Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • The Field Project CLEOPATRA, MAY–July 1992 in Southern Germany 

      Meischner, P. F.; Hagen, M.; Hauf, T.; Heimann, D.; Höller, H.; Schumann, U.; Jaeschke, W.; Mauser, W.; Pruppacher, H. R. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      CLEOPATRA (Cloud Experiment Oberpfaffenhofen and Transports) is described. This field program was performed in southern Germany 50 km north of the Alpine foothills, an area of known enhanced thunderstorm activity. The ...

    • An Unmanned Aircraft for Dropwindsonde Deployment and Hurricane Reconnaissance 

      Langford, John S.; Emanuel, Kerry A. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      The prototype of a remotely piloted aircraft designed for research and operational reconnaissance of tropical cyclones has been developed and successfully test flown. Using modern aerodynamic and materials technology, the ...

    • Large-Scale Dynamics and Global Warming 

      Held, Isaac M. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      Predictions of future climate change raise a variety of issues in large-scale atmospheric and oceanic dynamics. Several of these are reviewed in this essay, including the sensitivity of the circulation of the Atlantic Ocean ...

    • Corrigendum to “Nonlinear Prediction, Chaos, and Noise” 

      Elsner, J. B.; Tsonis, A. A. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      Correction to Volume 73, Issue 1, Article 49.

    • A Meteorological Experiment in the Melting Zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet 

      Oerlemans, J.; Vugts, H. F. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      Preliminary results are described from a glaciometeorological experiment carried out in the margin (melting zone) of the Greenland ice sheet in the summers of 1990 and 1991. This work was initiated within the framework of ...

    • Recent Maximum Temperature Anomalies at Albany, New York: Fact or Fiction 

      Kessler, Ronald W.; Bosart, Lance F.; Gaza, Robert S. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      An analysis has been conducted of a suspected daily maximum temperature (DMT) bias introduced by the replacement of the National Weather Service (NWS) HO-63 bygrothermograph with a modernized HO-83 instrument at Albany, ...

    • Scientific Investigations Planned for the Lidar In-Space Technology Experiment (LITE) 

      McCormick, M. P.; Winker, D. M.; Browell, E. V.; Coakley, J. A.; Gardner, C. S.; Hoff, R. M.; Kent, G. S.; Melfi, S. H.; Menzies, R. T.; Platt, C. M. R.; Randall, D. A.; Reagan, J. A. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      The Lidar In-Space Technology Experiment (LITE) is being developed by NASA/Langley Research Center for a series of flights on the space shuttle beginning in 1994. Employing a three-wave-length Nd:YAG laser and a 1-m-diameter ...

    • Anomalous Cloud-to-Ground Lightning in an F5-Tornado-Producing Supercell Thunderstorm on 28 August 1990 

      Seimon, Anton (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      An F5 tornado that devastated Plainfield, Illinois, and environs on 28 August 1990, killing 29 people, is shown to be preduced by a thunderstorm characterized by highly anomalous could-to-ground (CG) lightning activity. ...

    • First Radar Echoes from Cumulus Clouds 

      Knight, Charles A.; Miller, L. J. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      In attempting to use centimeter-wavelength radars to investigate the early stage of precipitation formation in clouds, ?mantle echoes? are rediscovered and shown to come mostly from scattering by small-scale variations in ...

    • The Sub-bureau for Atmospheric Angular Momentum of the International Earth Rotation Service: A Meteorological Data Center with Geodetic Applications 

      Salstein, David A.; Rosen, Richard D.; Kann, Deirdre M.; Miller, Alvin J. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      By exchanging angular momentum with the solid portion of the earth, the atmosphere plays a vital role in exciting small but measurable changes in the rotation of our planet. Recognizing this relationship, the International ...

    • Recent Variations of Sea Ice and Air Temperature in High Latitudes 

      Chapman, William L.; Walsh, John E. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      Feedbacks resulting from the retreat of sea ice and snow contribute to the polar amplification of the greenhouse warming projected by global climate models. A gridded sea-ice database, for which the record length is now ...

    • The Importance of Short-Term Forecasting of Thunderstorms to Launch Operations at Cape Canaveral 

      Cooper, Harry J.; Smith, Eric A. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      The local meteorological events leading up to the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis on 2 August 1991 ware captured in full-resolution GOES visible data being archived for the Convection and Precipitation/Electrification ...

    • Extended-Range Atmospheric Prediction and the Lorenz Model 

      Palmer, T. N. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      The physical basis for extended-range prediction is explored using the famous three-component Lorenz convection model, taken as a conceptual representation of the chaotic extratropical circulation, and extended by coupling ...

    • Sensitivity of Runoff to Climate Change: A Hortonian Approach 

      Dooge, James C. I. (American Meteorological Society, 1992)
      This Horton Memorial Lecture reviews the approach of Robert Horton (1875?1945) to key problems in hydrology, meteorology, and geography and then speculates on how Horton might today approach the problem of analyzing the ...

    • Atlas of Point Correlations at 30 mb and between 500 and 30 mb 

      van Loon, H.; Shea, D. J. (American Meteorological Society, 1992)
      No abstract available.

    • How Agribusiness Uses Climate Predictions: Implications for Climate Research and Provision of Predictions 

      Sonka, S. T.; Hofing, S. L.; Changnon, S. A. (American Meteorological Society, 1992)
      The paper presents an analysis of climate prediction needs and uses within six important subsegments of the agribusiness sector. Results are based on a mail survey of 114 managers. Although nearly 70% of the respondents ...

    • Autonomous Aerosondes for Economical Atmospheric Soundings Anywhere on the Globe 

      Holland, Greg J.; McGeer, Tad; Youngren, Harold (American Meteorological Society, 1992)
      Considerable interest in the use of autonomous aircraft for atmospheric measurements in remote and hazardous areas world-wide has arisen over recent years. Their application in tropical cyclone reconnaissance is under study ...

    • Preparing for the AMSU 

      Diak, George R.; Kim, Dongsoo; Whipple, Mark S.; Wu, Xiaohua (American Meteorological Society, 1992)
      The Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) is a 20-channel microwave satellite remote-sensing system comprising two separate radiometers, which is slated to be launched on NOAA polar-orbiting satellites beginning in 1994. ...

    • Use of the CSU–CHILL Radar in Radar Meteorology Education at Colorado State University 

      Rutledge, Steven A.; Kennedy, Patrick C.; Brunkow, David A. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      A recent example illustrating the use of the CSU?CHILL Doppler radar in a graduate-level course in radar meteorology at Colorado State University (CSU) is described. In addition to providing students in the Department of ...

    • Wind Forecasting for Yacht Racing at the 1991 Pan American Games 

      Powell, Mark D. (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
      The U.S. Sailing Team competed successfully at the 1991 Pan American Games despite having no previous experience with the sailing conditions off Havana, Cuba. One of the key factors in the team's success was meteorological ...