Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions
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Synoptic and Meso-α Scale Aspects of Flash Flood Events
(American Meteorological Society, 1979)Meteorological conditions associated with more than 150 intense convective precipitation events have been examined. These heavy rainfalls caused flash floods and affected most geographic regions of the conterminous United ... -
Unusual Foehn Winds Near the Smoky Mountains
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Opportunities and Priorities in a New Era for Weather and Climate Services
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The Workshop in Atmospheric Predictability
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)A workshop on the subject of atmospheric predictability was held during 23-25 April 2001 at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Of primary concern was the nature of forecast uncertainty due to initial ... -
Predicting Hurricane Landfall Precipitation: Optimistic and Pessimistic Views from the Symposium on Precipitation Extremes
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)The Symposium on Precipitation Extremes was one of two special symposia organized for the American Meteorological Society national meeting. This symposium was organized into sessions on winter precipitation, summer ... -
Radar Calibration: Some Simple Approaches
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)The proper calibration of weather radars has been at the heart of the problem of accurate reflectivity measurements for more than five decades. This paper summarizes a number of methods that have been used previously and ... -
Expert Assessment of Uncertainties in Detection and Attribution of Climate Change
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)The problem of detection of climate change and attribution of causes of change has been formalized as a series of discrete probability judgements in an expert elicitation protocol. Here results are presented from the ... -
Recent Changes in Frost Days and the Frost-Free Season in the United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)One of the signals expected with greenhouse warming is a change in what are now considered extreme temperatures. In this paper one type of extreme is examined for the 1948-99 period, that is, a change in the number of days ... -
The Weather Risk Management Industry's Climate Forecast and Data Needs: A Workshop Report
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Risk Prediction Initiative, and the Weather Risk Management Association jointly sponsored a workshop that examined a variety of issues related to climate ... -
The Quantification of Drought: An Evaluation of Drought Indices
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)Indices for objectively quantifying the severity of meteorological, agricultural, and hydrological forms of drought are discussed. Indices for each drought form are judged according to six weighted evaluation criteria: ... -
Third Northeast Regional Operational Workshop
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)The Third Northeast Regional Operational Workshop, focusing on hydrometeorology in the northeastern United States, was held 6-7 November 2001 in Albany, New York. Sessions covered cold season events, warm season events, ... -
The Depiction of Drought: A Commentary
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A Review of Twentieth-Century Drought Indices Used in the United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)The monitoring and analysis of drought have long suffered from the lack of an adequate definition of the phenomenon. As a result, drought indices have slowly evolved during the last two centuries from simplistic approaches ... -
The Drought Monitor
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)The Drought Monitor was started in spring 1999 in response to a need for improved information about the status of drought across the United States. It serves as an example of interagency cooperation in a time of limited ... -
Beginning a New Era of Drought Monitoring Across North America
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)No Abstract Available. -
Creating Climate Reference Datasets: CARDS Workshop on Adjusting Radiosonde Temperature Data for Climate Monitoring
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)Homogeneous upper-air temperature time series are necessary for climate change detection and attribution.About 20 participants met at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina on 11-12 October 2000 to ... -
Recent Changes in NWS Upper-Air Observations with Emphasis on Changes from VIZ to Vaisala Radiosondes
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)Recent changes in the NWS upperair observing network are listed and an analysis is presented of the change in 1995 from VIZ to Vaisala radiosonde instruments. Results are shown for 14 stations at 850, 700, 500, 100, and ... -
Rolls, Streets, Waves, and More: A Review of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Structures in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)The atmospheric boundary layer is home to a number of horizontally elongated quasi-two-dimensionalphenomena including cloud streets, roll vortices, thermal waves, and surface layer streaks. These phenomena, their dynamics, ... -
NCEP Dynamical Seasonal Forecast System 2000
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)The new National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) numerical seasonal forecast system is described in detail. The new system is aimed at a next-generation numerical seasonal prediction in which focus is placed ... -
An Introduction to Meteosat Second Generation (MSG)
(American Meteorological Society, 2002)This paper introduces the new generation of European geostationary meteorological satellites, Meteosat Second Generation (MSG), scheduled for launch in summer 2002. MSG is spin stabilized, as is the current Meteosat series, ...