Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Observations of the Infrared Radiative Properties of the Ocean—Implications for the Measurement of Sea Surface Temperature via Satellite Remote Sensing 

      Smith, William L.; Knuteson, R. O.; Revercomb, H. E.; Feltz, W.; Nalli, N. R.; Howell, H. B.; Menzel, W. P.; Brown, Otis; Brown, James; Minnett, Peter; McKeown, Walter (American Meteorological Society, 1996)
      The Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) was used to measure the infrared radiative properties and the temperature of the Gulf of Mexico during a 5-day oceanographic cruise in January 1995. The ocean skin ...

    • Risk Communication: The Role of the South Carolina State Climatology Office 

      Smith, David J.; Purvis, John C.; Felts, Arthur (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      The federally supported state climatologist program ended in 1972. Thereafter, most states supported these endeavors in coordination with the National Climatic Data Center, but the current state programs vary widely. One ...

    • Climate Signal Detection Using Wavelet Transform: How to Make a Time Series Sing 

      Lau, K-M.; Weng, Hengyi (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      In this paper, the application of the wavelet transform (WT) to climate time series analyses is introduced. A tutorial description of the basic concept of WT compared with similar concepts used in music, is also provided. ...

    • Upper-Tropospheric Water Vapor from UARS MLS 

      Read, W. G.; Waters, J. W.; Flower, D. A.; Froidevaux, L.; Jarnot, R. F.; Hartmann, D. L.; Harwood, R. S.; Rood, R. B. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      Initial results of upper-tropospheric water vapor obtained from the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) are presented. MLS is less affected by clouds than infrared or visible ...

    • The Arctic Haze Phenomenon 

      Shaw, Glenn E. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      The arctic atmosphere is the repository for surprisingly high concentrations of pollutants throughout the winter months. The polluted air mass in question includes virtually all the atmosphere above the Arctic Circle and ...

    • A Regional Response to Climate Information Needs during the 1993 Flood 

      Kunkel, Kenneth E.; Changnon, Stanley A.; Hollinger, Steven E.; Reinke, Beth C.; Wendland, Wayne M.; Angel, James R. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      Effective responses by government agencies, businesses, and private industry to climate disasters such as the disastrous Mississippi River flood of 1993 hinge on the regional availability of diverse up-to-date weather, ...

    • Time Trends in Rainfall Records in Amazonia 

      Cauduro Dias de Paiva, Eloiza M.; Clarke, Robin T. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      This paper reports the results of statistical analyses for the detection of time trend in 48 rainfall records from sites in the Amazon Basin with more than 15 yr of record. Using a nonparametric test for trend in monthly ...

    • Studies of the Substructure of Severe Convective Storms Using a Mobile 3-mm-Wavelength Doppler Radar 

      Bluestein, Howard B.; Pazmany, Andrew L.; Galloway, John C.; Mcintosh, Robert E. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      An experiment whose objective was to determine the wind and reflectivity substructure of severe convective storms is detailed. A 3-mm-wavelength (95 GHz) pulsed Doppler radar was installed in a van and operated in the ...

    • Regional Simulations of Greenhouse Warming Including Natural Variability 

      Kim, Kwang-Y.; North, Gerald R. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      The perception of the hypothesized greenhouse effect will differ dramatically depending upon the location on the earth at which the effect is analyzed. This is due mainly to two causes: 1) the warming signal depends upon ...

    • Orthogonal Wavelet Analysis: Interannual Variability in the Sea Surface Temperature 

      Mak, Mankin (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      The unique capability of orthogonal wavelets, which have attractive time-frequency localization properties as exemplified by the Meyer wavelet, is demonstrated in a diagnosis of the interannual variability using a 44-year ...

    • Waves Forecasters in World War II (with a Brief Survey of Other Women Meteorologists in World War II) 

      Lewis, J. M. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      Out of the nearly 6000 U.S. military officers who were trained to be weather forecasters during World War II, there wore approximately 100 women. They were recruited into the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service ...

    • Mission to Planet Earth: Role of Clouds and Radiation in Climate 

      Wielicki, Bruce A.; Harrison, Edwin F.; Cess, Robert D.; King, Michael D.; Randall, David A. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      The role of clouds in modifying the earth's radiation balance is well recognized as a key uncertainty in predicting any potential future climate change. This statement is true whether the climate change of interest is ...

    • Using Spectral Moment Data from NOAA's 404-MHz Radar Wind Profilers to Observe Precipitation 

      Ralph, F. M.; Neiman, P. J.; van de Kamp, D. W.; Law, D. C. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      A brief description is given of NOAA's 404-MHz WindProfiler Demonstration Network (WPDN), including the radarconfiguration, sampling strategy, site locations andcharacteristics, and a discussion of the Doppler power ...

    • A Comprehensive Aerological Reference Data Set (CARDS): Rough and Systematic Errors 

      Eskridge, Robert E.; Alduchov, Oleg A.; Chernykh, Irina V.; Panmao, Zhai; Polansky, Arthur C.; Doty, Stephen R. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      The possibility of anthropogenic climate change and the possible problems associated with it are of great interest. However, one cannot study climate change without climate data. The Comprehensive Aerological Reference ...

    • The West Coast Picket Fence Experiment during STORM-FEST 

      Hirschberg, Paul A.; Lind, Richard J.; Bolduc, Steven J.; Eisberry, Russell L. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      Mesoscale weather systems that develop in the central United States are often forced by environmental features that have formed far upstream over the conventional data-sparse Pacific Ocean. Although remotely sensed ...

    • Fallout of Debris from Tornadic Thunderstorms: A Historical Perspective and Two Examples from VORTEX 

      Snow, John T.; Wyatt, Amy Lee; McCarthy, Ann K.; Bishop, Eric K. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      Preliminary results of an investigation of debris lofted by tornadoes, its long-distance transport by thunderstorms, and its subsequent fallout are reported. The authors begin with a review of historical accounts, including ...

    • Model-Driven, Assertion-Based Generation of Multimedia Weather Information 

      Kerpedjiev, Stephan (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      As gridded forecasts are becoming a common source of weather data, efforts are being made to automatically produce displays for various categories of decision makers such as emergency managers and road traffic officers. ...

    • Enhancement of Cumulus Clouds over Deforested Lands in Amazonia 

      Cutrim, Elen; Martin, David W.; Rabin, Robert (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      A survey of shallow (fair weather) cumulus clouds over part of Amazonia yields evidence of enhanced frequency where the forest had been cleared. The survey covers one dry-season month from 1988. It employs a threshold ...

    • A Spatial Resampling Perspective on the Depiction of Global Air Temperature Anomalies 

      Robeson, Scott M. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      Networks of near-surface climate stations often produce samples of air temperature that are spatially uneven and sparse. Spatial samples of air temperature, as a result, affect both the regional depiction of air temperature ...

    • Past and Present Precipitations Related to Climate Changes—Methodologies and Perspectives 

      Desbois, Michel; Désalmand, Françoise (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      A summary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Advanced Research Workshop Global Precipitations and Climate Change that reviewed the current understanding of global precipitation distribution, as related to climate ...