Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • The Operational GOES Infrared Rainfall Estimation Technique 

      Vicente, Gilberto A.; Scofield, Roderick A.; Menzel, W. Paul (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      This paper presents a description, sensitivity analyses, sample results, validation, and the recent progress done on the development of a new satellite rainfall estimation technique in the National Environmental Satellite ...

    • Annual and Daily Meteorological Cycles at High Altitude on a Tropical Mountain 

      Hardy, Douglas R.; Vuille, Mathias R.; Braun, Carsten R.; Keimig, Frank R.; Bradley, Raymond S. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      An automated weather station was installed in October 1996 at the summit of Nevado Sajama, located in the western Andean Cordillera of Bolivia (6542 m, 18°06?S, 68°53?W). Meteorological conditions on the mountain are being ...

    • A Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic (PIRATA) 

      Servain, Jacques; Busalacchi, Antonio J.; McPhaden, Michael J.; Moura, Antonio D.; Reverdin, Gilles; Vianna, Marcio; Zebiak, Stephen E. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      The tropical Atlantic Ocean is characterized by a large seasonal cycle around which there are climatically significant interannual and decadal timescale variations. The most pronounced of these interannual variations are ...

    • The Labrador Sea Deep Convection Experiment 

      Group, The Lab Sea (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      In the autumn of 1996 the field component of an experiment designed to observe water mass transformation began in the Labrador Sea. Intense observations of ocean convection were taken in the following two winters. The ...

    • Application of GOES-8/9 Soundings to Weather Forecasting and Nowcasting 

      Menzel, W. Paul; Holt, Frances C.; Schmit, Timothy J.; Aune, Robert M.; Schreiner, Anthony J.; Wade, Gary S.; Gray, Donald G. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      Since April 1994 a new generation of geostationary sounders has been measuring atmospheric radiances in 18 infrared spectral bands and thus providing the capability for investigating oceanographic and meteorological phenomena ...

    • Agricultural Management Decision Aids Driven by Real-Time Satellite Data 

      Diak, George R.; Anderson, Martha C.; Bland, William L.; Norman, John M.; Mecikalski, John M.; Aune, Robert M. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      In a NASA-sponsored program entitled "Use of Earth and Space Science Data Over the Internet," scientists at the University of Wisconsin?Madison have developed a suite of products for agriculture that are based in satellite ...

    • An Expanded Digital Daily Database for Climatic Resources Applications in the Midwestern United States 

      Kunkel, Kenneth E.; Andsager, Karen; Conner, Glen; Decker, Wayne L.; Hillaker, Harry J.; Knox, Pam Naber; Nurnberger, Fred V.; Rogers, Jeffrey C.; Scheeringa, Kenneth; Wendland, Wayne M.; Zandlo, James; Angel, James R. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      Daily observations of precipitation and maximum and minimum temperature from the National Weather Service's cooperative observer network collected prior to 1948 were keyed into a digital database. This database includes ...

    • Observations of Tropical Stratospheric Winds before World War II 

      Hamilton, Kevin (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      This paper discusses observations of the winds in the tropical stratosphere taken before the advent of regular operational balloon soundings in this region. These observations are at least broadly consistent with modern ...

    • Multisensor Retrieval of Atmospheric Properties 

      Stankov, B. Boba (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      A new method, Multisensor Retrieval of Atmospheric Properties (MRAP), is presented for deriving vertical profiles of atmospheric parameters throughout the troposphere. MRAP integrates measurements from multiple, diverse, ...

    • How Do We Understand the Coriolis Force? 

      Persson, Anders (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      The Coriolis force, named after French mathematician Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis (1792?1843), has traditionally been derived as a matter of coordinate transformation by an essentially kinematic technique. This has had the ...

    • Nonlinear Dynamics and Climate Change: Rossby's Legacy 

      Palmer, T. N. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      Carl-Gustaf Rossby's work leading to the dispersion equation for his eponymous atmospheric wave form was motivated by his quest to understand interrelationships between fluctuations in the zonal mean wind and the ...

    • Applying Neural Network Models to Prediction and Data Analysis in Meteorology and Oceanography 

      Hsieh, William W.; Tang, Benyang (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      Empirical or statistical methods have been introduced into meteorology and oceanography in four distinct stages: 1) linear regression (and correlation), 2) principal component analysis (PCA), 3) canonical correlation ...

    • Affordability of Meteorology Graduate Programs in the United States and Canada 

      Gilmore, Matthew S.; Toracinta, E. Richard (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      The authors surveyed 55 university departments in the United States and Canada that grant doctor of philosophy and/or master of science degrees in meteorology or the atmospheric sciences. Two-thirds of university departments ...

    • Tribute to Jerome Namias: The Pioneering Years 

      Rasmusson, Eugene M. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      No abstract available

    • The Lidars in Flat Terrain (LIFT) Experiment 

      Cohn, Stephen A.; Mayor, Shane D.; Grund, Christian J.; Weckwerth, Tammy M.; Senff, Christoph (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      The authors describe and present early results from the July_August 1996 Lidars in Flat Terrain (LIFT) experiment. LIFT was a boundary layer experiment that made use of recently developed Doppler, aerosol backscatter, and ...

    • Highlights of Coastal Waves 1996 

      Rogers, David P.; Dorman, Clive E.; Edwards, Kathleen A.; Brooks, Ian M.; Melville, W. Kendall; Burk, Stephen D.; Thompson, William T.; Holt, Teddy; Ström, Linda M.; Tjernström, Michael; Grisogono, Branko; Bane, John M.; Nuss, Wendell A.; Morley, Bruce M.; Schanot, Allen J. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      Some of the highlights of an experiment designed to study coastal atmospheric phenomena along the California coast (Coastal Waves 1996 experiment) are described. This study was designed to address several problems, including ...

    • Carl-Gustaf Rossby: His Times, Personality, and Actions 

      Phillips, Norman A. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      Editor's note: This is the first of a series of papers about Carl-Gustaf Rossby that will be published in the Bulletin. All papers were presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society as part ...

    • Are Gulf Landfalling Hurricanes Getting Stronger? 

      Bove, Mark C.; Zierden, David F.; O'Brien, James J. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      Recent predictions of increased hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin, as well as explosive coastal population growth, have prompted a study of the trends in quantity and intensity of U.S. landfalling hurricanes in the ...

    • Tribute to Jerome Namias: The Scripps Era 

      Cayan, Daniel R. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      No abstract available.

    • Structure and Evolution of an Undular Bore on the High Plains and Its Effects on Migrating Birds 

      Locatelli, John D.; Stoelinga, Mark T.; Hobbs, Peter V.; Johnson, Jim (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      On 18 September 1992 a series of thunderstorms in Nebraska and eastern Colorado, which formed south of a synoptic-scale cold front and north of a Rocky Mountain lee trough, produced a cold outflow gust front that moved ...