Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • A Critical Review of the Australian Experience in Cloud Seeding 

      Ryan, Brian F.; King, Warren D. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      From 1947 to 1994 a number of cloud-seeding experiments were done in Australia based on the static cloud-seeding hypothesis. A critical analysis of these successive cloud-seeding experiments, coupled with microphysical ...

    • Climate and Salmon Restoration in the Columbia River Basin: The Role and Usability of Seasonal Forecasts 

      Pulwarty, Roger S.; Redmond, Kelly T. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The Pacific Northwest is dependent on the vast and complex Columbia River system for power production, irrigation, navigation, flood control, recreation, municipal and industrial water supplies, and fish and wildlife ...

    • The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Combined Precipitation Dataset 

      Huffman, George J.; Adler, Robert F.; Arkin, Philip; Chang, Alfred; Ferraro, Ralph; Gruber, Arnold; Janowiak, John; McNab, Alan; Rudolf, Bruno; Schneider, Udo (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) has released the GPCP Version 1 Combined Precipitation Data Set, a global, monthly precipitation dataset covering the period July 1987 through December 1995. The primary ...

    • Interactions between Global SST Anomalies and the Midlatitude Atmospheric Circulation 

      Lau, Ngar-Cheung (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      A review is given of the processes contributing to variability of the atmosphere?ocean system on interannual timescales. Particular emphasis is placed on the relationships between midlatitude atmospheric fluctuations and ...

    • On Solar Energy Disposition:A Perspective from Observation and Modeling 

      Li, Zhanqing; Moreau, Louis; Arking, Albert (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      Solar energy disposition (SED) concerns the amount of solar radiation reflected to space, absorbed in the atmosphere, and absorbed at the surface. The state of knowledge on SED is examined by comparing eight datasets from ...

    • Meteorological Conditions Associated with the ATR72 Aircraft Accident near Roselawn, Indiana, on 31 October 1994 

      Marwitz, J.; Politovich, M.; Bernstein, B.; Ralph, F.; Neiman, P.; Ashenden, R.; Bresch, J. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      An ATR72 commuter aircraft crashed near Roselawn, Indiana, on 31 October 1994 killing all 68 people on board. Available weather data, including those from a Next Generation Radar, a radar wind profiler, a Geostationary ...

    • Recent State Minimum Temperature Records in the Midwest 

      Schmidlin, Thomas W. (American Meteorological Society, 1997)
      State minimum temperature records were set or tied in Indiana (?37.8°C) and Kentucky (?38.3°C) in January 1994, and in Illinois (?37.2°C), Iowa (?43.9°C), Minnesota (?51.1°C), and Wisconsin (?48.3°C) in February 1996. The ...

    • educational affairs 

      Cortinas, John V.; Schneider, Jeanne M.; Straka, Jerry M.; Beasley, William H.; Machacek, Cynthia M. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The 1995 Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at the Oklahoma Weather Center introduced 14 students to the rigor of meteorological research, as well as provided them with information to help make informed career ...

    • Atlantic Hurricanes in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 

      Fernández-Partagás, José; Diaz, Henry F. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      A historical revision of Atlantic tropical cyclones for the period 1851?90 is presented. This work was undertaken with the aim of improving knowledge of the tropical storms and hurricanes in the North Atlantic basin, which ...

    • Results from the GPCP Algorithm Intercomparison Programme 

      Ebert, Elizabeth E.; Manton, Michael J.; Arkin, Philip A.; Allam, Richard J.; Holpin, Cary E.; Gruber, Arnold (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      Three algorithm intercomparison experiments have recently been conducted as part of the Global Precipitation Climatology Project with the goal of (a) assessing the skill of current satellite rainfall algorithms, (b) ...

    • educational affairs 

      Nielsen-Gammon, John W.; Biggerstaff, Michael I.; Alcorn, Marion E.; Austin, Daniel; Bowman, Kenneth P.; Djurić, Dušan; Guynes, Jerry; Lee Panetta, R.; White, Robert; Wicker, Louis J. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      Improvements in computer technology, particularly the explosive growth of Internet applications, have created unprecedented educational opportunities, but with concomitantly little experience on how educators can best take ...

    • Green Thunderstorms Observed 

      Gallagher, Frank W.; Beasley, William H.; Bohren, Craig F. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      Green thunderstorms have been observed from time to time in association with deep convection or severe weather events. Often the green coloration has been attributed to hail or to reflections of light from green foliage ...

    • educational affairs 

      Goody, Richard; Sobel, Adam (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The authors describe a short, graduate radiation course that is based upon exercises with modern numerical radiation codes.

    • Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Studies (CIRPAS) 

      Bluth, R. T.; Durkee, P. A.; Finn, P.; Russell, L. M.; Seinfeld, J. H.; Flagan, R. C.; Russell, L. M.; Crowley, P. A. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      A remotely piloted aircraft research facility is described that will provide new capabilities for atmospheric and oceanographic measurements. The aircraft can fly up to 24 h over remote ocean regions, at low or high altitude, ...

    • Weather Modification A Theoretician's Viewpoint 

      Young, Kenneth C. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      Early progress in weather modification is attributed to a healthy interaction between theory and experiment. During the 1970s, a divergence of approaches took place. A ?theoretical/experimental? approach, exemplified by ...

    • The CERES/ARM/GEWEX Experiment (CAGEX) for the Retrieval of Radiative Fluxes with Satellite Data 

      Charlock, Thomas P.; Alberta, Timothy L. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      Results from a temporally intensive, limited area, radiative transfer model experiment are on-line for investigating the vertical profile of shortwave and longwave radiative fluxes from the surface to the top of the ...

    • A University Perspective on Global Climate Modeling 

      Randall, David A. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      Global atmospheric models are proliferating, in part because of the widespread availability of powerful computers. There are about two dozen global modeling groups at work in the United States today. These groups are put ...

    • Exploratory Analysis of the Difference between Temperature Observations Recorded by ASOS and Conventional Methods 

      Guttman, Nathaniel B.; Baker, C. Bruce (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The Automated Surface Observing System is currently replacing conventional observations at the National Weather Service, the Federal Aviation Administration, and other stations that report hourly observations. From a ...

    • The NOAA Integrated Surface Irradiance Study (ISIS)—A New Surface Radiation Monitoring Program 

      Hicks, B. B.; DeLuisi, J. J.; Matt, D. R. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      This paper describes a new radiation monitoring program, the Integrated Surface Irradiance Study (ISIS), that builds upon and takes over from earlier NOAA networks monitoring components of solar radiation [both the visible ...

    • C.-G. Rossby: Geostrophic Adjustment as an outgrowth of Modeling the Gulf Stream 

      Lewis, J. M. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      Carl-Gustaf Rossby (1898?1957) was chosen to head the first U.S. program in modem meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1928. The steps that led to this appointment are briefly reviewed as well ...