Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Record Precipitation Totals from the Coastal New England Rainstorm of 20–21 October 1996 

      Keim, Barry D. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      This paper analyses the 20?21 October 1996 rainstorm along the coastal zone of New England in terms of its synoptic setting and its temporal and spatial patterns, and assesses its recurrence interval. The event was primarily ...

    • An Overview of NWS Weather Support for the XXVI Olympiad 

      Rothfusz, Lans P.; McLaughlin, Melvin R.; Rinard, Stephen K. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      The 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, received weather support from the National Weather Service (NWS). The mandate to provide this support gave the NWS an unprecedented opportunity to employ in an operational ...

    • Optical Properties of Aerosols and Clouds: The Software Package OPAC 

      Hess, M.; Koepke, P.; Schult, I. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      The software package OPAC (Optical Properties of Aerosols and Clouds) is described. It easily provides optical properties in the solar and terrestrial spectral range of atmospheric particulate matter. Microphysical and ...

    • Climate Assessment for 1997 

      Bell, Gerald D.; Halpert, Michael S. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      The global climate during 1997 was affected by both extremes of the El Niño?Southern Oscillation (ENSO), with weak Pacific cold episode conditions prevailing during January and February, and one of the strongest Pacific ...

    • Developing Advanced Weather Technologies for the Power Industry 

      Dempsey, Charles L.; Howard, Kenneth W.; Maddox, Robert A.; Phillips, Daniel H. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      The National Severe Storms Laboratory, the Salt River Project (SRP), and the Electric Power Research Institute have been involved in a multiyear tailored collaboration (TC) research project. The project was jointly supported ...

    • The WOCE Data Resource 

      Chapman, Piers (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      The World Ocean Circulation Experiment, the largest global oceanographic program ever mounted, has almost completed its field phase. Data are now being made available to researchers for synthesis activities. This article ...

    • The 1995 Arizona Program: Toward a Better Understanding of Winter Storm Precipitation Development in Mountainous Terrain 

      Klimowski, Brian A.; Becker, Robert; Betterton, Eric A.; Bruintjes, Roelof; Clark, Terry L.; Hall, William D.; Orr, Brad W.; Kropfli, Robert A.; Piironen, Paivi; Reinking, Roger F.; Sundie, Dennis; Uttal, Taneil (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      The 1995 Arizona Program was a field experiment aimed at advancing the understanding of winter storm development in a mountainous region of central Arizona. From 15 January through 15 March 1995, a wide variety of ...

    • Desertification, Drought, and Surface Vegetation: An Example from the West African Sahel 

      Nicholson, S. E.; Tucker, C. J.; Ba, M. B. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      Many assumptions have been made about the nature and character of desertification in West Africa. This paper examines the history of this issue, reviews the current state of our knowledge concerning the meteorological ...

    • The ScaRaB Earth Radiation Budget Dataset 

      Kandel, R.; Viollier, M.; Raberanto, P.; Duvel, J. Ph; Pakhomov, L. A.; Golovko, V. A.; Trishchenko, A. P.; Mueller, J.; Raschke, E.; Stuhlmann, R. R.; Scientific Working Group (ISSWG), International Sca Ra B. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      Following an overview of the scientific objectives and organization of the French?Russian?German Scanner for Radiation Budget (ScaRaB) project, brief descriptions of the instrument, its ground calibration, and in-flight ...

    • Priorities of the Academic Community for the National Weather Service 

      Dutton, John A.; Pietrafesa, Leonard J.; Snow, John T. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      No abstract available.

    • The Severe Flooding Event of January 1996 across North-Central Pennsylvania 

      Leathers, Daniel J.; Kluck, Douglas R.; Kroczynski, Scott (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      The rapid ablation of a snowpack and intense rainfall combined to cause catastrophic flooding across much of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States on 18 and 19 January 1996. This flooding event resulted in as many ...

    • Changing Waves and Storms in the Northeast Atlantic? 

      The WASA Group (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      The European project WASA (Waves and Storms in the North Atlantic) has been set up to verify or disprove hypotheses of a worsening storm and wave climate in the northeast Atlantic and its adjacent seas in the present ...

    • The Multi-center Airborne Coherent Atmospheric Wind Sensor 

      Rothermel, Jeffry; Cutten, Dean R.; Hardesty, R. Michael; Menzies, Robert T.; Howell, James N.; Johnson, Steven C.; Tratt, David M.; Olivier, Lisa D.; Banta, Robert M. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      In 1992 the atmospheric lidar remote sensing groups of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Marshall Space Flight Center, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Environmental Technology Laboratory ...

    • The USDA Ultraviolet Radiation Monitoring Program 

      Bigelow, D. S.; Slusser, J. R.; Beaubien, A. F.; Gibson, J. H. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Ultraviolet (UV) Radiation Monitoring Program has been measuring UV radiation since 1994. The initial network of 12 stations employed broadband meters to measure UVB irradiance and ...

    • An Atmospheric Radiation and Cloud Station in the Tropical Western Pacific 

      Mather, J. H.; Ackerman, T. P.; Clements, W. E.; Barnes, F. J.; Ivey, M. D.; Hatfield, L. D.; Reynolds, R. M. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      The interaction of clouds and radiation is a particularly difficult issue in the study of climate change. Clouds have a large impact on the earth's radiation budget but the range of spatial and temporal scales and the ...

    • A GPS/MET Sounding through an Intense Upper-Level Front 

      Kuo, Y-H.; Zou, X.; Chen, S. J.; Huang, W.; Guo, Y-R.; Anthes, R. A.; Exner, M.; Hunt, D.; Rocken, C.; Sokolovskiy, S. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      A Global Positioning System Meteorology (GPS/MET) proof-of-concept experiment became a reality on 3 April 1995. A small satellite carrying a modified GPS receiver was launched into earth orbit to demonstrate the feasibility ...

    • Biological and Physical Signs of Climate Change: Focus on Mosquito-borne Diseases 

      Epstein, Paul R.; Diaz, Henry F.; Elias, Scott; Grabherr, Georg; Graham, Nicholas E.; Martens, Willem J. M.; Mosley-Thompson, Ellen; Susskind, Joel (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that there is ?discernible evidence? that humans?through accelerating changes in multiple forcing factors?have begun to alter the earth's climate regime. Such conclusions ...

    • Operational Processing of Satellite Sea Surface Temperature Retrievals at the Naval Oceanographic Office 

      May, Douglas A.; Parmeter, Michelle M.; Olszewski, Daniel S.; McKenzie, Bruce D. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      A complete overview of the national Shared Processing Program (SPP) satellite sea surface temperature (SST) retrieval product is presented. This paper summarizes the operational processing of digital Advanced Very High ...

    • The Flatland Boundary Layer Experiments 

      Angevine, Wayne M.; Grimsdell, Alison W.; Hartten, Leslie M.; Delany, A. C. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      This article describes the 1995 and 1996 Flatland boundary layer experiments, known as Flatland95 and Flatland96. A number of scientific and instrumental objectives were organized around the central theme of characterization ...

    • The Montreal-96 Experiment on Regional Mixing and Ozone (MERMOZ): An Overview and Some Preliminary Results 

      Mailhot, J.; Strapp, J. W.; MacPherson, J. I.; Benoit, R.; Bélair, S.; Donaldson, N. R.; Froude, F.; Benjamin, M.; Zawadzki, I.; Rogers, R. R. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      The MERMOZ (Montreal-96 Experiment on Regional Mixing and Ozone) field experiment was conducted in the greater Montreal area in June 1996. The measurement program was designed to examine several aspects of boundary layer ...