Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Hurricane Huron 

      Miner, Todd; Sousounis, Peter J.; Wallman, James; Mann, Greg (American Meteorological Society, 2000)
      An intense cutoff low developed over the Great Lakes during the period 11?15 September 1996. As the low deepened, height falls in the lower troposphere exceeded those at upper levels, the cold?core low evolved into a warm ...

    • Climatic Perspective and Impacts of the 1998 Northern New York and New England Ice Storm 

      DeGaetano, Arthur T. (American Meteorological Society, 2000)
      From 4 through 10 January 1998 a severe ice storm impacted northern New York and New England. Liquid?equivalent precipitation totals, which fell exclusively as freezing rain, reached as high as 11 cm at some observing sites ...

    • Analysis of a Conceptual Model of Seasonal Climate Variability and Implications for Seasonal Prediction 

      Kumar, Arun; Hoerling, Martin P. (American Meteorological Society, 2000)
      A thought experiment on atmospheric interannual variability associated with El Niño is formulated and is used to investigate the seasonal predictability as it relates to the practice of generating ensemble GCM predictions. ...

    • Philosophy of Climate Science 

      Petersen, Arthur C. (American Meteorological Society, 2000)
      The use of climate simulations in scientific assessments of climate change and in the formulation of climatechange scenarios has been contested for, among others, methodological reasons. The "philosophy of climate ...

    • The Warmest Day of Any Week Tends to Occur on the First or Last Day of That Week 

      Coakley, Kevin J. (American Meteorological Society, 2000)
      The author analyzed daily maximum temperature data collected at the San Francisco International Airport from 1949 to 1994. For each week, he computed the day of the week on which the weekly maximum temperature falls. He ...

    • Sixth International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography 

      Unknown author (American Meteorological Society, 2000)
      No Abstract Available

    • from headquarters 

      Unknown author (American Meteorological Society, 2000)
      No Abstract Available

    • Calendars and Software 

      Ahlquist, Jon E. (American Meteorological Society, 2000)
      Meteorologists need to be able to manipulate arbitrary dates in the past, present, and future. Here calendar rules for both the Julian (old) and Gregorian (modern) calendars are reviewed. The author describes free software ...

    • Report on the First International Symposium on Operational Weather Forecasting in Antarctica 

      Turner, John; Pendlebury, Stephen; Cowled, Lance; Jones, Marjorie; Targett, Philip; Jacka, Kieran (American Meteorological Society, 2000)
      The First International Symposium on Operational Weather Forecasting in Antarctica was held in Hobart, Australia, from 31 August to 3 September 1998. There were 40 attendees at the meeting from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, ...

    • commentary and analysis 

      Unknown author (American Meteorological Society, 2000)
      No Abstract Available

    • An Assessment of the NCEP, NASA, and ECMWF Reanalyses over the Tropical West Pacific Warm Pool 

      Newman, Matthew; Sardeshmukh, Prashant D.; Bergman, John W. (American Meteorological Society, 2000)
      Three very different views of the mean structure and variability of deep convection over the tropical east Indian and west Pacific Oceans, provided by three different reanalysis datasets for 1980?93, are highlighted. The ...

    • A Serially Complete Simulated Observation Time Metadata File for U.S. Daily Historical Climatology Network Stations 

      DeGaetano, Arthur T. (American Meteorological Society, 2000)
      A procedure to infer time of observation based on day?to?day temperature variations is refined and applied to the 1060?station daily Historical Climatology Network (HCN), creating a set of ersatz observation time metadata. ...

    • A Forecasting Activity for a Large Introductory Meteorology Course 

      Yarger, Douglas N.; Gallus, William A.; Taber, Michael; Boysen, J. Peter; Castleberry, Paul (American Meteorological Society, 2000)
      A large lecture introductory course at Iowa State University has used a forecasting activity since 1993 to actively engage students in doing science. This automatically scored Web?based activity requires students to evaluate ...

    • Global Sea Surface Temperature Analyses: Multiple Problemsand Their Implications for Climate Analysis, Modeling, and Reanalysis 

      Hurrell, James W.; Trenberth, Kevin E. (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      A comprehensive comparison is made among four sea surface temperature (SST) datasets: the optimum interpolation (OI) and the empirical orthogonal function reconstructed SST analyses from the National Centers for Environmental ...

    • Characteristics of the TOVS Pathfinder Path-B Dataset 

      Scott, Noëlle A.; Chédin, Alain; Armante, Raymond; Francis, Jennifer; Stubenrauch, Claudia; Chaboureau, Jean-Pierre; Chevallier, Frederic; Claud, Chantal; Cheruy, Frédérique (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      From 1979 to present, sensors aboard the NOAA series of polar meteorological satellites have provided continuous measurements of the earth's surface and atmosphere. One of these sensors, the TIROS-N Operational Vertical ...

    • The Digitized Kobe Collection, Phase I: Historical Surface Marine Meteorological Observationsin the Archive of the Japan Meteorological Agency 

      Manabe, Teruko (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      Japanese historical marine meteorological observations have been archived at the Kobe Marine Observatory of the Japan Meteorological Agency. Considering the importance of making historical data available, digitization ...

    • FIRE Arctic Clouds Experiment 

      Curry, J. A.; Hobbs, P. V.; King, M. D.; Randall, D. A.; Minnis, P.; Isaac, G. A.; Pinto, J. O.; Uttal, T.; Bucholtz, A.; Cripe, D. G.; Gerber, H.; Fairall, C. W.; Garrett, T. J.; Hudson, J.; Intrieri, J. M.; Jakob, C.; Jensen, T.; Lawson, P.; Marcotte, D.; Nguyen, L.; Pilewskie, P.; Rangno, A.; Rogers, D. C.; Strawbridge, K. B.; Valero, F. P. J.; Williams, A. G.; Wylie, D. (American Meteorological Society, 2000)
      An overview is given of the First ISCCP Regional Experiment Arctic Clouds Experiment that was conductedduring April?July 1998. The principal goal of the field experiment was to gather the data needed to examine the impactof ...

    • Meeting Report on the Eighth AMS Symposium on Education 

      Smith, D. R.; Phoebus, P. A.; Zeitler, J. W.; Changnon, D.; McPherson, R. A.; Murphy, K. A.; Croft, P. J.; Hayes, M. C.; Marlino, M. R. (American Meteorological Society, 2000)
      The American Meteorological Society held its Eighth Symposium on Education in conjunction with the 79th Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas. The theme of this year's symposium was "Enhancing Public Awareness of Weather and ...

    • Atlantic and East Coast Hurricanes 1900–98: A Frequency andIntensity Study for the Twenty-First Century 

      Smith, Eddie (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      The Atlantic Ocean has spawned three hurricanes in three years that have made direct hits on the U.S. east coast. The unusual activity has sparked a question of whether East Coast landfalling hurricanes are increasing in ...

    • Diurnal and Seasonal Variations of the Rainfall Measured by the Automatic Rainfall and Meteorological Telemetry System in Taiwan 

      Chen, Tsing-Chang; Yen, Ming-Cheng; Hsieh, Jung-Chieh; Arritt, Raymond W. (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      Under a weather hazard prevention program in Taiwan, the Vaisala Meteorological Instrument, Inc., of Finland and the Environmental Science and Engineering Corporation of Taiwan jointly developed and installed more than 300 ...