Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Large-Scale Aspects of the United States Hydrologic Cycle 

      Roads, John O.; Chen, Shyh-C.; Guetter, Alexander K.; Georgakakos, Konstantine P. (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      A large-scale, gridpoint, atmospheric, hydrologic climatology consisting of atmospheric precipitable water, precipitation, atmospheric moisture flux convergence, and a residual evaporation for the conterminous United States ...

    • Evidence of an Agricultural Heat Island in the Lower Mississippi River Floodplain 

      Raymond, William H.; Rabin, Robert M.; Wade, Gary S. (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      The Mississippi River floodplain in the states of Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana presents a readily discernible feature in weather satellite images. This floodplain appears in the spring and early summer ...

    • Some Noteworthy Aspects of the Hesston, Kansas, Tornado Family of 13 March 1990 

      Davies, Jonathan M.; Doswell, Charles A.; Burgess, Donald W.; Weaver, John F. (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      This paper considers a tornadic storm that struck south-central and eastern Kansas on 13 March 1 990. Most of the devastation was associated with the first tornado from the storm as it passed through Hession, Kansas. From ...

    • Raman Lidar Profiling of Atmospheric Water Vapor: Simultaneous Measurements with Two Collocated Systems 

      Goldsmith, J. E. M.; Bisson, Scott E.; Ferrare, Richard A.; Evans, Keith D.; Whiteman, David N.; Melfi, S. H. (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      Raman lidar is a loading candidate for providing the detailed space-and time-resolved measurements of water vapor needed by a variety of atmospheric studies. Simultaneous measurements of atmospheric watervapor are described ...

    • Vector Winds from a Single-Transmitter Bistatic Dual-Doppler Radar Network 

      Wurman, Joshua (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      A bistatic dual-Doppler weather radar network consisting of only one transmitter and a nontransmitting, nonscanning, low-cost bistatic receiver was deployed in the Boulder, Colorado, area during 1993. The Boulder network ...

    • Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment: VORTEX 

      Rasmussen, Erik N.; Straka, Jerry M.; Davies-Jones, Robert; Doswell, Charles A.; Carr, Frederick H.; Eilts, Michael D.; MacGorman, Donald R. (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      This paper describes the Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment planned for 1994 and 1995 to evaluate a set of hypotheses pertaining to tornadogenesis and tornado dynamics. Observations of state ...

    • Regional Rainfall Climatologies Derived from Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) Data 

      Negri, Andrew J.; Adler, Robert F.; Nelkin, Eric J.; Huffman, George J. (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      Climatologies of convective precipitation were derived from passive microwave observations from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager using a scattering-based algorithm of Adler et al. Data were aggregated over periods of ...

    • Data Assimilation and Model Evaluation Experiment Datasets 

      Lai, Chung-Chieng A.; Qian, Wen; Glenn, Scott M. (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      The Institute for Naval Oceanography, in cooperation with Naval Research Laboratories and universities, executed the Data Assimilation and Model Evaluation Experiment (DAMÉE) for the Gulf Stream region during fiscal years ...

    • Zeb: Software for Integration, Display and Management of Diverse Environmental Datasets 

      Corbet, Jonathan; Mueller, Cynthia; Burghart, Chris; Gould, Kristine; Granger, Gary (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      This paper describes the Zeb software for integration, display, and management of diverse environmental datasets. Zeb's primary use is for the superpositioning of observational datasets (such as those collected by satellite, ...

    • Introducing GOES-I: The First of a New Generation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites 

      Menzel, W. Paul; Purdom, James F. W. (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      In the spring of 1994, the first of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) next generation of geostationary satellites, GOES-I, is scheduled for launch. The introduction of this major component of ...

    • Climatic Aspects of the 1993 Upper Mississippi River Basin Flood 

      Kunkel, Kenneth E.; Changnon, Stanley A.; Angel, James R. (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      The 1993 record-breaking summer flood in the Upper Mississippi River Basin resulted from an unprecedentedly persistent heavy rain pattern. Rainfall totals for the Upper Mississippi River Basin were, by a large margin, the ...

    • Initialization of Soil-Water Content in Regional-Scale Atmospheric Prediction Models 

      Smith, Christopher B.; Lakhtakia, Mercedes N.; Capehart, William J.; Carlson, Toby N. (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the feasibility of determining the soil-water content fields required as initial conditions for land surface components within atmospheric prediction models. This is done using ...

    • Detecting Climate Change Concurrent with Deforestation in the Amazon Basin: Which Way Has It Gone? 

      Chu, Pao-Shin; Yu, Zhi-Ping; Hastenrath, Stefan (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      To detect climate change in the Amazon Basin, as possibly induced by deforestation, time series of monthly mean outgoing longwave radiation (OLR), an index of tropical convection, and monthly rainfall totals at Belém Manaus ...

    • Quantifying and Minimizing Uncertainty of Climate Forcing by Anthropogenic Aerosols 

      Penner, J. E.; Charlson, R. J.; Schwartz, S. E.; Hales, J. M.; Laulainen, N. S.; Travis, L.; Leifer, R.; Novakov, T.; Ogren, J.; Radke, L. F. (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      Anthropogenic aerosols are composed of a variety of aerosol types and components including water-soluble inorganic species (e.g., sulfate, nitrate, ammonium), condensed organic species, elemental or black carbon, and mineral ...

    • The National Centers for Environmental Prediction: Operational Climate, Ocean, and Weather Prediction for the 21st Century 

      McPherson, Ronald D. (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      The National Meteorological Center is being restructured to serve a broader mission, which includes operational climate and ocean prediction as well as short-range weather prediction. Its successor organization is called ...

    • REBAL '92—A Cooperative Radiation and Energy Balance Field Study for Imagery and Electromagnetic Propagation 

      Tunick, Arnold; Rachele, Henry; Hansen, Frank V.; Howell, Terry A.; Steiner, Jean L.; Schneider, Ariand D.; Evett, Steve R. (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      The surface energy balance directly affects vertical gradients in temperature and specific humidity within the atmospheric surface layer, and these gradients influence optical turbulence. This study was conducted to improve ...

    • The Global Precipitation Climatology Project: First Algorithm Intercomparison Project 

      Arkin, Phillip A.; Xie, Pingping (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) was established by the World Climate Research Programme to produce global analyses of area- and time-averaged precipitation for use in climate research. To achieve the ...

    • A Multiseason Climate Forecast System at the National Meteorological Center 

      Ji, Ming; Kumar, Arun; Leetmaa, Ants (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      The Coupled Model Project was established at the National Meteorological Center(NMC)in January l991 to develop a multiseason forecast system based on coupled ocean atmosphere general circulation models. This provided a ...

    • The Integrated Sounding System: Description and Preliminary Observations from TOGA COARE 

      Parsons, David; Dabberdt, Walter; Cole, Harold; Hock, Terrence; Martin, Charles; Barrett, Anne-Leslie; Miller, Erik; Spowart, Michael; Howard, Michael; Ecklund, Warner; Carter, David; Gage, Kenneth; Wilson, John (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      An Integrated Sounding System (ISS) that combines state-of- the-art remote and in situ sensors into a single transportable facility has been developed jointly by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the ...

    • Real-Time Mesoscale Prediction on workstations 

      Cotton, William R.; Thompson, Gregory; Mieike, Paul W. (American Meteorological Society, 1994)
      Experience in performing real-time mesoscale numerical prediction forecasts using the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) over Colorado for a winter season on high-performance workstations is summarized. Performance ...