Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • An International Haze-Monitoring Network for Students 

      Mims, Forrest M. (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program is an international network of schools in 71 countries that monitors up to 20 environmental parameters. Recently GLOBE added a haze-monitoring ...

    • Lessons Learned From Operating Global Ocean Observing Networks 

      Molinari, Robert L. (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      The Global Ocean Observing System Center (GOOSC) at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory operates two global observing networks, a drifting buoy ...

    • Impacts of 1997—98 El Niño Generated Weather in the United States 

      Changnon, Stanley A. (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      This paper assesses the major impacts on human lives and the economy of the United States resulting from weather events attributed to El Niño 1997-98. Southern states and California were plagued by storms, whereas the ...

    • NCEP Forecasts of the El Niño of 1997—98 and Its U.S. Impacts 

      Barnston, Anthony G.; Leetmaa, Ants; Kousky, Vernon E.; Livezey, Robert E.; O'Lenic, Edward; Van den Dool, Huug; Wagner, A. James; Unger, David A. (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      The strong El Niño of 1997-98 provided a unique opportunity for National Weather Service, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Climate Prediction Center (CPC) forecasters to apply several years of accumulated new ...

    • The North Pacific Experiment (NORPEX-98): Targeted Observations for Improved North American Weather Forecasts 

      Langland, R. H.; Toth, Z.; Gelaro, R.; Szunyogh, I.; Shapiro, M. A.; Majumdar, S. J.; Morss, R. E.; Rohaly, G. D.; Velden, C.; Bond, N.; Bishop, C. H. (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      The objectives and preliminary results of an interagency field program, the North Pacific Experiment (NORPEX), which took place between 14 January and 27 February 1998, are described. NORPEX represents an effort to directly ...

    • Interactions with a Weather-Sensitive Decision Maker: A Case Study Incorporating ENSO Information into a Strategy for Purchasing Natural Gas 

      Changnon, David; Creech, Tamara; Marsili, Nathan; Murrell, William; Saxinger, Michael (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      During the 1997/98 El Niño event, a Northern Illinois University (NIU) faculty member and a group of undergraduate meteorology students interacted with the university's heating plant manager to determine whether climate ...

    • A Record Ohio Snowfall during 9–14 November 1996 

      Schmidlin, Thomas W.; Kosarik, James (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      A 6-day lake effect snow event produced a reported 68.9 in. (175.0 cm) of snowfall in Hambden Township, Geauga County, Ohio, during 9?14 November 1996. This exceeded the previous Ohio single-storm snowfall record of 42 in. ...

    • Effects of Imperfect Storm Reporting on the Verification of Weather Warnings 

      Smith, Paul L. (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      This paper presents an analysis of the effects of shortcomings in the reporting of severe storm events on some common measures of warning performance. Such deficiencies lead to an apparent false alarm ratio (FAR) higher ...

    • Estimation of Sea Surface Temperatures Using GOES-8/9Radiance Measurements 

      Wu, Xiangqian; Menzel, W. Paul; Wade, Gary S. (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) are derived using measurements from the new generation of imaging instruments on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES). The National Environmental Satellite, Data and ...

    • The Golden Anniversary Celebration of the First Tornado Forecast 

      Grice, G. K.; Trapp, R. J.; Corfidi, S. F.; Davies-Jones, R.; Buonanno, C. C.; Craven, J. P.; Droegemeier, K. K.; Duchon, C.; Houghton, J. V.; Prentice, R. A.; Romine, G.; Schlachter, K.; Wagner, K. K. (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
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    • Present-Day Capabilities of Numerical and Statistical Models for Atmospheric Extratropical Seasonal Simulation and Prediction 

      Anderson, Jeffrey; van den Dool, Huug; Barnston, Anthony; Chen, Wilbur; Stern, William; Ploshay, Jeffrey (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      A statistical model and extended ensemble integrations of two atmospheric general circulation models (GCMs) are used to simulate the extratropical atmospheric response to forcing by observed SSTs for the years 1980 through ...

    • Climate Assessment for 1998 

      Bell, Gerald D.; Halpert, Michael S.; Kousky, Vernon E.; Gelman, Melvyn E.; Ropelewski, Chester F.; Douglas, Arthur V.; Schnell, Russell C. (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      The global climate during 1998 was affected by opposite extremes of the ENSO cycle, with one of the strongest Pacific warm episodes (El Niño) in the historical record continuing during January?early May and Pacific cold ...

    • Validation of the Saharan Dust Plume Conceptual Model Using Lidar, Meteosat, and ECMWF Data 

      Karyampudi, V. Mohan; Palm, Stephen P.; Reagen, John A.; Fang, Hui; Grant, William B.; Hoff, Raymond M.; Moulin, Cyril; Pierce, Harold F.; Torres, Omar; Browell, Edward V.; Melfi, S. Harvey (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      Lidar observations collected during the Lidar In-space Technology Experiment experiment in conjunction with the Meteosat and European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts data have been used not only to validate the ...

    • Temporal Fluctuations in Weather and Climate Extremes That Cause Economic and Human Health Impacts: A Review 

      Kunkel, Kenneth E.; Pielke, Roger A.; Changnon, Stanley A. (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      This paper reviews recent work on trends during this century in societal impacts (direct economic losses and fatalities) in the United States from extreme weather conditions and compares those with trends of associated ...

    • Trends in Atmospheric Science Journals: A Reader's Perspective 

      Geerts, Bart (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      A survey of 22 atmospheric science journals shows that the number of published articles tripled in 30 years during 1965?95, so that it has become increasingly difficult to keep abreast of the literature. A total of 1642 ...

    • A Single-Radar Technique for Estimating the Winds in Tropical Cyclones 

      Tuttle, John; Gall, Robert (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      A method for determining horizontal wind speeds in hurricanes using ground-based radars is presented and evaluated. The method makes use of the tracking reflectivity echos by correlation (TREC) method where individual ...

    • Rapidly Expanding Uses of Climate Data and Information in Agriculture and Water Resources: Causes and Characteristics of New Applications 

      Changnon, Stanley A.; Kunkel, Kenneth E. (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      During the last 20 years the use of climate data and information in agriculture and water resources has increased dramatically. This has resulted from vastly improved access to comprehensive datasets and climate information ...

    • A Review of Cloud Seeding Experiments to Enhance Precipitation and Some New Prospects 

      Bruintjes, Roelof T. (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      Water is one of the most basic commodities on earth sustaining human life. In many regions of the world, traditional sources and supplies of ground water, rivers and reservoirs, are either inadequate or under threat from ...

    • The Pilot Phase of the Global Soil Wetness Project 

      Dirmeyer, Paul A.; Dolman, A. J.; Sato, Nobuo (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      The Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP) is an ongoing land surface modeling activity of the International Satellite Land-Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP), a part of the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment. The pilot ...

    • The Global Energy Balance Archive 

      Gilgen, H.; Ohmura, A. (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      The energy fluxes at the earth's surface determine, to a great extent, the thermal conditions and the circulation of the atmosphere. Accurate energy flux measurements, therefore, are essential for understanding (i) the ...