Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Documentation of the AMIP Models on the World Wide Web 

      Phillips, Thomas J. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      Summary documentation of the numerics, dynamics, and physics of models participating in the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project is now available on the Internet's World Wide Web. In this article the principal attributes ...

    • An Eight-Year Lightning Climatology of the Southeast United States Prepared for the 1996 Summer Olympics 

      Watson, Andrew I.; Holle, Ronald L. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The 1996 Summer Olympics will be held in the Atlanta, Georgia, vicinity and several other sites in the southeast United States between 19 July and 4 August 1996. This period coincides with the peak thunderstorm season, so ...

    • A Multiyear Global Surface Wind Velocity Dataset Using SSM/I Wind Observations 

      Atlas, R.; Hoffman, R. N.; Bloom, S. C.; Jusem, J. C.; Ardizzone, J. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The Special Sensor Microwave Imagers (SSM/I) aboard three DMSP satellites have provided a large dataset of surface wind speeds over the global oceans from July 1987 to the present. These data are characterized by high ...

    • educational affairs 

      McPherson, Renee A.; Crawford, Kenneth C. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The EARTHSTORM Project is a K?12 teacher enhancement program for Oklahoma science and mathematics teachers who desire to incorporate real-time environmental data into their classroom activities. EARTHSTORM provides a model ...

    • Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES): An Earth Observing System Experiment 

      Wielicki, Bruce A.; Barkstrom, Bruce R.; Harrison, Edwin F.; Lee, Robert B.; Louis Smith, G.; Cooper, John E. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) is an investigation to examine the role of cloud/radiation feedback in the Earth's climate system. The CERES broadband scanning radiometers are an improved version of ...

    • educational affairs 

      Ginger, Kathryn M.; Geer, Ira W.; Moran, Joseph M.; Weinbeck, Robert S.; Snow, John T.; Smith, David R. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      For the second consecutive summer, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) conducted four teacher and faculty enhancement workshops in the atmospheric sciences. Project ATMOSPHERE, the K?12 educational initiative of the ...

    • An Eight-Year (1987–1994) Time Series of Rainfall, Clouds, Water Vapor, Snow Cover, and Sea Ice Derived from SSM/I Measurements 

      Ferraro, Ralph R.; Grody, Norman C.; Weng, Fuzhong; Basist, Alan (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I), first placed into operation in July 1987, has been making measurements of earth-emitted radiation for over eight years. These data are used to estimate both atmospheric and ...

    • Upgrading the North American Upper-Air Observing Network: What are the Possibilities? 

      Douglas, Michael W.; Stensrud, David J. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The current modernization and restructuring of the National Weather Service (NWS) to date has not involved the rehabilitation of the upper-air observing network over North America. The authors discuss the need for a thorough ...

    • Workstation-Based Real-Time Mesoscale Modeling Designed for Weather Support to Operations at the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Station 

      Manobianco, John; Taylor, Gregory E.; Zack, John W. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      This paper describes the capabilities and operational utility of a version of the Mesoscale Atmospheric Simulation System (MASS) that has been developed to support operational weather forecasting at the Kennedy Space Center ...

    • Hurricane Andrew in Florida: Dynamics of a Disaster 

      Willoughby, H. E.; Black, P. G. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      Four meteorological factors aggravated the devastation when Hurricane Andrew struck South Florida: completed replacement of the original eyewall by an outer, concentric eyewall while Andrew was still at sea; storm translation ...

    • An observational Study of the “Interstate 5” Dust Storm Case 

      Pauley, Patricia M.; Baker, Nancy L.; Barker, Edward H. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      On 29 November 1991 a series of collisions involving 164 vehicles occurred on Interstate 5 in the San Joaquin Valley in California in a dust storm that reduced the visibility to near zero. The accompanying high surface ...

    • Ultraviolet Index Forecasts Issued by the National Weather Service 

      Long, Craig S.; Miller, Alvin J.; Lee, Hai-Tien; Wild, Jeannette D.; Przywarty, Richard C.; Hufford, Drusilia (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The National Weather Service (NWS), in collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), now issues an Ultraviolet (UV) index forecast. The UV index (UVI) is a mechanism by which the American public is forewarned ...

    • Tallahassee, Florida, Minimum Temperature Anomaly: Description and Speculations 

      Elsner, J. B.; Fuelberg, H. E.; Deal, R. L.; Orrock, J. A.; Lehmiller, G. S.; Ruscher, P. H. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The Tallahassee Regional Airport, on the city's southwest side, has a minimum temperature that is colder than minima of neighboring towns and other parts of Tallahassee when clear and calm conditions prevail over the area. ...

    • The New Zealand Southern Alps Experiment 

      Wratt, D. S.; Ridley, R. N.; Sinclair, M. R.; Larsen, H.; Thompson, S. M.; Henderson, R.; Austin, G. L.; Bradley, S. G.; Auer, A.; Sturman, A. P.; Owens, I.; Fitzharris, B.; Ryan, B. F.; Gayet, J-F. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The Southern Alps Experiment is being mounted to study the influence of New Zealand's Southern Alps on local weather and climate. This paper describes these alpine influences and outlines proposed field and modeling ...

    • The Clear-Air Coastal Vespertine Radar Bands 

      Sauvageot, Henri; Despaux, Gilbert (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      It is known that the insects observed in the lower layers of the atmosphere produce radar echos and that their spatiotemporal distribution is strongly influenced by the meteorological conditions and the thermodynamic ...

    • The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project 

      Kalnay, E.; Kanamitsu, M.; Kistler, R.; Collins, W.; Deaven, D.; Gandin, L.; Iredell, M.; Saha, S.; White, G.; Woollen, J.; Zhu, Y.; Leetmaa, A.; Reynolds, R.; Chelliah, M.; Ebisuzaki, W.; Higgins, W.; Janowiak, J.; Mo, K. C.; Ropelewski, C.; Wang, J.; Jenne, Roy; Joseph, Dennis (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The NCEP and NCAR are cooperating in a project (denoted ?reanalysis?) to produce a 40-year record of global analyses of atmospheric fields in support of the needs of the research and climate monitoring communities. This ...

    • Salaries and Advancement of Women Faculty in Atmospheric Science: Some Reasons for Concern 

      Winkler, Julie A.; Tucker, Donna; Smith, Anne K. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      Zevin and Seitter's analyses of the 1993 American Meteorological Society membership survey indicated that university/college employees had the largest difference in salary by gender when controlling for experience and age. ...

    • Enhanced Depiction of Surface Weather Features 

      Fritsch, J. Michael; Vislocky, Robert L. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      Examples of current surface-analysis problems and opportunities are presented. A prototype analysis procedure that simulates some of the new automated analysis capabilities at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction ...

    • SST-Forced Seasonal Simulation and Prediction Skill for Versions of the NCEP/MRF Model 

      Livezey, Robert E.; Masutani, Michiko; Jil, Ming (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The feasibility of using a two-tier approach to provide guidance to operational long-lead seasonal prediction is explored. The approach includes first a forecast of global sea surface temperatures (SSTs) using a coupled ...

    • survey 

      Houghton, David D.; Glickman, Todd S.; Dannenberg, Jane; Marsh, Stanley L. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      No abstract available.