Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • The Coastal Observation and Simulation with Topography (COAST) Experiment 

      Bond, Nicholas A.; Mass, Clifford F.; Smull, Bradley F.; Houze, Robert A.; Yang, Ming-Jen; Colle, Brian A.; Braun, Scott A.; Shapiro, M. A.; Colman, Bradley R.; Neiman, Paul J.; Overland, James E.; Neff, William D.; Doyle, James D. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The Coastal Observation and Simulation with Topography (COAST) program has examined the interaction of both steady-state and transient cool-season synoptic features, such as fronts and cyclones, with the coastal terrain ...

    • Atmospheric Water Vapor Transport in NCEP–NCAR Reanalyses: Comparison with River Discharge in the Central United States 

      Gutowski, William J.; Chen, Yibin; Ötles, Zekai (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The authors extract the water transport produced by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction reanalysis for a 10-yr period, 1984?93, and compare its convergence into two river basins with an independent dataset, ...

    • Advanced Weather Radar Systems in Europe: The COST 75 Action 

      Meischner, P.; Collier, C.; Illingworth, A.; Joss, J.; Randeu, W. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The European Union COST (Cooperation in Science and Technology) action on advanced weather radar systems is described. The associated five-year research project, which began in early 1993, has the objective to develop ...

    • Comparison of Tropospheric Temperatures Derived from the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis, NCEP Operational Analysis, and the Microwave Sounding Unit 

      Basist, Alan N.; Chelliah, Muthuvel (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The Climate Prediction Center has used atmospheric temperatures for data analysis from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) model since 1979. Unfortunately, model changes have adversely affected the ...

    • Characteristics of the TOVS Pathfinder Path A Dataset 

      Susskind, J.; Piraino, P.; Rokke, L.; Iredell, L.; Mehta, A. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The TIROS (Television Infrared Observation Satellite) Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) Pathfinder Path A dataset is currently a 9-yr dataset, 1985?93, of global fields of surface and atmospheric parameters derived from ...

    • Separating Different Scales of Motion in Time Series of Meteorological Variables 

      Eskridge, Robert E.; Ku, Jia Yeong; Rao, S. Trivikrama; Porter, P. Steven; Zurbenko, Igor G. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The removal of synoptic and seasonal signals from time series of meteorological variables leaves datasets amenable to the study of trends, climate change, and the reasons for such trends and changes. In this paper, four ...

    • Contrail-Cirrus and Their Potential for Regional Climate Change 

      Sassen, Kenneth (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      After reviewing the indirect evidence for the regional climatic impact of contrail-generated cirrus clouds (contrail-cirrus), the author presents a variety of new measurements indicating the nature and scope of the problem. ...

    • Surface Mesonets of the Western United States 

      Tucker, Donna F. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      In recent years the western United States has gone from being a region with relatively sparse surface observations to one that has a number of mesoscale networks maintained by a variety of interests. Expanding population ...

    • Boundary Layer Experiment 1996 (BLX96) 

      Stull, Roland; Santoso, Edi; Berg, Larry; Hacker, Joshua (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The University of Wyoming King Air aircraft was the primary instrument platform for turbulence measurements in the bottom half of the convective boundary layer during 15 July?13 August 1996. A total of 12 successful research ...

    • The Life Cycle of Stratospheric Aerosol Particles 

      Hamill, Patrick; Jensen, Eric J.; Russell, P. B.; Bauman, Jill J. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      This paper describes the life cycle of the background (nonvolcanic) stratospheric sulfate aerosol. The authors assume the particles are formed by homogeneous nucleation near the tropical tropopause and are carried aloft ...

    • The 1995 Chicago Heat Wave: How Likely Is a Recurrence? 

      Karl, Thomas R.; Knight, Richard W. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The deadly heat wave of July 1995 that affected much of the U.S. midwest, most notably Chicago, Illinois, has been put into historical perspective. The heat wave has been found to be remarkably unusual, but only partially ...

    • Fully Automated Cloud-Drift Winds in NESDIS Operations 

      Nieman, Steven J.; Menzel, W. Paul; Hayden, Christopher M.; Gray, Donald; Wanzong, Steven T.; Velden, Christopher S.; Daniels, Jaime (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      Cloud-drift winds have been produced from geostationary satellite data in the Western Hemisphere since the early 1970s. During the early years, winds were used as an aid for the short-term forecaster in an era when numerical ...

    • Short-Term Climate Variations: Recent Accomplishments and Issues for Future Progress 

      Trenberth, Kevin E. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      A short nontechnical review of the El Niño?Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon and the associated teleconnections to higher latitudes is given. ENSO has been shown to be predictable to some degree for over a year ahead, ...

    • How Dry is the Tropical Free Troposphere? Implications for Global Warming Theory 

      Spencer, Roy W.; Braswell, William D. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The humidity of the free troposphere is being increasingly scrutinized in climate research due to its central role in global warming theory through positive water vapor feedback. This feedback is the primary source of ...

    • Small Lake Daytime Breezes: Some Observational and Conceptual Evaluations 

      Segal, M.; Leuthold, M.; Arritt, R. W.; Anderson, C.; Shen, J. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The diversity of small lakes' (size <50 km) configurations, sizes, surrounding terrain, and land use combined with relative sparsity of observations complicates the observational evaluation of the lake breezes (LB) that ...

    • Lightning in the Region of the TOGA COARE 

      Orville, R. E.; Zipser, E. J.; Brook, M.; Weidman, C.; Aulich, G.; Krider, E. P.; Christian, H.; Goodman, S.; Blakeslee, R.; Cummins, K. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      In the fall of 1992 a lightning direction finder network was deployed in the western Pacific Ocean in the area of Papua New Guinea. Direction finders were installed on Kapingamarangi Atoll and near the towns of Rabaul and ...

    • Tropical Deep Convection and Ozone Formation 

      Thompson, Anne M.; Tao, Wei-Kuo; Pickering, Kenneth E.; Scala, John R.; Simpson, Joanne (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      Theoretical studies, aircraft, and space-borne measurements show that deep convection can be an effective conduit for introducing reactive surface pollutants into the free troposphere. The chemical consequences of convective ...

    • A Pacific Interdecadal Climate Oscillation with Impacts on Salmon Production 

      Mantua, Nathan J.; Hare, Steven R.; Zhang, Yuan; Wallace, John M.; Francis, Robert C. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      Evidence gleaned from the instrumental record of climate data identifies a robust, recurring pattern of ocean?atmosphere climate variability centered over the midlatitude North Pacific basin. Over the past century, the ...

    • GEWEX Cloud System Study (GCSS) Working Group 4: Precipitating Convective Cloud Systems 

      Moncrieff, Mitchell W.; Krueger, Steven K.; Gregory, David; Redelsperger, Jean-Luc; Tao, Wei-Kuo (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The authors present the objectives of the working group on precipitating convective cloud systems. These center on developing physically based parameterizations for global models in which basic research into the large-scale ...

    • Climatic Effects of Amazonian Deforestation: Some Results from ABRACOS 

      Gash, J. H. C.; Nobre, C. A. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      This paper reviews the climatological measurements and some of the modeling in the Anglo?Brazilian Amazonian Climate Observational Study (ABRACOS) project. The local-scale, mesoscale, and large-scale climatic impacts of ...