Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • The Project for Intercomparison of Land Surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS): Phases 2 and 3 

      Henderson-Sellers, A.; Pitman, A. J.; Love, P. K.; Irannejad, P.; Chen, T. H. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      The World Climate Research Programme Project for Intercomparison of Land Surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS) is moving into its second and third phases that will exploit observational data and consider the performance ...

    • Meteorological Support to the Earthwinds Transglobal Balloon Project 

      Wetzel, Melanie; Borys, Randolph; Lowenthal, Douglas; Brown, Stephen (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      The collocation of the Weather Forecast Office and the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada, has fostered a National Weather Service (NWS)?University collaborative effort that provided meteorological forecasting and ...

    • TOGA COARE Aircraft Mission Summary Images: An Electronic Atlas 

      Yuter, S. E.; Houze, R. A.; Brodzik, S. R.; Smull, B. F.; Daugherty, J. R.; Marks, F. D. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      An electronic atlas of research aircraft missions in TOGA COARE (Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment) has been prepared and is available on the Internet via World Wide Web browsers ...

    • Prospects and Limitations of Seasonal Atmospheric GCM Predictions 

      Kumar, Arun; Hoerling, Martin P. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      Climate simulations and hindcast experiments of increasingly large ensemble size are being performed to determine the predictive capability of atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs) on seasonal or longer time scales. ...

    • TOGA COARE Satellite Data Summaries Available on the World Wide Web 

      Chen, S. S.; Houze, R. A.; Brodzik, S. R.; Yuter, S. E.; Mapes, B. E. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      Satellite data summary images and analysis plots from the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA COARE), which were initially prepared in the field at the Honiara Operations ...

    • State Roles in the Global Climate Change Issue 

      Changnon, Stanley A. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      Events in 1988 helped focus the attention of several states on the global climate change issue. Consequently, the National Governors? Association conducted an assessment in 1989 and recommended various actions. By 1994, ...

    • Impact of the Ongoing Amazonian Deforestation on Local Precipitation: A GCM Simulation Study 

      Walker, G. K.; Sud, Y. C.; Atlas, R. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      Numerical simulation experiments were conducted to delineate the influence of in situ deforestation data on episodic rainfall by comparing two ensembles of five 5-day integrations performed with a recent version of the ...

    • Sea Surface Winds—A Critical Input to Oceanic Models, but Are They Accurately Measured? 

      Wu, Jin (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      Wind, driving oceans, and the links between them to the atmosphere compose a critical parameter for the world circulation model as well as for the evaluation of climate changes. Traditionally, wind velocities have been ...

    • LeRoy Meisinger, Part I: Biographical Tribute with an Assessment of His Contributions to Meteorology 

      Lewis, John M. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      LeRoy Meisinger was a U.S. Weather Bureau meteorologist and aeronaut who worked vigorously to bring meteorology to the aid of aviation in the post-World War 1 period. He was killed at the age of 29 in a scientific ballooning ...

    • Overview of the 12–14 March 1993 Superstorm 

      Kocin, Paul J.; Schumacher, Philip N.; Morales, Ronald F.; Uccellini, Louis W. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      An extratropical cyclone of unusual intensity and areal extent affected much of the Gulf and East Coasts of the United States on 12?14 March 1993. In this paper, the many effects of the storm will be highlighted, including ...

    • The Daytona Beach Wave of 3–4 July 1992: A Shallow-Water Gravity Wave Forced by a Propagating Squall Line 

      Churchill, Dean D.; Houston, Sam H.; Bond, Nicholas A. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      An unexpected run-up of the ocean along Daytona Beach, Florida, on 3?4 July 1992 was associated with at least one large ocean wave. The wave, which reached a height of about 3 m above normal tide, injured 75 people and ...

    • Forecasting the 12–14 March 1993 Superstorm 

      Uccellini, Louis W.; Kocin, Paul J.; Schneider, Russell S.; Stokols, Paul M.; Dorr, Russell A. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      This paper describes the decision-making process used by the forecasters in the National Meteorological Center's Meteorological Operations Division and in Weather Forecast Offices of the National Weather Service to provide ...

    • LeRoy Meisinger, Part II: Analysis of the Scientific Ballooning Accident of 2 June 1924 

      Lewis, John M.; Moore, Charles B. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      During the spring of 1924, U.S. Weather Bureau meteorologist LeRoy Meisinger conducted a series of experiments with a free balloon to determine the trajectories of air around extratropical cyclones. The 10th flight in the ...

    • The 12–14 March 1993 Superstorm: Performance of the NMC Global Medium-Range Model 

      Caplan, Peter M. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      The performance of the NMC Global Medium-Range Model in forecasting the March 1993 ?superstorm? at various lead times is assessed. The forecasts of mean sea level pressure, 1000?500-mb thickness, 500-mb geopotential height ...

    • Environmental Phenomena of the Beaufort Sea Observed during the Leads Experiment 

      Fett, Robert W.; Burk, Stephen D.; Thompson, William T.; Kozo, Thomas L. (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      This paper describes unique environmental phenomena observed during LEADEX (Leads Experiment), a multidisciplinary investigation staged from an ice camp in the Beaufort Sea during March and April 1992. The paper focuses ...

    • The Volunteer Observing Ship and Future Ocean Monitoring 

      Rossby, Thomas; Siedler, Gerold; Zenk, Walter (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
      Widespread and sustained in situ ocean measurements are essential to an improved understanding of the state of the ocean and its role in global change. Merchant marine vessels can play a major role in ocean monitoring, yet ...

    • Identification of Aviation Weather Hazards Based on the Integration of Radar and Lightning Data 

      Stern, Andrew D.; Brady, Raymond H.; Moore, Patrick D.; Carter, Gary M. (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      The National Weather Service Eastern Region is carrying out a national risk-reduction exercise at the Baltimore-Washington Forecast Office in Sterling, Virginia. The primary objective of this project is to integrate ...

    • A Comparison of ERBE and AVHRR Longwave Flux Estimates 

      Gruber, Arnold; Ellingson, Robert; Ardanuy, Philip; Weiss, Mitchell; Yang, S. K.; Oh, Sung Nam (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      Comparisons have been made between estimates of the outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) at the top of the atmosphere derived from narrowband Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) and broadband Earth Radiation ...

    • The NOAA-National Geographic Society Waterspout Expedition (1993) 

      Golden, Joseph H.; Bluestein, Howard B. (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      This paper describes afield program conducted by NOAA and the National Geographic Society in late August 1993 near Key West, Florida. The mission of the expedition was to obtain close-up photographic documentation of ...

    • UHF Wind Profilers: A New Tool for Diagnosing Tropical Convective Cloud Systems 

      Gage, K. S.; Williams, C. R.; Ecklund, W. L. (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      Uncertainty in the magnitude and distribution of diabatic heating associated with precipitating cloud systems is one of the major factors giving rise to uncertainty in the simulation of large-scale atmospheric circulations ...