-its-kind network of seven large aperture scintillometer (LAS) sites was established in 2006 to measure sensible heat fluxes over irrigated fields, riparian areas, deserts, lava flows, and mountain ...

    • The Terrain-Induced Rotor Experiment 

      Grubišić, Vanda; Doyle, James D.; Kuettner, Joachim; Dirks, Richard; Cohn, Stephen A.; Pan, Laura L.; Mobbs, Stephen; Smith, Ronald B.; Whiteman, C. David; Czyzyk, Stanley; Vosper, Simon; Weissmann, Martin; Haimov, Samuel; De Wekker, Stephan F. J.; Chow, Fotini Katopodes (American Meteorological Society, 2008)
      The Terrain-Induced Rotor Experiment (T-REX) is a coordinated international project, composed of an observational field campaign and a research program, focused on the investigation of atmospheric rotors and closely related ...

    • A Database of Microwave Single-Scattering Properties for Nonspherical Ice Particles 

      Liu, Guosheng (American Meteorological Society, 2008)
      As satellite observations at high microwave frequencies have recently become available, there is an increasing demand for methods that accurately evaluate the single-scattering properties of nonspherical ice particles at ...

    • Reflections on a Large-Lecture, Introductory Meteorology Course: Goals, Assessment, and Opportunities for Improvement 

      Kahl, Jonathan D. W. (American Meteorological Society, 2008)
      The Atmospheric Science program at the University of Wisconsin?Milwaukee regularly offers the general education course Survey of Meteorology, serving over 400 students each year. This article describes a systematic inquiry ...

    • The Pirata Program: History, Accomplishments, and Future Directions 

      Bourlès, Bernard; Lumpkin, Rick; McPhaden, Michael J.; Hernandez, Fabrice; Nobre, Paulo; Campos, Edmo; Yu, Lisan; Planton, Serge; Busalacchi, Antonio; Moura, Antonio D.; Servain, Jacques; Trotte, Janice (American Meteorological Society, 2008)
      The Pilot Research Moored Array in the tropical Atlantic (PIRATA) was developed as a multinational observation network to improve our knowledge and understanding of ocean?atmosphere variability in the tropical Atlantic. ...

    • The Earth System Grid: Enabling Access to Multimodel Climate Simulation Data 

      Williams, D. N.; Drach, R.; Ananthakrishnan, R.; Foster, I. T.; Fraser, D.; Siebenlist, F.; Bernholdt, D. E.; Chen, M.; Schwidder, J.; Bharathi, S.; Chervenak, A. L.; Schuler, R.; Su, M.; Brown, D.; Cinquini, L.; Fox, P.; Garcia, J.; Middleton, D. E.; Strand, W. G.; Wilhelmi, N.; Hankin, S.; Schweitzer, R.; Jones, P.; Shoshani, A.; Sim, A. (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      By leveraging current technologies to manage distributed climate data in a unified virtual environment, the Earth System Grid (ESG) project is promoting data sharing between international research centers and diverse users. ...

    • Tilting the Odds in Maize Yields: How Climate Information Can Help Manage risks 

      Baethgen, W. E.; Ropelewski*, C.; Carriquiry, M. (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      It goes without saying that most crops are sensitive to variations in weather and climate. When the influence of the El Niño?Southern Oscillation on rainfall for several regions of the world was first discovered climate ...

    • The Amma Radiosonde Program and its Implications for the Future of Atmospheric Monitoring Over Africa 

      Parker, Douglas J.; Fink, Andreas; Janicot, Serge; Ngamini, Jean-Blaise; Douglas, Michael; Afiesimama, Ernest; Agusti-Panareda, Anna; Beljaars, Anton; Dide, Francis; Diedhiou, Arona; Lebel, Thierry; Polcher, Jan; Redelsperger, Jean-Luc; Thorncroft, Chris; Ato Wilson, George (American Meteorological Society, 2008)
      This article describes the upper-air program, which has been conducted as part of the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA). Since 2004, AMMA scientists have been working in partnership with operational agencies ...

    • Untapped Career Opportunities for Persons With Visual Impairments 

      Durre, Imke (American Meteorological Society, 2008)
      In atmospheric science, information is often communicated in visual form. Maps, radar images, and satellite imagery are widely used to display daily weather forecasts and current conditions. Textbooks, professional journals, ...

    • INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: The Ucar Africa Initiative 

      Lamptey, Benjamin L.; Pandya, Rajul E.; Warner, Thomas T.; Boger, Rebecca; Bruintjes, Roelof T.; Kucera, Paul A.; Laing, Arlene; Moncrieff, Mitchell W.; Ramamurthy, Mohan K.; Spangler, Timothy C.; Weingroff, Marianne (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      No Abstract available.

    • Supercells and Sprites 

      Lyons, Walter A.; Stanley, Mark A.; Nelson, Thomas E.; Cummer, Steven A.; Huffines, Gary R.; Wiens, Kyle C. (American Meteorological Society, 2008)
      Over a decade of monitoring mesospheric transient luminous events (TLEs) above U.S. high plains storms confirmed sprites are almost exclusively associated with positive polarity cloud-to-ground lightning (+CGs). Following ...

    • Education: A New Laboratory Exercise to Study Microscale Spatial Temperature Changes on a University Campus 

      Newman, Steven B. (American Meteorological Society, 2008)
      No Abstract available.

    • Joint NOAA/NWS/USGS Prototype Debris Flow Warning System for Recently Burned Areas in Southern California 

      Restrepo, Pedro; Jorgensen, David P.; Cannon, Susan H.; Costa, John; Major, Jon; Laber, Jayme; Martner, Brooks; Purpura, Jim; Werner, Kevin (American Meteorological Society, 2008)
      No Abstract available.

    • REFRACTT 2006 

      Roberts, Rita D.; Nelson, Eric; Wilson, James W.; Rehak, Nancy; Sun, Juanzhen; Ellis, Scott; Weckwerth, Tammy; Fabry, Frédéric; Kennedy, Patrick C.; Fritz, Jason; Chandrasekar, V.; Reising, Steven; Padmanabhan, Sharmila; Braun, John; Crum, Timothy; Mooney, Larry; Palmer, Robert (American Meteorological Society, 2008)
      The Refractivity Experiment for H2O Research and Collaborative Operational Technology Transfer (REFRACTT), conducted in northeast Colorado during the summer of 2006, provided a unique opportunity to obtain high-resolution ...

    • Methods and Resources for Climate Impacts Research 

      Challinor, Andrew Juan; Osborne, Tom; Shaffrey, Len; Weller, Hilary; Morse, Andy; Wheeler, Tim; Vidale, Pier Luigi (American Meteorological Society, 2009)
      The prediction of climate variability and change requires the use of a range of simulation models. Multiple climate model simulations are needed to sample the inherent uncertainties in seasonal to centennial prediction. ...

    • Recent and Future Trends in U.S. Undergraduate Meteorology Enrollments, Degree Recipients, and Employment Opportunities 

      Knox, John A. (American Meteorological Society, 2008)
      Using data derived from the American Meteorological Society?University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Curricula and U.S. Department of Education statistics, it is found that the number of meteorology bachelor's degree ...