Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Using Landsat to Identify Thunderstorm Damage in Agricultural Regions 

      Bentley, Mace L.; Mote, Thomas L.; Thebpanya, Paporn (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      During 12 and 18 August 1999, severe thunderstorms produced damaging winds and hail that caused an estimated $50 million in damage to agriculture in west-central Illinois. Landsat-7 imagery was obtained to determine the ...

    • Transition of Weather Research to Operations: Opportunities and Challenges 

      Serafin, Robert J.; Macdonald, Alexander E.; Gall, Robert L. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      The National Weather Service (NWS) of the United States has recently completed its modernization phase. This comprehensive modernization has put into place new observing systems, both ground-based and in space. Themodernization ...

    • The Kansas Green Thunderstorm of 4 October 1998 

      Wang, Pao K. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      No Abstract Available.

    • Reply 

      Weaver, Christopher P.; Avissar, Roni (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      No Abstract Available.

    • Controlling The Global Weather 

      Hoffman, Ross N. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      The earth's atmosphere may be chaotic and very likely is sensitive to small perturbations. Certainly, very simple nonlinear dynamical models of the atmosphere are chaotic, and the most realistic numerical weather prediction ...

    • Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean 

      Uttal, Taneil; Curry, Judith A.; Mcphee, Miles G.; Perovich, Donald K.; Moritz, Richard E.; Maslanik, James A.; Guest, Peter S.; Stern, Harry L.; Moore, James A.; Turenne, Rene; Heiberg, Andreas; Serreze, Mark C.; Wylie, Donald P.; Persson, Ola G.; Paulson, Clayton A.; Halle, Christopher; Morison, James H.; Wheeler, Patricia A.; Makshtas, Alexander; Welch, Harold; Shupe, Matthew D.; Intrieri, Janet M.; Stamnes, Knut; Lindsey, Ronald W.; Pinkel, Robert; Pegau, W. Scott; Stanton, Timothy P.; Grenfeld, Thomas C. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      A summary is presented of the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA) project, with a focus on the field experiment that was conducted from October 1997 to October 1998. The primary objective of the field work was ...

    • Comments on “Atmospheric Disturbance Caused by Human Modification of the Landscape” 

      Doran, J. C.; Zhong, S. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      No Abstract Available.

    • No Evidence for Iris 

      Hartmann, Dennis L.; Michelsen, Marc L. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      It is shown that the negative correlation between cloud-weighted sea surface temperature (SST) and high cloud fraction discussed recently by Lindzen et al. results from variations in subtropical clouds that are not physically ...

    • Using GEMPAK/GARP in Undergraduate Research 

      Clark, Richard D. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      No Abstract Available.

    • Radiative Destabilization in Clear-Sky CoolingCalculations 

      Hanson, Howard P. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      No Abstract Available

    • Weather Support for the 2002 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games 

      Horel, J.; Potter, T.; Dunn, L.; Steenburgh, W. J.; Eubank, M.; Splitt, M.; Onton, D. J. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      The 2002 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games will be hosted by Salt Lake City, Utah, during February-March 2002. Adverse weather during this period may delay sporting events, while snow and ice-covered streets and highways ...

    • Mesowest: Cooperative Mesonets in the Western United States 

      Horel, J.; Splitt, M.; Dunn, L.; Pechmann, J.; White, B.; Ciliberti, C.; Lazarus, S.; Slemmer, J.; Zaff, D.; Burks, J. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      Meteorological data from over 2800 automated environmental monitoring stations in the western United States are collected, processed, archived, integrated, and disseminated as part of the MesoWest program. MesoWest depends ...

    • The Real-Time Ultrafinescale Forecast Support during the Special Observing Period of the MAP 

      Benoit, R.; Schär, C.; Binder, P.; Chamberland, S.; Davies, H. C.; Desgagné, M.; Girard, C.; Keil, C.; Kouwen, N.; Lüthi, D.; Maric, D.; Müller, E.; Pellerin, P.; Schmidli, J.; Schubiger, F.; Schwierz, C.; Sprenger, M.; Walser, A.; Willemse, S.; Yu, W.; Zala, E. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      Recent developments in numerical modeling and computer technology will soon allow for limited-areaproduction-type numerical weather prediction at a resolution of 1-2 km. This advance opens exciting prospects for the ...

    • Understanding Utah Winter Storms: The Intermountain Precipitation Experiment 

      Schultz, David M.; Steenburgh, W. James; Trapp, R. Jeffrey; Horel, John; Kingsmill, David E.; Dunn, Lawrence B.; Rust, W. David; Cheng, Linda; Bansemer, Aaron; Cox, Justin; Daugherty, John; Jorgensen, David P.; Meitín, José; Showell, Les; Smull, Bradley F.; Tarp, Keli; Trainor, Marilu (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      Winter storms and their prediction are of increasing importance throughout the region of the United States with the fastest growing population, the Intermountain West. Such storms can produce heavy orographic snowfall, ...

    • Is the January Thaw a Statistical Phantom? 

      Godfrey, Christopher M.; Wilks, Daniel S.; Schultz, David M. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      The existence of the January thaw, a purported systematic anomalous warming in daily mean temperaturesat northeastern U.S. stations during late January, is investigated quantitatively. A key idea in theanalysis is that ...

    • 2002/2003 AMS/Industry Minority Scholarship Announcements 

      Unknown author (American Meteorological Society, 2001)
      No Abstract Available

    • Infrastructure for Ideas: Unidata as a Catalyst for Change in Geoscience Education and Research 

      Fulker, D. W.; Jacobs, C. A.; Rockwood, A. A.; Yarger, D. N. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      No Abstract Available

    • A foot of snow from a 3000-foot cloud: The Ocean-Effect Snowstorm of 14 January 1999 

      Waldstreicher, Jeff S. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      No Abstract Available

    • A Classification Scheme for Winter Storms in the Eastern and Central United States with an emphasis on Nor'easters 

      Zielinski, Gregory A. (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      A classification scheme for nor'easters and other winter storms (November-April) in the eastern and central United States provides real-time information on the potential impact of these storms. This scheme also may be ...

    • 2002/2003 AMS/Industry Undergraduate Scholarship Announcements 

      Unknown author (American Meteorological Society, 2001)
      No Abstract Available