Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • An Overview of MADONA: A Multinational Field Study of High-Resolution Meteorology and Diffusion over Complex Terrain 

      Cionco, R. M.; Byers, J. H.; Kampe, Waufm; van Raden, H.; Weber, H.; Biltoft, C.; Collins, C. G.; Higgs, T. J.; Jones, C. D.; Ride, D. J.; Robson, R.; Hin, A. R. T.; Johansson, P-E.; Nyrén, K.; Jørgensen, H. E.; Mikkelsen, T.; Santabarbara, J. M.; Thykier-Nielsen, S.; Kimber, J. F.; Streicher, J. (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      The multination, high-resolution field study of Meteorology And Diffusion Over Non-Uniform Areas (MADONA) was conducted by scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands ...

    • Maturity of Operational Numerical Weather Prediction: Medium Range 

      Kalnay, Eugenia; Lord, Stephen J.; McPherson, Ronald D. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      In 1939 Rossby demonstrated the usefulness of the linearized perturbation of the equations of motion for weather prediction and thus made possible the first successful numerical forecasts of the weather by Charney et al. ...

    • A Possible Connection between the 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic in the Southern United States and the 1877-78 El Niño Episode 

      Diaz, Henry F.; McCabe, Gregory J. (American Meteorological Society, 1999)
      One of the most severe outbreaks of yellow fever, a viral disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, affected the southern United States in the summer of 1878. The economic and human toll was enormous, and the city ...

    • 2000 Years of Drought Variability in the Central United States 

      Woodhouse, Connie A.; Overpeck, Jonathan T. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      Droughts are one of the most devastating natural hazards faced by the United States today. Severe droughts of the twentieth century have had large impacts on economies, society, and the environment, especially in the Great ...

    • Interdecadal Modulation of ENSO Teleconnections 

      Gershunov, Alexander; Barnett, Tim P. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      Seasonal climate anomalies over North America exhibit rather large variability between years characterized by the same ENSO phase. This lack of consistency reduces potential statistically based ENSO-related climate ...

    • Resonant Interaction between an Atmospheric Gravity Wave and Shallow Water Wave along Florida's West Coast 

      Paxton, Charles H.; Sobien, Daniel A. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      On 25 March 1995, a large solitary wave, seemingly from nowhere, washed ashore along the normally tranquil Gulf Coast of Florida from Tampa Bay to south of Naples. On this Saturday morning, many beachgoers and coastal ...

    • Use of Wind-Shear Displays for Doppler Radar Data 

      Chapman, D.; Browning, K. A. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      The usefulness of displaying vertical wind shear on a radar range height indicator is demonstrated. Fine structure in the pattern of shear is shown to be helpful for inferring general flow patterns and the occurrence of ...

    • High-Resolution Wind Fields within the Inner Core and Eye of a Mature Tropical Cyclone from GOES 1-min Images 

      Hasler, A. F.; Palaniappan, K.; Kambhammetu, C.; Black, P.; Uhlhorn, E.; Chesters, D. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      Mesoscale wind fields have been determined for a mature hurricane with high spatial and temporal resolution, continuity, and coherency. These wind fields, near the tropopause in the inner core and at low levels inside the ...

    • The IMADA-AVER Boundary Layer Experiment in the Mexico City Area 

      Doran, J. C.; Bian, X.; de Wekker, S. F. J.; Edgerton, S.; Fast, J. D.; Hubbe, J. M.; Shaw, W. J.; Whiteman, C. D.; Abbott, S.; King, C.; Leach, J.; Mulhearn, M.; Russell, C.; Templeman, B.; Wolfe, D.; Archuleta, J.; Elliott, S.; Fernandez, A.; Langley, D.; Lee, J. T.; Porch, W.; Tellier, L.; Chow, J.; Watson, J. G.; Coulter, R. L.; Martin, T. J.; Shannon, J. D.; White, R.; Martinez, D.; Martinez, J. L.; Mora, V.; Sosa, G.; Mercado, G.; Pena, J. L.; Salas, R.; Petty, R. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      A boundary layer field experiment in the Mexico City basin during the period 24 February?22 March 1997 is described. A total of six sites were instrumented. At four of the sites, 915-MHz radar wind profilers were deployed ...

    • An Assessment of GOES-8 Imager Data Quality 

      Ellrod, Gary P.; Achutuni, Rao V.; Daniels, Jaime M.; Prins, Elaine M.; Nelson, James P. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-8 (GOES-8), the first in the GOES I?M series of advanced meteorological satellites was launched in April 1994 and became operational at 75°W longitude the following ...

    • A Climatology of Derecho-Producing Mesoscale Convective Systemsin the Central and Eastern United States, 1986–95. Part I: Temporal and Spatial Distribution 

      Bentley, Mace L.; Mote, Thomas L. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      In 1888, Iowa weather researcher Gustavus Hinrichs gave widespread convectively induced windstorms the name ?derecho?. Refinements to this definition have evolved after numerous investigations of these systems; however, ...

    • Testing Climate Models: An Approach 

      Goody, Richard; Anderson, James; North, Gerald (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      The scientific merit of decadal climate projections can only be established by means of comparisons with observations. Testing of models that are used to predict climate change is of such importance that no single approach ...

    • The Mackenzie GEWEX Study: The Water and Energy Cycles of a Major North American River Basin 

      Stewart, R. E.; Crawford, R. W.; Leighton, H. G.; Marsh, P.; Strong, G. S.; Moore, G. W. K.; Ritchie, H.; Rouse, W. R.; Soulis, E. D.; Kochtubajda, B. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      The Mackenzie River is the largest North American source of freshwater for the Arctic Ocean. This basin is subjected to wide fluctuations in its climate and it is currently experiencing a pronounced warming trend. As a ...

    • Experimental Dendroclimatic Reconstruction of the Southern Oscillation 

      Stahle, D. W.; Cleaveland, M. K.; Therrell, M. D.; Gay, D. A.; D'Arrigo, R. D.; Krusic, P. J.; Cook, E. R.; Allan, R. J.; Cole, J. E.; Dunbar, R. B.; Moore, M. D.; Stokes, M. A.; Burns, B. T.; Villanueva-Diaz, J.; Thompson, L. G. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      Exactly dated tree-ring chronologies from ENSO-sensitive regions in subtropical North America and Indonesia together register the strongest ENSO signal yet detected in tree-ring data worldwide and have been used to reconstruct ...

    • Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN/WCRP): New Precision Radiometry for Climate Research 

      Ohmura, Atsumu; Gilgen, Hans; Hegner, Herman; Müller, Guido; Wild, Martin; Dutton, Ellsworth G.; Forgan, Bruce; Fröhlich, Claus; Philipona, Rolf; Heimo, Alain; König-Langlo, Gert; McArthur, Bruce; Pinker, Rachel; Whitlock, Charlie H.; Dehne, Klaus (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      To support climate research, the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) initiated a new radiometric network, the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN). The network aims at providing validation material for satellite ...

    • SBDART: A Research and Teaching Software Tool for Plane-Parallel Radiative Transfer in the Earth's Atmosphere 

      Ricchiazzi, Paul; Yang, Shiren; Gautier, Catherine; Sowle, David (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      SBDART is a software tool that computes plane-parallel radiative transfer in clear and cloudy conditions within the earth's atmosphere and at the surface. All important processes that affect the ultraviolet, visible, and ...

    • Nowcasting Thunderstorms: A Status Report 

      Wilson, James W.; Crook, N. Andrew; Mueller, Cynthia K.; Sun, Juanzhen; Dixon, Michael (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      This paper reviews the status of forecasting convective precipitation for time periods less than a few hours (nowcasting). Techniques for nowcasting thunderstorm location were developed in the 1960s and 1970s by extrapolating ...

    • Satellite–Based Insights into Precipitation Formation Processes in Continental and Maritime Convective Clouds 

      Rosenfeld, Daniel; Lensky, Itamar M. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      Multispectral analyses of satellite images are used to calculate the evolution of the effective radius of convective cloud particles with temperature, and to infer from that information about precipitation forming processes ...

    • Effect of El Niño on U.S. Landfalling Hurricanes, Revisited 

      Bove, Mark C.; O'Brien, James J.; Eisner, James B.; Landsea, Chris W.; Niu, Xufeng (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      Changes in the frequency of U.S. landfalling hurricanes with respect to the El Niño?Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle are assessed. Ninety-eight years (1900?97) of U.S. landfalling hurricanes are classified, using sea ...

    • Hydrologic Processes Associated with the First Transition of the Asian Summer Monsoon: A Pilot Satellite Study 

      Lau, K-M.; Wu, H-T.; Yang, S. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      Results of a pilot study of the evolution of large-scale hydrologic processes associated with the first transition of the Asian summer monsoon in conjunction with the launching of the South China Sea Monsoon Experiment ...