Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • From the Tropics to the Poles in Forty Days 

      Rom-Kedar, Vered; Paldor, Nathan (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      Field experiments show that the poleward velocity of high-altitude weather balloons may, on rare occasions, be much higher than the observed poleward winds, while their eastward velocity is much slower than the observed ...

    • Severe Thunderstorm and Tornado Warnings at Raleigh, North Carolina 

      Hoium, Debra K.; Riordan, Allen J.; Monahan, John; Keeter, Kermit K. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The National Weather Service issues public warnings for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes when these storms appear imminent. A study of the warning process was conducted at the National Weather Service Forecast Office at ...

    • Global Precipitation: A 17-Year Monthly Analysis Based on Gauge Observations, Satellite Estimates, and Numerical Model Outputs 

      Xie, Pingping; Arkin, Phillip A. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      Gridded fields (analyses) of global monthly precipitation have been constructed on a 2.5° latitude?longitude grid for the 17-yr period from 1979 to 1995 by merging several kinds of information sources with different ...

    • Does the Surface Pressure Equal the Weight per Unit Area of a Hydrostatic Atmosphere? 

      Bannon, Peter R.; Bishop, Craig H.; Kerr, James B. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The common statement that the surface pressure in a hydrostatic atmosphere is equal to the weight per unit area of the air aloft is shown to be true only for a Cartesian world. Here the unit area is the surface area of the ...

    • What Is an Adjoint Model? 

      Errico, Ronald M. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      Adjoint models are powerful tools for many studies that require an estimate of sensitivity of model output (e.g., a forecast) with respect to input. Actual fields of sensitivity are produced directly and efficiently, which ...

    • Further Analysis of the 1995 AMS Private Sector Survey: A Comparison of the Broadcast and Nonbroadcast Communities 

      Newman, Steven B. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      No abstract available.

    • A Tutorial on Lateral Boundary Conditions as a Basic and Potentially Serious Limitation to Regional Numerical Weather Prediction 

      Warner, Thomas T.; Peterson, Ralph A.; Treadon, Russell E. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      Limited-area models (LAMs) are presently used for a wide variety of research and operational forecasting applications, and such use will likely expand greatly as the rapid increase in the performance/price ratio of computers ...

    • The Lettau–Schwerdtfeger Balloon Experiment: Measurement of Turbulence via Austausch Theory 

      Lewis, John M. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      In the early 1930s, Heinz Lettau and Werner Schwerdtfeger made direct measurements of air motion in the lowest 4 km of the troposphere by using the manned free balloon as an instrumented platform. The experiment was motivated ...

    • Decadal Climate Variability in the North Pacific during the Recent Decades 

      Nakamura, H.; Lin, G.; Yamagata, T. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      Decadal wintertime variability in the North Pacific climate system observed over the last few decades is documented. The decadal sea surface temperature (SST) variability is found to be concentrated around two major oceanic ...

    • The NCEP Regional Spectral Model: An Update 

      Juang, Hann-Ming Henry; Hong, Song-You; Kanamitsu, Masao (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)/Environmental Modeling Center regional spectral model (RSM) has been improved in several aspects since Juang and Kanamitsu. The major improvements of RSM are its ...

    • Initial Selection of a GCOS Surface Network 

      Peterson, Thomas; Daan, Harald; Jones, Philip (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      To monitor the world's climate adequately, scientists need data from the ?best? climate stations exchanged internationally on a real-time basis. To make this vision a reality, a global surface reference climatological ...

    • Stratiform Precipitation in Regions of Convection: A Meteorological Paradox? 

      Houze, Robert A. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      It was once generally thought that stratiform precipitation was something occurring primarily, if not exclusively, in middle latitudes?in baroclinic cyclones and fronts. Early radar observations in the Tropics, however, ...

    • The North American Monsoon 

      Adams, David K.; Comrie, Andrew C. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The North American monsoon is an important feature of the atmospheric circulation over the continent, with a research literature that dates back almost 100 years. The authors review the wide range of past and current ...

    • Space and Time Scales in Ambient Ozone Data 

      Rao, S. T.; Zurbenko, I. G.; Neagu, R.; Porter, P. S.; Ku, J. Y.; Henry, R. F. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      This paper describes the characteristic space and time scales in time series of ambient ozone data. The authors discuss the need and a methodology for cleanly separating the various scales of motion embedded in ozone time ...

    • Verification of Public Weather Forecasts Available via the Media 

      Brooks, Harold E.; Witt, Arthur; Eilts, Michael D. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The question of who is the ?best? forecaster in a particular media market is one that the public frequently asks. The authors have collected approximately one year's forecasts from the National Weather Service and major ...

    • Sea Surface Temperatures from the GOES-8 Geostationary Satellite 

      Legeckis, Richard; Zhu, Tong (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The introduction of the 10-bit, five-band, multispectral visible and thermal infrared scanner on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's GOES-8 satellite in 1994 offers an opportunity to estimate sea surface ...

    • Interactive Visualization of Climate Data on the World Wide Web 

      Scott, James; Alexander, Michael; Collins, Julia; Smith, Cathy (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      No abstract available.

    • Storm Peak Laboratory: A Research, Teaching, and Service Facility for the Atmospheric Sciences 

      Borys, Randolph D.; Wetzel, Melanie A. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The Storm Peak Laboratory (SPL), operated by the Atmospheric Sciences Center of the Desert Research Institute, is now located in a newly constructed permanent building at elevation 3210 m (10?530 ft) above mean sea level ...

    • The Fronts and Atlantic Storm-Track Experiment (FASTEX): Scientific Objectives and Experimental Design 

      Joly, Alain; Jorgensen, Dave; Shapiro, Melvyn A.; Thorpe, Alan; Bessemoulin, Pierre; Browning, Keith A.; Cammas, Jean-Pierre; Chalon, Jean-Pierre; Clough, Sidney A.; Emanuel, Kerry A.; Eymard, Laurence; Gall, Robert; Hildebrand, Peter H.; Langland, Rolf H.; Lemaître, Yvon; Lynch, Peter; Moore, James A.; Persson, P. Ola G.; Snyder, Chris; Wakimoto, Roger M. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The Fronts and Atlantic Storm-Track Experiment (FASTEX) will address the life cycle of cyclones evolving over the North Atlantic Ocean in January and February 1997. The objectives of FASTEX are to improve the forecasts of ...

    • Application of Hypermedia and Expert System Technology to Navy Environmental Satellite Image Analysis 

      Fett, Robert W.; White, Marie E.; Peak, James E.; Brand, Sam; Tag, Paul M. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division, over a period of more than 15 years, has developed a series of satellite imagery training documents called the Navy Tactical Applications Guides (NTAGs). The NTAG ...