Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Landfalling Tropical Cyclones: Forecast Problems and Associated Research Opportunities 

      Marks, Frank D.; Shay, Lynn K. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      The Fifth Prospectus Development Team of the U.S. Weather Research Program was charged to identify and delineate emerging research opportunities relevant to the prediction of local weather, flooding, and coastal ocean ...

    • An Unattended Cloud-Profiling Radar for Use in Climate Research 

      Moran, Kenneth P.; Martner, Brooks E.; Post, M. J.; Kropfli, Robert A.; Welsh, David C.; Widener, Kevin B. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      A new millimeter-wave cloud radar (MMCR) has been designed to provide detailed, long-term observations of nonprecipitating and weakly precipitating clouds at Cloud and Radiation Testbed (CART) sites of the Department of ...

    • Probabilistic Hydrometeorological Forecasts: Toward a New Era in Operational Forecasting 

      Krzysztofowicz, Roman (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      Under the auspices of the Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training, pilot research has been conducted from 1991 to 1996 on operational methods for producing Probabilistic Quantitative ...

    • Regional Real-Time Numerical Weather Prediction: Current Status and Future Potential 

      Mass, Clifford F.; Kuo, Ying-Hwa (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      During the past several years, regional numerical prediction efforts have proliferated as local computer power increased, mesoscale modeling systems became easier to use and more readily available, and model analyses and ...

    • A Mesoscale Model Intercomparison 

      Cox, Robert; Bauer, Bruce L.; Smith, Thomas (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      An intercomparison of four mesoscale numerical prediction models that could lead to the selection of a model for use in the theater of operations by United States Air Force (USAF) meteorological personnel is described. ...

    • Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting: Report of the Eighth Prospectus Development Team, U.S. Weather Research Program 

      Fritsch, J. M.; Houze, R. A.; Adler, R.; Bluestein, H.; Bosart, L.; Brown, J.; Carr, F.; Davis, C.; Johnson, R. H.; Junker, N.; Kuo, Y-H.; Rutledge, S.; Smith, J.; Toth, Z.; Wilson, J. W.; Zipser, E.; Zrnic, D. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      No abstract available.

    • Secular Trends of Precipitation Amount, Frequency, and Intensity in the United States 

      Karl, Thomas R.; Knight, Richard W. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      Twentieth century trends of precipitation are examined by a variety of methods to more fully describe how precipitation has changed or varied. Since 1910, precipitation has increased by about 10% across the contiguous ...

    • Interdecadal Variations of Annual Precipitation in the Central United States 

      Hu, Qi; Woodruff, C. M.; Mudrick, Stephen E. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      Century-long annual precipitation time series at 168 stations in the central United States are analyzed with special attention given to interdecadal variations. The results show statistically significant precipitation ...

    • Tropical Cyclones and Global Climate Change: A Post-IPCC Assessment 

      Henderson-Sellers, A.; Zhang, H.; Berz, G.; Emanuel, K.; Gray, W.; Landsea, C.; Holland, G.; Lighthill, J.; Shieh, S-L.; Webster, P.; McGuffie, K. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      The very limited instrumental record makes extensive analyses of the natural variability of global tropical cyclone activities difficult in most of the tropical cyclone basins. However, in the two regions where reasonably ...

    • The Oleander Project: Monitoring the Variability of the Gulf Stream and Adjacent Waters between New Jersey and Bermuda 

      Rossby, T.; Gottlieb, E. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      An overview of the first 4.5 years of operation of a program to monitor the structure and variability of the Gulf Stream (GS) is presented. A container vessel that operates on a weekly schedule between Port Elizabeth, New ...

    • A Practical Guide to Wavelet Analysis 

      Torrence, Christopher; Compo, Gilbert P. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      A practical step-by-step guide to wavelet analysis is given, with examples taken from time series of the El Niño?Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The guide includes a comparison to the windowed Fourier transform, the choice ...

    • Clarifying the Dynamics of the General Circulation: Phillips's 1956 Experiment 

      Lewis, John M. (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      In the mid-1950s, amid heated debate over the physical mechanisms that controlled the known features of the atmosphere's general circulation, Norman Phillips simulated hemispheric motion on the high-speed computer at the ...

    • Status of and Outlook for Large-Scale Modeling of Atmosphere–Ice–Ocean Interactions in the Arctic 

      Randall, David; Curry, Judith; Battisti, David; Flato, Gregory; Grumbine, Robert; Hakkinen, Sirpa; Martinson, Doug; Preller, Ruth; Walsh, John; Weatherly, John (American Meteorological Society, 1998)
      Arctic air masses have direct impacts on the weather and climatic extremes of midlatitude areas such as central North America. Arctic physical processes pose special and very important problems for global atmospheric models ...

    • Distributed Numerical Weather Prediction via Satellite 

      Powers, Jordan G.; Stoelinga, Mark T.; Boyd, William S. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      This paper describes a recent undertaking in distributed numerical weather prediction via high data rate networks. The governing project involved the operation of a coupled mesoscale modeling system on widely separated ...

    • The Definition of El Niño 

      Trenberth, Kevin E. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      A review is given of the meaning of the term "El Niño" and how it has changed in time, so there is no universal single definition. This needs to be recognized for scientific uses, and precision can only be achieved if the ...

    • The Combined Sensor Program: An Air–Sea Science Mission in the Central and Western Pacific Ocean 

      Post, Madison J.; Fairall, Christopher W.; Snider, Jack B.; Han, Yong; White, Allen B.; Ecklund, Warner L.; Weickmann, Klaus M.; Quinn, Patricia K.; Cooper, Daniel I.; Sekelsky, Steven M.; McIntosh, Robert E.; Minnett, Peter; Knuteson, Robert O. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      Twelve national research organizations joined forces on a 30-day, 6800 n mi survey of the Central and Tropical Western Pacific on NOAA's Research Vessel Discoverer. The Combined Sensor Program (CSP), which began in American ...

    • Shipboard Radar Rainfall Patterns within the TOGA COARE IFA 

      Short, David A.; Kucera, Paul A.; Ferrier, Brad S.; Gerlach, John C.; Rutledge, Steven A.; Thiele, Otto W. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      Radar rainfall measurements over the equatorial western Pacific warm pool were collected by two shipboard Doppler radars as part of the Tropical Oceans Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean?Atmosphere Response Experiment during ...

    • Ensemble Forecasting of Hurricane Tracks 

      Zhang, Z.; Krishnamurti, T. N. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      Because of the initial data uncertainties, it is inevitable that operational hurricane track forecasting practice would, in the future, follow an ensemble forecast approach. The ensemble technique is becoming increasingly ...

    • Performance of an Advanced MOS System in the 1996–97 National Collegiate Weather Forecasting Contest 

      Vislocky, Robert L.; Fritsch, J. Michael (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      A prototype advanced model output statistics (MOS) forecast system that was entered in the 1996?97 National Collegiate Weather Forecast Contest is described and its performance compared to that of widely available objective ...

    • An Overview of the Global Historical Climatology Network Temperature Database 

      Peterson, Thomas C.; Vose, Russell S. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The Global Historical Climatology Network version 2 temperature database was released in May 1997. This century-scale dataset consists of monthly surface observations from ?7000 stations from around the world. This archive ...