Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions
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National Weather Service Warning Performance Based on the WSR-88D
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)The National Weather Service (NWS) began operational use of the Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) system in March 1991 at Norman, Oklahoma. WSR-88D data have been available to forecasters at five additional ... -
The Accuracy of United States Precipitation Data
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)Precipitation measurements in the United States (as well as all other countries) are adversely affected by the gauge undercatch bias of point precipitation measurements. When these measurements are used to obtain areas ... -
Fog on the U.S. West Coast: A Review
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)Weather forecasts and warnings are the most important services provided by the meteorological profession. The effective development of forecasting methods rests upon comprehensive knowledge of the phenomena to be forecast. ... -
Cal Tech's Program in Meteorology: 1933–1948
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)The California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech) established a course of study in meteorology in 1933. It was intimately tied to the upsurge of activity in commercial and military aviation that occurred in the period ... -
Time Series Models Adoptable for Forecasting Nile Floods and Ethiopian Rainfalls
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)Long-term rainfall forecasting is used in making economic and agricultural decisions in many countries. It may also be a tool in minimizing the devastation resulting from recurrent droughts. To be able to forecast the total ... -
Damage Survey of Hurricane Andrew and Its Relationship to the Eyewall
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)A damage map documenting Hurricane Andrew's destructive land fall over southern Florida is presented. Vectors that represent the direction of winds causing damage to trees and structures are shown along with an F-scale ... -
The Modernization and Associated Restructuring of the National Weather Service: An Overview
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)The scientific understanding of the atmosphere and the ability to forecast large-and small-scale hydrometeorological phenomena have increased dramatically over the last two decades. As a result, the National Oceanic and ... -
The Atmospheric Electricity Paradigm
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)Remarkable aspects of the thundercloud are its intense electrification, precipitation, and convection. A satisfactory understanding of how a thunderstorm works will require a continuing series of investigations to explore ... -
Winds over Japan
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)Before World War II, weather forecasters had little knowledge of upper-air wind patterns above 20000 feet. Data were seldom avai able at these heights, and the need was not great because commercial aircraft seldom flew at ... -
High-Resolution Satellite Imagery for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)In this article high-resolution satellite imagery from a variety of meteorological and environmental satellites is compared. Digital datasets from Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), National Oceanic ... -
Geological Assessment of the Greenhouse Effect
(American Meteorological Society, 1993)Geologic studies provide a valuable perspective on the importance of greenhouse forcing for climate change. On both Pleistocene and tectonic time scales, changes in climate are positively correlated with greenhouse gas ... -
A Computer-based Atlas of Global Instrumental Climate Data
(American Meteorological Society, 1994)Color-shaded and contoured images of global gridded instrumental data have been produced as a computer-based atlas, available to the climate community through Internet. Each image simultaneously depicts anomaly maps of ... -
Two Types of Vertical Electrical Structures in Stratiform Precipitation Regions of Mesoscale Convective Systems
(American Meteorological Society, 1993)Electric field (E) soundings in the stratiform regions and transition zones of mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) are reported. Most of the E soundings were made during the 1991 Cooperative Oklahoma Profiler Studies ... -
Airship Measurements of Aerosol Size Distributions, Cloud Droplet Spectra, and Trace Gas Concentrations in the Marine Boundary Layer
(American Meteorological Society, 1993)The use of an airship as a platform to conduct atmospheric chemistry, aerosol, and cloud microphysical research is described, and results from demonstration flights made off the Oregon coast are presented. The slow speed ... -
Green Thunderstorms
(American Meteorological Society, 1993)Green thunderstorms are observed occasionally, yet with one exception they have received no scientific attention, experimental or theoretical. Fraser suggested that thunderstorms themselves are not green but that a thick ... -
Ensemble Forecasting at NMC: The Generation of Perturbations
(American Meteorological Society, 1993)On 7 December 1992, The National Meteorological Center (NMC) started operational ensemble forecasting. The ensemble forecast configuration implemented provides 14 independent forecasts every day verifying on days 1?10. In ... -
Atmospheric Release Advisory Capability: Real-Time Modeling of Airborne Hazardous Materials
(American Meteorological Society, 1993)The Atmospheric Release Advisory Capability (ARAC) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a centralized federal project for assessing atmospheric releases of hazardous materials in real time. Since ARAC began making ... -
Is the Coriolis Force Really Responsible for the Inertial Oscillation?
(American Meteorological Society, 1993)It is demonstrated that the inertial oscillation is not produced exclusively by ?inertial forces?, and that the inertial oscillation appears as oscillatory motion even when viewed from a nonrotating frame of reference. The ... -
An Assimilated Dataset for Earth Science Applications
(American Meteorological Society, 1993)The Data Assimilation Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is currently producing a multiyear gridded global atmospheric dataset for use in climate research, including tropospheric chemistry applications. The data, ... -
The Underreporting of Lightning injuries and Deaths in Colorado
(American Meteorological Society, 1993)Reliable statistics on lightning deaths and injuries are needed to raise the awareness of the community to the lightning threat and to educate the public to avoid situations vulnerable to lightning injuries. The principal ...