Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Are There Oceanographic Explanations for the Israelites'Crossing of the Red Sea? 

      Nof, Doron; Paldor, Nathan (American Meteorological Society, 1992)
      Two relatively simple physical oceanographic processes are suggested as plausible explanations for the biblical description of the Israelites' Crossing of the Red Sea during their exodus from Egypt. The first involves ...

    • An Examination of Four-Dimensional Data-Assimilation Techniques for Numerical Weather Prediction 

      Harms, Dewey E.; Raman, Sethu; Madala, Rangarao V. (American Meteorological Society, 1992)
      Four-dimensional data-assimilation methods, along with the most commonly used objective analysis and initialization techniques, are examined from a historical perspective. Operational techniques, including intermittent ...

    • A Century of Monitoring Weather and Crops: The Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin 

      Heddinghaus, Thomas R.; Le Comte, Douglas M. (American Meteorological Society, 1992)
      Publication of a national weekly weather summary called the Weekly Weather Chronicle began in 1872. This summary was the precursor of today's Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin (WWCB), a publication that reports global weather ...

    • Meteorological Implications of the First Voyage of Christopher Columbus 

      Cerveny, Randall S.; Hobgood, Jay S. (American Meteorological Society, 1992)
      The log of the first voyage of Christopher Columbus to the New World provides valuable information on the meteorological conditions of September 1492. Comparison and analysis of the descriptive accounts of weather made by ...

    • Impacts of a Destructive and Well-Observed Cross-Country Winter Storm 

      Martner, Brooks E.; Rauber, Robert M.; Ramamurthy, Mohan K.; Rasmussen, Roy M.; Prater, Erwin T. (American Meteorological Society, 1992)
      A winter storm that crossed the continental United States in mid-February 1990 produced hazardous weather across a vast area of the nation. A wide range of severe weather was reported, including heavy snowfall; freezing ...

    • An Example of a Research Experience for Undergraduates 

      Orvilie, Harold D.; Knight, Nancy C. (American Meteorological Society, 1992)
      This paper illustrates the Planning and conduct of a Research Experience for Undegraduates (REU) project associated with the 1989 North Dakota Thunderstorm Project held in June/July of that year near Bismarck, North Dakota. ...

    • Great Historical Events That Were Significantly Affected by the Weather: Part 10, Crop Failure in Britain in 1799 and 1800 and the British Decision to Send a Naval Force to the Baltic Early in 1801 

      Neumann, J.; Kington, J. (American Meteorological Society, 1992)
      In 1799 and 1800, crop failures struck the British Isles. The crop failure of 1799 was due to the combined effects of the cold winter of 1798?99 and the cool and rainy growing season of the year. The summer was characterized ...

    • The North Dakota Thunderstorm Project: A Cooperative Study of High Plains Thunderstorms 

      Boe, Bruce A.; Stith, Jeffrey L.; Smith, Paul L.; Hirsch, John H.; Helsdon, John H.; Detwiler, Andrew G.; Orville, Harold D.; Martner, Brooks E.; Reinking, Roger F.; Meitín, Rebecca J.; Brown, Rodger A. (American Meteorological Society, 1992)
      The North Dakota Thunderstorm Project was conducted in the Bismarck, North Dakota, area from 12 June through 22 July 1989. The project deployed Doppler radars, cloud physics aircraft, and supporting instrumentation to study ...

    • The Down Upper Doppler and Electricity Experiment (DUNDEE): Overview and Preliminary Results 

      Rutledge, Steven A.; Williams, Earle R.; Keenan, Thomas D. (American Meteorological Society, 1992)
      DUNDEE (Down Under Doppler and Electricity Experiment) is described. DUNDEE was carded out in the vicinity of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, during the wet seasons of November 1988 through February 1989, and November ...

    • Atmospheric Research Using Kites: Here We Go Again! 

      Balsley, B. B.; Baisley, C. L.; Williams, J. B.; Tyrrell, G. W. (American Meteorological Society, 1992)
      A recent campaign on Christmas Island in the equatorial Pacific has demonstrated that, at least under some conditions, simple and relatively inexpensive kites can serve as effective platforms for continuous monitoring of ...

    • Nonlinear Prediction, Chaos, and Noise 

      Elsner, J. B.; Tsonis, A. A. (American Meteorological Society, 1992)
      We present a brief overview of some new methodologies for making predictions on time-series data. These ideas stern from two rapidly growing fields: nonlinear dynamics (choas) theory and parallel distributed processing. ...

    • Richardson's Barotropic Forecast: A Reappraisal 

      Lynch, Peter (American Meteorological Society, 1992)
      To elucidate his numerical technique and to examine the effectiveness of geostrophic initial winds, Lewis Fry Richardson carried out an idealized forecast using the linear shallow-water equations and simple analytical ...

    • Applying Weather Analyses and Forecasts in the Navy Decision-making Process 

      Brand, Samson (American Meteorological Society, 1992)
      The meteorologist in the navy is rarely the decision maker. The meteorological information that is produced by model output or remotely sensed data has to be presented in a more tactically relevant form before being applied ...

    • Assessment of the Role of Aircraft Reconnaissance on Tropical Cyclone Analysis and Forecasting 

      Gray, William M.; Neumann, Charles; Tsui, Ted L. (American Meteorological Society, 1991)
      The impact of aircraft reconnaissance on tropical cyclone (TC) observation and forecasting is assessed. The motivation for this assessment is the termination of Department of Defense (DOD) aircraft reconnaissance in the ...

    • Effects of Recent Thermometer Changes in the Cooperative Station Network 

      Quayle, Robert G.; Easterling, David R.; Karl, Thomas R.; Hughes, Pamela Y. (American Meteorological Society, 1991)
      During the past five years, the National Weather Service (NWS) has replaced over half of its liquid-in-glass maximum and minimum thermometers in wooden Cotton Region Shelters (CRSS) with thermistor-based Maximum-Minimum ...

    • CORRIGENDUM 

      Unknown author (American Meteorological Society, 1991)
      Correction to Volume 72, Issue 10, Article 1521.

    • The Anticipated Sounding Capabilities of GOES-I and Beyond 

      Hayden, Christopher M.; Schmit, Timothy J. (American Meteorological Society, 1991)
      One aspect of the modernized observational capability of the National Weather Service will be geostationary sounding of temperature and moisture from GOES-I, currently scheduled for launch in 1992. The capability has evolved ...

    • Overcoming Biases of Precipitation Measurement: A History of the USSR Experience 

      Groisman, P. Ya; Koknaeva, V. V.; Belokrylova, T. A.; Karl, T. R. (American Meteorological Society, 1991)
      Documenting the instrumentally observed precipitation climate record presents many challenges because scientists must rely on data from stations that undergo many changes in the course of their operation. Detecting changes ...

    • North American Rawinsonde Observations: Problems Concerns, and a Call to Action 

      Schwartz, Barry E.; Doswell, Charles A. (American Meteorological Society, 1991)
      Meteorologists, like most scientists, often use observational data assuming the necessary steps have been taken to ensure that the quality of the data has been properly controlled. Experience developing an archive of ...

    • The Polarization Lidar Technique for Cloud Research: A Review and Current Assessment 

      Sassen, Kenneth (American Meteorological Society, 1991)
      The development of the polarization lidar field over the past two decades is reviewed, and the current cloud-research capabilities and limitations are evaluated. Relying on fundamental scattering principles governing the ...