Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Effects of Conversion Algorithms on Reported Upper-Air Dewpoint Depressions 

      Elliott, William P.; Gaffen, Dian J. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      Different nations use different algorithms or other techniques to convert temperatures and relative humidities from radiosonde observations to dewpoint depressions. Thus, it is possible for identical measured values to ...

    • The Nimbus Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) Experiment: 1975 to 1992 

      Kyle, H. L.; Arking, A.; Hickey, J. R.; Ardanuy, P. E.; Jacobowitz, H.; Stowe, L. L.; Campbell, G. G.; Vonder Haar, T.; House, F. B.; Maschhoff, R.; Smith, G. L. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      Three spectrally broadband measurement sets are presently being used for earth radiation budget (ERB) studies. These are the Nimbus-6 ERB (July 1975 to June 1978), the Nimbus-7 ERB (November 1978 to the present), and the ...

    • A New Perspective on Recent Global Warming: Asymmetric Trends of Daily Maximum and Minimum Temperature 

      Karl, Thomas R.; Knight, Richard W.; Gallo, Kevin P.; Peterson, Thomas C.; Jones, Philip D.; Kukla, George; Plummer, Neil; Razuvayev, Vyacheslav; Lindseay, Janette; Charlson, Robert J. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      Monthly mean maximum and minimum temperatures for over 50% (10%) of the Northern (Southern) Hemisphere landmass, accounting for 37% of the global landmass, indicate that the rise of the minimum temperature has occurred at ...

    • Meteorological Assessment of Homer's Odyssey 

      Cerveny, Randall S. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      A chronology of the meteorological events described by Homer in the Odyssey following the Achæans? conquest of Troy (ca. 1200 B.C.) is developed. Application of polar front theory to the voyages of six separate fleets as ...

    • Flat Organizations for Earth Science 

      Ausubel, Jesse H.; Steele, John H. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      The institutions that made American science famous figure less and less in the leadership and management of American science. Causes for this decline, especially evident in ocean and atmospheric sciences, include large ...

    • Old Mountain Meteorological Station Milesovka (Donnersberg) in Central Europe 

      Stekl, Josef; Podzimek, Josef (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      The foundation of the old mountain meteorological station Milesovka (Donnersberg) in western Bohemia and its operation since 1904 is described with special reference to its unique location in central Europe. The data ...

    • Intercomparison of Observed Cloud Radiative Forcing: A Zonal and Global Perspective 

      Sohn, Byung-Ju; Robertson, Franklin R. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      Despite the general agreement that clouds cool the earth-atmosphere, there are substantial differences in estimated magnitudes of the annual global mean of cloud radiative forcing. Recent estimates of globally averaged net ...

    • Recording, Archiving, and Using WSR-88D Data 

      Crum, Timothy D.; Alberty, Ron L.; Burgess, Donald W. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      In order to support NEXRAD program requirements, WSR-88D systems have the capability to record data and products at four levels. Of these, level II (base data) and level III (products) will be most commonly available for ...

    • Collaborative Research Activities between National Weather Service Operational Offices and Universities 

      Auciello, Eugene P.; Lavoie, Ronald L. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      The modernization of the National Weather Service (NWS) will provide new datasets along with advanced technological capabilities that will enhance our understanding of meteorological and hydrological processes. Improved ...

    • Wind Measurement and Archival under the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS): User Concerns and Opportunity for Improvement 

      Powell, Mark D. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      The National Weather Service, as a part of its modernization effort, is implementing the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS). Much discussion has occurred about various aspects of ASOS versus the current system of ...

    • Evaluation of NMC Upper-Stratospheric Temperature Analyses Using Rocketsonde and Lidar Data 

      Finger, F. G.; Gelman, M. E.; Miller, A. J.; Wild, J. D.; Chanin, M. L.; Hauchecorne, A. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      Daily NMC analyses, constructed from operational TOVS data since 1978, are used to monitor behavior of middle atmospheric temperature. Capability of the upper-stratospheric analyses (5, 2, 1, and 0.4 mb) to provide temporally ...

    • Chaos Theory and Its Applications to the Atmosphere 

      Zeng, Xubin; Pielke, Roger A.; Eykholt, R. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      A brief overview of chaos theory is presented, including bifurcations, routes to turbulence, and methods for characterizing chaos. The paper divides chaos applications in atmospheric sciences into three categories: new ...

    • Impact of Network Wind Profiler Data on a 3-h Data Assimilation System 

      Smith, Tracy Lorraine; Benjamin, Stanley G. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      This paper examines the influence of data from the NOAA Wind Profiler Demonstration Network on a mesoscale data assimilation system. The Mesoscale Analysis and Prediction System is a 3-h intermittent data assimilation ...

    • Great Historical Events That Were Significantly Affected by the Weather. Part 11: Meteorological Aspects of the Battle of Waterloo 

      Neumann, J. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      The Waterloo Campaign extended from 15 to 18 June 1815, with the decisive Battle of Waterloo taking place on the 18th. The campaign involved the ?Army of the North? of Napoleon on the one hand, and the Anglo-Dutch and ...

    • An Evaluation of Wind Profiler, RASS, and Microwave Radiometer Performance 

      Martner, B. E.; Wuertz, D. B.; Stankov, B. B.; Strauch, R. G.; Westwater, E. R.; Gage, K. S.; Ecklund, W. L.; Martin, C. L.; Dabberdt, W. F. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      Several ground-based remote Sensors were operated together in Colorado during February and March 1991 to obtain continuous profiles of the kinematic and thermodynamic structure of the atmosphere. Instrument performance is ...

    • Three Years of Rainfall over the Indian Ocean 

      Martin, David W.; Hinton, Barry B.; Auvine, Brian A. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      Monthly rain failing on the Indian Ocean is mapped for the period 1979 through 1981 by means of observations of the Nimbus-7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer. Both stationary and mobile parts were found in the ...

    • Design and Implementation of a Prototype Data System for Earth Radiation Budget, Cloud, Aerosol, and Chemistry Data 

      Baum, Bryan A.; Barkstrom, Bruce R. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      The Earth Observing System (EOS) will collect data from a large number of satellite-borne instruments, beginning later in this decade. To make data accessible to the scientific community, NASA will build an EOS Data and ...

    • Research Applications of a Boundary-Layer Wind Profiler 

      Rogers, R. R.; Ethier, S. A.; Ecklund, W. L.; Carter, D. A.; Gage, K. S. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      A small UHF radar wind profiler was operated over a 40-day period during the summer of 1990 at a site on the windward coast of the island of Hawaii. It provided continuous measurements of winds up to the height of the ...

    • The GEWEX Cloud System Study (GCSS) 

      GEWEX Cloud System Science Team (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      The World Climate Research Programme's Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) addresses both the hydrological and meteorological components of the water cycle. One of the biggest challenges in GEWEX is to improve ...

    • Free Software and Information via Computer Network 

      Ahlquist, Jon (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      Through ?anonymous ftp? accounts accessible over the Internet computer network, one can obtain much free quality software, documentation, and information relevant to meteorology. A program named archie can locate sites ...