Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Hydrologic Processes Associated with Cyclone Systems over the United States 

      Chen, Tsing-Chang; Yen, Ming-Cheng; Schubert, Siegfried (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      A substantial amount of precipitation in the midlatitudes occurs in association with extratropical cyclones. Using the data generated by version 1 of the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS-1) Data Assimilation System for ...

    • The Philadelphia Hot Weather-Health Watch/Warning System: Development and Application, Summer 1995 

      Kalkstein, Laurence S.; Jamason, Paul F.; Greene, J. Scott; Libby, Jerry; Robinson, Lawrence (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      Last summer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, instituted a new Hot Weather-Health Watch/Warning System (PWWS) to alert the city's residents of potentially oppressive weather situations that could negatively affect health. In ...

    • Weather Radar Polarimetry-Trends Toward Operational Applications 

      Zrnić, Dušan S. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      This is a version of a speech presented at the 27th Conference on Radar Meteorology. Relative advantages of polarimetry are contrasted with the advantages accrued by the introduction of radar into meteorology and by the ...

    • A Review of Cloud Modeling in Weather Modification 

      Orville, Harold D. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The numerical modeling of clouds has a history almost as long as the modern-day concepts of the seeding of clouds. The various models and theoretical developments emerging from the model results are reviewed in this paper. ...

    • The Spectral Radiance Experiment (SPECTRE): Project Description and Sample Results 

      Ellingson, Robert G.; Wiscombe, Warren J. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The fundamental climatic role of radiative processes has spurred the development of increasingly sophisticated models of radiative transfer in the earth-atmosphere system. Since the basic physics of radiative transfer is ...

    • The S-1 Chronicle: A Tribute to Bernhard Haurwitz 

      Platzman, George W. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The diurnal tide in surface pressure was explained theoretically in 1967, with the help of a framework that had been built up in the preceding six years. A significant contribution to this framework was made by Bernhard ...

    • The July 1995 Heat Wave in the Midwest: A Climatic Perspective and Critical Weather Factors 

      Kunkel, Kenneth E.; Changnon, Stanley A.; Reinke, Beth C.; Arritt, Raymond W. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      A brief but intense heat wave developed in the central and eastern United States in mid-July 1995, causing hundreds of fatalities. The most notable feature of this event was the development of very high dewpoint temperature ...

    • Impacts and Responses to the 1995 Heat Wave: A Call to Action 

      Changnon, Stanley A.; Kunkel, Kenneth E.; Reinke, Beth C. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The short but intense heat wave in mid-July 1995 caused 830 deaths nationally, with 525 of these deaths in Chicago. Many of the dead were elderly. and the event raised great concern over why it happened. Assessment of ...

    • A New Global Water Vapor Dataset 

      Randel, David L.; Greenwald, Thomas J.; Vonder Haar, Thomas H.; Stephens, Graeme L.; Ringerud, Mark A.; Combs, Cynthia L. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      A comprehensive and accurate global water vapor dataset is critical to the adequate understanding of water vapor's role in the earth's climate system. To begin to satisfy this need, the authors have produced a blended ...

    • educational affairs 

      Mass, Clifford F. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      No Abstract Available

    • A Climatology, Synoptic Assessment, and Thermodynamic Evaluation for Cloud-to-Ground Lightning in Georgia: A study for the 1996 Summer Olympics 

      Livingston, Eric S.; Nielsen-Gammon, John W.; Orville, Richard E. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      A lightning climatology within 50 km of nine outdoor venue locations for the 1996 Summer Olympics has been produced. Spatial and temporal patterns were analyzed for July and August from 1986 through 1993. Unusually active ...

    • ELDORA Observations during VORTEX 95 

      Wakimoto, Roger M.; Lee, Wen-Chau; Bluestein, Howard B.; Liu, Ching-Hwang; Hildebrand, Peter H. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      Airborne radar platforms have played an increasingly important role in advancing our understanding of storms that are either too remote or occur too infrequently for ground-based radars. Recognizing this potential, the ...

    • Defining Mesoscale Convective Systems by Their 85-GHz Ice-Scattering Signatures 

      Mohr, Karen I.; Zipser, Edward J. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      Mesoseale Convective systems are composed of numerous deep convective cells with varying amounts of large, convectively produced ice particles aloft. The magnitude of the 85-GHz brightness temperature depression resulting ...

    • A New Conceptual Model for Cyclones Generated in the Lee of the Rocky Mountains 

      Hobbs, Peter V.; Locatelli, John D.; Martin, Jonathan E. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      When a shortwave trough moves eastward over the Rocky Mountains and into the central United States, the following important features may form: a drytrough (i.e., a lee trough that also has the characteristics of a dryline), ...

    • The Antarctic Zone Flux Experiment 

      McPhee, M. G.; Ackley, S. F.; Guest, P.; Stanton, T. P.; Huber, B. A.; Martinson, D. G.; Morison, J. H.; Muench, R. D.; Padman, L. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      In winter the eastern Weddell Sea in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean hosts some of the most dynamic air-ice-sea interactions found on earth. Sea ice in the region is kept relatively thin by heat flux from below, ...

    • Interdecadal Variation in U.S. Pacific Coast Precipitation over the Past Four Decades 

      Chen, Tsing-Chang; Chen, Jau-Ming; Wikle, Christopher K. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The interdecadal variation of precipitation along the U.S. Pacific coast over the past 45 winters (1950?94) was examined with station observations. An interdecadal decreasing (minor increasing) trend appeared north (south) ...

    • Recent Trends in Rain Gauge Precipitation Measurements from the Tropical Pacific: Evidence for an Enhanced Hydrologic Cycle 

      Morrissey, Mark L.; Graham, Nicholas E. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      Analysis of recently compiled tropical Pacific rain gauge measurements shows a trend toward increased precipitation in the central tropical Pacific during the period 1971?90. Previous studies of precipitation trends in ...

    • The Impact of Omega Dropwindsondes on Operational Hurricane Track Forecast Models 

      Burpee, Robert W.; Aberson, Sim D.; Franklin, James L.; Lord, Stephen J.; Tuleya, Robert E. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      Since 1982, the Hurricane Research Division (HRD) has conducted a series of experiments with research aircraft to enhance the number of observations in the environment and the core of hurricanes threatening the United ...

    • Winds over the World Sea: Maury and Köppen 

      Lewis, J. M. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      In response to the needs of the ocean traders and military shipping during the nineteenth century, Matthew Maury (1806?73) and Wiadimir Köppen (1846?1940) worked in tandem to create wind charts for the World Ocean. In the ...

    • AMS Programs in Support of Science and Education 

      Unknown author (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
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