Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Extracting Synoptic-Scale Diagnostic Information from Mesoscale Models: The Eta Model, Gravity Waves, and Quasigeostrophic Diagnostics 

      Barnes, Stanley L.; Caracena, Fernando; Marroquin, Adrian (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      Fine-mesh models, such as the eta model, are producing increasingly detailed predictions about mesoscale atmospheric motions. Mesoscale systems typically produce stronger vertical motions than do synoptic-scale storms, ...

    • Solar Semidiurnal Tides in the Troposphere: Detection by Radar Profilers 

      Whiteman, C. David; Bian, Xindi (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      A short review of solar semidiurnal atmospheric tides is presented. Semidiurnal atmospheric tides have been documented in the troposphere primarily through analyses of long time series of surface pressure measurements, ...

    • Simulation of a Stratocumulus-Topped Planetary Boundary Layer: Intercomparison among Different Numerical Codes 

      Moeng, C-H.; Cotton, W. R.; Stevens, B.; Bretherton, C.; Rand, H. A.; Chlond, A.; Khairoutdinov, M.; Krueger, S.; Lewellen, W. S.; MacVean, M. K.; Pasquier, J. R. M.; Siebesma, A. P.; Sykes, R. I. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      This paper reports an intercomparison study of a stratocumulus-topped planetary boundary layer (PBL) generated from ten 3D large eddy simulation (LES) codes and four 2D cloud-resolving models (CRMs). These models vary in ...

    • Real-Time Operational Forecasting on Shipboard of the Iceland-Faeroe Frontal Variability 

      Robinson, A. R.; Arango, H. G.; Leslie, W. G.; Miller, A. J.; Warn-Varnas, A.; Poulain, P-M. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      Real-time operational shipboard forecasts of Iceland-Faeroe frontal variability were executed for the first time with a primitive equation mode. High quality, intensive hydrographic surveys during August 1993 were used for ...

    • Research Opportunities from Emerging Atmospheric Observing and Modeling Capabilities 

      Dabberdt, Walter F.; Schlatter, Thomas W. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The Second Prospectus Development Team (PDT-2) of the U.S. Weather Research Program was charged with identifying research opportunities that are best matched to emerging operational and experimental measurement and modeling ...

    • Indices of Climate Change for the United States 

      Karl, Thomas R.; Knight, Richard W.; Easterling, David R.; Quayle, Robert G. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      A framework is presented to quantify observed changes in climate within the contiguous United States through the development and analysis of two indices of climate change, a Climate Extremes Index (CEI) and a U.S. Greenhouse ...

    • A Historical Perspective of U.S. Climate Divisions 

      Guttman, Nathaniel B.; Quayle, Robert G. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The history of climatic divisions in the contiguous United States has been pieced together from fragmentary documentation. Each of the 48 contiguous states has been subdivided into climatic divisions. Divisional boundaries ...

    • The ELDORA/ASTRAIA Airborne Doppler Weather Radar: High-Resolution Observations from TOGA COARE 

      Hildebrand, Peter H.; Lee, Wen-Chau; Walther, Craig A.; Frush, Charles; Randall, Mitchell; Loew, Eric; Neitzel, Richard; Parsons, Richard; Testud, Jacques; Baudin, François; LeCornec, Alain (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The ELDORA/ASTRAIA (Electra Doppler Radar/Analyese Stereoscopic par Impulsions Aeroporte) airborne Doppler weather radar was recently placed in service by the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Centre d'étude ...

    • Visiting TOGA's Past 

      Halpern, David (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The origin of the Tropical Oceans-Global Atmosphere (TOGA) Program was closely related to the response of global atmospheric circulation to sea surface temperature variations in the tropical Pacific Ocean, which is evident ...

    • Winter 1994 Weather and Ice Conditions for the Laurentian Great Lakes 

      Assel, Raymond A.; Janowiak, John E.; Young, Sharolyn; Boyce, Daron (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The Laurentian Great Lakes developed their most extensive ice cover in over a decade during winter 1994 [December-February 1993/94 (DJF 94)]. Extensive midlake ice formation started the second half of January, about 2 weeks ...

    • Solar Eclipse Effect on Shelter Air Temperature 

      Segal, M.; Turner, R. W.; Prusa, J.; Bitzer, R. J.; Finley, S. V. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      Decreases in shelter temperature during eclipse events were quantified on the basis of observations, numerical model simulations, and complements conceptual evaluations. Observations for the annular eclipse on 10 May 1994 ...

    • Numerical Prediction of Precipitation and River Flow over the Russian River Watershed during the January 1995 California Storms 

      Miller, Norman L.; Kim, Jinwon (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      Precipitation and river flow during a January 1995 flood event over the Russian River watershed in the northern Coastal Range of California were simulated using the University of California Lawrence Livermore National ...

    • Philip Thompson: Pages from a Scientist's Life 

      Lewis, John M. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      Philip Thompson (1922?94) pioneered innovative approaches to weather analysis and prediction that blended determinism and probability. He generally posed problems in terms of simplified dynamics that were amenable to ...

    • On the Global Variation of Precipitating Layer Clouds 

      Ryan, B. F. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The aim of the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment Cloud System Study (GCSS) is to promote the description and understanding of key cloud system processes, with the aim of developing and improving the representation ...

    • The Story behind the Bowen Ratio 

      Lewis, J. M. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      Ira Sprague Bowen (1898?1973) was a prominent astrophysicist during the twentieth century. In his impressive oeuvre of work over the 50-year span (1920?70), there appears a lone contribution to the geophysical sciences on ...

    • Serving Science and Society: Lessons from Large-Scale Atmospheric Science Programs 

      Pielke, Roger A.; Glantz, Michael H. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      No abstract available.

    • A Mesoscale Meteorology Course for University Faculty 

      Johnson, Victoria C.; Carr, Frederick H. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      No abstract available.

    • Teaching Mesoscale Meteorology in the Age of the Modernized National Weather Service: A Report on the Unidata/COMET Workshop 

      Ramamurthy, Mohan K.; Murphy, Charles; Moore, James; Wetzel, Melanie; Knight, David; Ruscher, Paul; Mullen, Steve; DeSouza, Russel; Hawk, Denise S.; Fulker, David (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      This report summarizes discussions that took place during a Unidata Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education, and Training (COMET) workshop on Mesoscale Meteorology Instruction in the Age of the Modernized ...

    • GPS Sounding of the Atmosphere from Low Earth Orbit: Preliminary Results 

      Ware, R.; Rocken, C.; Solheim, F.; Exner, M.; Schreiner, W.; Anthes, R.; Feng, D.; Herman, B.; Gorbunov, M.; Sokolovskiy, S.; Hardy, K.; Kuo, Y.; Zou, X.; Trenberth, K.; Meehan, T.; Melbourne, W.; Businger, S. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      This paper provides an overview of the methodology of and describes preliminary results from an experiment called GPS/MET (Global Positioning System/Meteorology), in which temperature soundings are obtained from a low ...

    • The Promise of GPS in Atmospheric Monitoring 

      Businger, Steven; Chiswell, Steven R.; Bevis, Michael; Duan, Jingping; Anthes, Richard A.; Rocken, Christian; Ware, Randolph H.; Exner, Michael; VanHove, T.; Solheim, Fredrick S. (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      This paper provides an overview of applications of the Global Positioning System (GPS) for active measurement of the Earth's atmosphere. Microwave radio signals transmitted by GPS satellites are delayed (refracted) by the ...