Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • When Was The Hottest Summer? A State Climatologist Struggles for an Answer 

      Christy, John R. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      To answer this very common though surprisingly difficult question, a technique was developed to reconstruct a local temperature time series of summer average maximum temperatures in northcentral Alabama since 1893. The ...

    • Dipoles, Temperature Gradients, and Tropical Climate Anomalies 

      Hastenrath, Stefan (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      The term ?dipole? implies a seesaw, inverse variations of an element at the extremities of an oscillationsystem. The Southern Oscillation and North Atlantic Oscillation are examples of such mainly standing oscillations ...

    • Comments on “A Critical Assessment of the Seeding of Convective Clouds for Rainfall Enhancement” 

      Woodley, William L.; Rosenfeld, Daniel (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      No Abstract Available.

    • Reply 

      Silverman, Bernard A. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      No Abstract Available.

    • Early Detection of Tropical Cyclones Using Seawinds-Derived Vorticity 

      Sharp, Ryan J.; Bourassa, Mark A.; O'Brien, James J. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      A method for early detection of the systems that become tropical cyclones (TCs) in the Atlantic hurricanebasin is developed using the SeaWinds scatterometer aboard the QuikSCAT satellite. The method is based on finding ...

    • Warm Occlusions, Cold Occlusions, and Forward-Tilting Cold Fronts 

      Stoelinga, Mark T.; Locatelli, John D.; Hobbs, Peter V. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      The classical definitions of warm and cold occlusions are updated in light of recent observations and numerical modeling of occluded fronts within midlatitude cyclones. Mesoscale model simulations of occluded fronts show ...

    • Confidence Builders: Evaluating Seasonal Climate Forecasts from User Perspectives 

      Hartmann, Holly C.; Pagano, Thomas C.; Sorooshian, S.; Bales, R. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      Water managers, cattle ranchers, and wildland fire managers face several barriers to effectively using climate forecasts. Repeatedly, these decision makers state that they lack any quantitative basis for evaluating forecast ...

    • A Climatological Study of Thermally Driven Wind Systems of the U.S. Intermountain West 

      Stewart, Jebb Q.; Whiteman, C. David; Steenburgh, W. James; Bian, Xindi (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      This paper investigates the diurnal evolution of thermally driven plain-mountain winds, up- and down-valley winds, up- and downslope winds, and land-lake breezes for summer fair weather conditions in four regions of the ...

    • CASES-99: A Comprehensive Investigation of the Stable Nocturnal Boundary Layer 

      Poulos, Gregory S.; Blumen, William; Fritts, David C.; Lundquist, Julie K.; Sun, Jielun; Burns, Sean P.; Nappo, Carmen; Banta, Robert; Newsom, Rob; Cuxart, Joan; Terradellas, Enric; Balsley, Ben; Jensen, Michael (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      The Cooperative Atmosphere-Surface Exchange Study?1999 (CASES-99) refers to a field experiment carried out in southeast Kansas during October 1999 and the subsequent program of investigation. Comprehensive data, primarily ...

    • Investigating the West African Climate System Using Global/Regional Climate Models 

      Jenkins, Gregory S.; Kamga, Andre; Garba, Adamou; Diedhiou, Arona; Morris, Vernon; Joseph, Everette (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      A three-day workshop took place at Howard University in Washington D.C. 27 July through 29 July 2000 to examine scientific and social issues associated with climate research in West Africa. Atmospheric scientists from West ...

    • Comments on “Does the Earth Have an Adaptive Infrared Iris?” 

      Harrison, Halstead (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      No Abstract Available.

    • Reply 

      Bell, Thomas L.; Chou, Ming-Dah; Hou, Arthur Y.; Lindzen, Richard S. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      No Abstract Available.

    • Supplement to Comments on “Does the Earth Have an Adaptive Infrared Iris?” 

      Harrison, Halstead (American Meteorological Society, 2002)

    • Why Liberal Arts Colleges Need Meteorology and Oceanography 

      Kidder, Stanley Q.; Pietrafesa, Leonard J.; Croft, Paul J. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      No Abstract Available.

    • Overview of URBAN 2000: A Multiscale Field Study of Dispersion through an Urban Environment 

      Allwine, K. J.; Shinn, J. H.; Streit, G. E.; Clawson, K. L.; Brown, M. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      A major urban tracer and meteorological field campaign (URBAN 2000) was conducted in Salt Lake City, Utah, during October 2000. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Chemical and Biological National Security ...

    • THE VTMX 2000 CAMPAIGN 

      Doran, J. C.; Fast, J. D.; Horel, J. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      A month-long meteorological field campaign sponsored by the Department of Energy's Environmental Meteorology Program was conducted during October 2000 in the Salt Lake Valley to study vertical transport and mixing (VTMX) ...

    • Letter from Headquarters: Making The Journals Work For You 

      Seitter, Keith L. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      No Abstract Available.

    • Does Increasing Horizontal Resolution Produce More Skillful Forecasts? 

      Mass, Clifford F.; Ovens, David; Westrick, Ken; Colle, Brian A. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      This paper examines the impacts of increasing horizontal resolution on the performance of mesoscale numerical weather prediction models. A review of previous studies suggests that decreasing grid spacing to approximately ...

    • How Can We Advance Our Weather and Climate Models as a Community? 

      Dickinson, Robert E.; Zebiak, Stephen E.; Anderson, Jeffrey L.; Blackmon, Maurice L.; De Luca, Cecelia; Hogan, Timothy F.; Iredell, Mark; Ji, Ming; Rood, Ricky B.; Suarez, Max J.; Taylor, Karl E. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      A common modeling infrastructure ad hoc working group evolved from an NSF/NCEP workshop in 1998, in recognition of the need for the climate and weather modeling communities to develop a more organized approach to building ...

    • Weather Impacts, Forecasts, and Policy: An Integrated Perspective 

      Pielke, Roger; Carbone, R. E. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      Society invests considerable resources into the science and technology of weather services. In order to effectively assess the market for weather services, and thus properly scale the level of resources that, for example, ...