Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • The Boreal Ecosystem–Atmosphere Study (BOREAS): An Overview and Early Results from the 1994 Field Year 

      Sellers, Piers; Hall, Forrest; Ranson, K. Jon; Margolis, Hank; Kelly, Bob; Baldocchi, Dennis; den Hartog, Gerry; Cihlar, Josef; Ryan, Michael G.; Goodison, Barry; Crill, Patrick; Lettenmaier, Dennis; Wickland, Diane E. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      The Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) is large-scale international field experiment that has the goal of improving our understanding of the exchanges of radiative energy, heat water, CO2, and trace gases between ...

    • Monthly Mean Large-Scale Analyses of Upper-Tropospheric Humidity and Wind Field Divergence Derived from Three Geostationary Satellites 

      Schmetz, Johannes; Menzel, W. Paul; Hyden, Christopher; Velden, Christopher; Wu, Xiangqian; Nieman, Steve; van de Berg, Leo; Holmlund, Kenneth; Geijo, Carlos (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      This paper describes the results from a collaborative study between the European Space Operations Center, the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

    • Frequencies and Characteristics of Global Oceanic Precipitation from Shipboard Present-Weather Reports 

      Petty, Grant W. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      Ship reports of present weather obtained from the Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set are analyzed for the period 1958?91 in order to elucidate regional and seasonal variations in the climatological frequency, phase. ...

    • Storm-Induced Wind Patterns on the Sea from spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar 

      Atlas, David; Iguchi, Toshio; Pierce, Harold F. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      The authors discuss the origin of a unique footprint on the sea induced by storm winds and rainfall as seen by synthetic aperture radar (SAR) from space. Two hypotheses are presented to explain the origin of an apparent ...

    • The Enhanced NOAA Global Land Dataset from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer 

      Gutman, Garik; Tarpley, Dan; Ignatov, Aleksandr; Olson, Steve (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      Global mapped data of reflected radiation in the visible (0.63 ?m) and near-infrared (0.85 ?m) wavebands of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) onboard National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

    • Improved Model Output Statistics Forecasts through Model Consensus 

      Vislocky, Robert L.; Fritsch, J. Michael (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      Consensus forecasts are computed by averaging model output statistics (MOS) forecasts based on the limited-area fine-mesh (LFM) model and the nested grid model (NGM) for the three-year period 1990?92. The test consists of ...

    • Interacting “Morning Glories” over Northern Australia 

      Reeder, Michael J.; Grimshaw, Roger; Christie, Douglas R.; Smith, Roger K. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      It is just over 15 years since the first major expedition was organized to investigate the ?morning glory? phenomenon of north-eastern Australia. The authors review briefly what has been learned about the generation and ...

    • The Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment—ASTEX 

      Albrecht, Bruce A.; Bretherton, Christopher S.; Johnson, Doug; Scubert, Wayne H.; Frisch, A. Shelby (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      The Atlantic Stratocumulus Experiment (ASTEX) was conducted over the northeast Atlantic Ocean during June 1992 with substantial international collaboration. The main goal of ASTEX was to study the climatologically important ...

    • First Global WCRP Shortwave Surface Radiation Budget Dataset 

      Whitlock, C. H.; Charlock, T. P.; Staylor, W. F.; Pinker, R. T.; Laszlo, I.; Ohmura, A.; Gilgen, H.; Konzelman, T.; DiPasquale, R. C.; Moats, C. D.; LeCroy, S. R.; Ritchey, N. A. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      Shartwave radiative fluxes that reach the earth's surface are key factors that influence atmospheric and oceanic circulations as well as surface climate. Yet, information on these fluxes is meager. Surface site data are ...

    • Remote Sensing of Flooding in the U.S. Upper Midwest during the Summer of 1993 

      Gumley, Liam E.; King, Michael D. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      The U.S. upper Midwest was subjected to severe flooding during the summer of 1993. Heavy rainfall in the Mississippi River basin from April through July caused flooding of many Midwest rivers, including the Mississippi, ...

    • On-line Access to Weather Satellite Imagery and Image Manipulation Software 

      Emery, W.; Kelley, T.; Dozier, J.; Rotar, P. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite imagery, received by antennas located at the University of Colorado, are made available to the Internet users through an on-line ...

    • Satellite Observations of Upper-Layer Variabilities in the Western Pacific Warm Pool 

      Ho, Chung-Ru; Yan, Xiao-Hai; Zheng, Quanan (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      The variabilities of the upper layer of the western Pacific warm pool (WPWP) were observed using satellite infrared data from 1982 to 1991 and altimeter data from November 1986 to September 1989. The warm pool was defined ...

    • Atmospheric Circulation Associated with the Midwest Floods of 1993 

      Bell, Gerald D.; Janowiak, John E. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      This paper presents an observational analysis of the large-scale atmospheric circulation prior to and during the Midwest floods of June?July 1993. The floods developed and persisted in association with three major circulation ...

    • Uses and Applications of Climate Forecasts for Power Utilities 

      Changnon, Stanley A.; Changnon, Joyce M.; Changnon, David (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      The uses and potential applications of climate forecasts for electric and gas utilities were assessed 1) to discern needs for improving climate forecasts and guiding future research, and 2) to assist utilities in making ...

    • A Pilot Reanalysis Project at COLA 

      Paolino, D. A.; Yang, Q.; Doty, B.; Kinter, J. L.; Shukla, J.; Straus, David M. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      Results are presented from a retrospective analysis of 19 months (May 1982?November 1983) of global atmospheric observations. The National Meteorological Center Global Data Assimilation System was used in tandem with the ...

    • Lidar-Measured Winds from Space: A Key Component for Weather and Climate Prediction 

      Baker, Wayman E.; Emmitt, George D.; Robertson, Franklin; Atlas, Robert M.; Molinari, John E.; Bowdle, David A.; Paegle, Jan; Hardesty, R. Michael; Post, Madison J.; Menzies, Robert T.; Krishnamurti, T. N.; Brown, Robert A.; Anderson, John R.; Lorenc, Andrew C.; McElroy, James (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      The deployment of a space-based Doppler lidar would provide information that is fundamental to advancing the understanding and prediction of weather and climate. This paper reviews the concepts of wind measurement by Doppler ...

    • A Case for Detailed Surface Analysis 

      Sanders, Frederick; Doswell, Charles A. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      Detailed analysis of the temperature and moisture fields based on routine hourly surface observations in North America can provide a rational basis for surface feature analysis, thus clarifying the present confusion. ...

    • An Overview of the Mobile Profiler System: Preliminary Results from Field Tests during the Los Angeles Free-Radical Study 

      Wolfe, Daniel; Weber, Bob; Wuertz, David; Welsh, David; Merritt, David; King, Sandy; Fritz, Richard; Moran, Ken; Simon, Melinda; Simon, Anthony; Cogan, James; Littell, De Witt; Measure, Edward (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      The System Demonstration and Integration Division of the Environmental Technology Laboratory and the Battlefield Environment Directorate of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have designed and built the Mobile Profiler ...

    • Droughts of the Late 1980s in the United States as Derived from NOAA Polar-Orbiting Satellite Data 

      Kogan, Felix N. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      Drought is one of the most adverse and powerful weather-related disasters that occur every year across a portion of the United States. The consequences of droughts quite often can be devastating. To mitigate these consequences, ...

    • The Second-Moment Climatology of the GATE Rain Rate Data 

      Polyak, Ilya; North, Gerald (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      The first part of this paper presents the description of the GARP (Global Atmospheric Research Program) Atlantic Tropical Experiment 1 rain-rate data and its two-dimensional spectral and correlation characteristics, which ...