Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions
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African Rainfall as a Precursor of Hurricane-Related Destruction on the U.S. East Coast
(American Meteorological Society, 1992)This paper describes a predictive relationship between West African rainfall and U.S. hurricane-spawned destruction, which is based on information for the 42-yr period 1949?90. It is shown that above-average rainfall during ... -
TOGA COARE: The Coupled Ocean—Atmosphere Response Experiment
(American Meteorological Society, 1992)Despite significant progress in the Tropical Ocean?Global Atmosphere (TOGA) program, a number of major hurdles remain before the primary objective, prediction of the variability of the coupled ocean?atmosphere system on ... -
Observing Precipitation through Dual-Polarization Radar Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 1992)Dual-polarization radar measurements of precipitation are primarily influenced by the size, shape, orientation, and phase of scattering hydrometeors. As a result, these measurements can serve as a tool for remote identification ... -
A Deterministic Approach to the Validation of Historical Daily Temperature and Precipitation Data from the Cooperative Network
(American Meteorological Society, 1992)It is widely known that the TD3200 (Summary of the Day Cooperative Network) database held by the National Climatic Data Center contains tens of thousands of erroneous daily values resulting from data-entry, data-recording, ... -
Inadvertent Weather Modification in Urban Areas: Lessons for Global Climate Change
(American Meteorological Society, 1992)Large metropolitan areas in North America, home to 65% of the nation's population, have created major changes in their climates over the past 150 years. The rate and amount of the urban climate change approximate those ... -
Applying an 8-Bit Multispectral Color-Composite Image Simulation Technique to Operational Real-Time AVHRR Data
(American Meteorological Society, 1992)The Geophysics Directorate's 8-bit multispectral color-composite image display technique has been installed on the Satellite Data Processing System at the German Military Geophysical Office in Traben-Trarbach, Germany. The ... -
Development of a Real-Time Interactive Storm-Monitoring Program in Phoenix, Arizona
(American Meteorological Society, 1992)The Arizona Thunderstorm Chase (AZTC) program, a cooperative project between the National Weather Service (NWS) in Phoenix and Arizona State University (ASU), uses trained ASU students as mobile observers with real-time ... -
Winter Icing and Storms Project (WISP)
(American Meteorological Society, 1992)Field studies in support of the Winter Icing and Storms Project (WISP) were conducted in the Colorado Front Range area from 1 February to 31 March 1990(WISP90) and from 15 January to 5 April 1991 (WISP91). The main goals ... -
Basic Meteorological Observations for Schools: Atmospheric Pressure
(American Meteorological Society, 1992)This article addresses measurement of atmospheric surface pressure using economical instruments. It is intended to provide members of the Society with a ready reference to respond to inquiries from earth and physical science ... -
A Networked Desktop Synoptic Laboratory
(American Meteorological Society, 1992)Over the past several years, the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois has developed a computerized weather laboratory that permits interactive access to real-time data from observing sites around ... -
Letzmann and Koschmieder's “Guidelines for Research on Funnels, Tornadoes, Waterspouts and Whirlwinds”
(American Meteorological Society, 1992)The most extensive published guidelines to carrying out studies of tornadoes were written by Johannes Letzmann and Harald Koschmieder, issued in 1937. Forgotten for decades, they are presented here in translation, accompanied ... -
Nonfederal Automated Weather Stations and Networks in the United States in the United States and Canada: A Preliminary Survey
(American Meteorological Society, 1992)Not all weather data are collected by federal agencies. Fueled by the need for more specific meteorological data in real or near-real time, the number of automated weather stations (AWSS) and AWS networks has expanded to ... -
The U.S. Department of Energy and the People's Republic of China' Academy of Sciences Joint Research on the Greenhouse Effect: 1985–1991 Research Progress
(American Meteorological Society, 1992)The U.S. Department of Energy and the People's Republic of China's Academy of Sciences signed an agreement on 19 August 1987 to carry out a joint research program on the study of global warming due to enhanced greenhouse ... -
Recent Great Lakes Ice Trends
(American Meteorological Society, 1992)Analysis of ice observations made by cooperative observers from shoreline stations reveals significant changes in the ice season on the North American Great Lakes over the past 35years. Although the dataset is highly ... -
Gust Factors Applied to Hurricane Winds
(American Meteorological Society, 1992)An important consideration in the design of structures is their response to extreme winds. This is especially true in regions affected by hurricanes. In this research, gust factors derived from hurricane wind-speed records ... -
Mesoscale Weather and Aviation Safety: The Case of Denver International Airport
(American Meteorological Society, 1992)The new Denver International Airport will be the first new major commercial airport to be built in the United States in 20 years. Concern has been expressed about the meteorology at the new airport site and its potential ... -
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Precipitation Types in the Transition Region of Winter Storms
(American Meteorological Society, 1992)Winter storms often produce snow, freezing rain, and ice pellets. The characteristics and formation of these forms of precipitation as well as their location within storms are reviewed. Phenomena such as accretion and fog ... -
3000 Years of Sea Level Change
(American Meteorological Society, 1992)Sea level change is generally taken to indicate climate change, and may be more nearly global than what we perceive to be climate change. Close to the beach, even a small sea level change (such as 1?3 m) produces important ... -
Satellite Cloud Composite Climatologies: A New High Resolution Tool in Atmospheric Research and Forecasting
(American Meteorological Society, 1992)GOES digital imagery has been collected and processed using new techniques over portions of the United States since March 1988. High spatial and temporal resolution satellite cloud composite climatologies (SCCCs) have been ...