Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Satellite Analyses of Antarctic Katabatic Wind Behavior 

      Bromwich, David H. (American Meteorological Society, 1989)
      Prominent warm signatures of strong, negatively buoyant, katabatic airstreams are present at thermal infrared wavelengths as a result of intense vertical mixing and drift-snow transport within stable boundary layers. These ...

    • The Shape of Large Tropospheric Clouds, or “Very Like a Whale” 

      Gifford, F. A. (American Meteorological Society, 1989)
      Lovejoy (1982) analyzed radar and satellite images of convective clouds and rainbands extending over an area range from 10 to 106 km2 and found the fractal cloud-perimeter dimension to equal 1.35, indicating the presence ...

    • Publication Trends in American Meteorological Society Technical Journals 

      Johnson, Richard H.; Schubert, Wayne H. (American Meteorological Society, 1989)
      Some statistical measures of growth of American Meteorological Society technical journals have been compiled. A general upward trend in total number of articles, pages, and an increase (nearly doubling during the past 20 ...

    • Urban Bias in Area-averaged Surface Air Temperature Trends 

      Karl, Thomas R.; Jones, Philip D. (American Meteorological Society, 1989)
      A data set derived from the United States Historical Climate Network has been compared to two global land-based temperature data sets that have been commonly cited in connection with the detection of the greenhouse effect ...

    • The Severe Winter in Europe 1941–42: The Large-scale Circulation, Cut-off Lows, and Blocking 

      Lejenäs, Harald (American Meteorological Society, 1989)
      The winter of 1941?42 is known as the coldest European winter of the 20th Century. The temperature was much below normal from the beginning of January until the end of March 1942. Blockings and cut-off lows were frequent, ...

    • The Naval Research Laboratory's Air-Sea Interaction Blimp Experiment 

      Blanc, Theodore V.; Plant, William J.; Keller, William C. (American Meteorological Society, 1989)
      The rationale is given for a unique experiment in which microwave scatterometer and surface flux measurements are to be made from a blimp to develop an improved scatterometer model function. A principal goal of the effort ...

    • The Boulder, Colorado, Concentric Halo Display of 21 July 1986 

      Neiman, Paul J. (American Meteorological Society, 1989)
      An exceptional concentric halo display was observed in Boulder, Colorado, on 21 July 1986. As many as six halos were observed and photographed simultaneously between 1530 and 1945 UTC. Extensive photographic documentation ...

    • The Importance of Agricultural Weather Information: A Michigan Survey 

      Carlson, J. D. (American Meteorological Society, 1989)
      A survey was conducted across Michigan in early 1986 in an attempt to better understand the needs of the agricultural community for weather information. The sample analyzed represented 318 respondents in agricultural ...

    • Cloud Classification Before Luke Howard 

      Gedzelman, Stanely David (American Meteorological Society, 1989)
      A brief outline of the history of cloud painting prior to the first cloud classification schemes of Luke Howard and Lamarck is presented. It is shown that European painters had accurately represented most of the different ...

    • Measuring the Performance of Data Validators 

      Guttman, N.; Karl, C.; Reek, T.; Shuler, V. (American Meteorological Society, 1988)
      The National Climatic Data Center is committed to archiving and disseminating data of high quality. Automated screening of data has proven to be very effective in isolating suspect and erroneous values in large meteorological ...

    • False-Color Display of Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) Data 

      Negri, Andrew J.; Adler, Robert F.; Kummerow, Christian D. (American Meteorological Society, 1989)
      Displays of multi-frequency passive microwave data from the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) flying on the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) spacecraft are presented. Observed brightness temperatures ...

    • Meteorological Considerations Used in Planning the NEXRAD Network 

      Leone, D. A.; Endlich, R. M.; Petričeks, J.; Collis, R. T. H.; Porter, J. R. (American Meteorological Society, 1989)
      A systematic and objective approach was used to optimize the siting of the individual radars forming the Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) network. Prime consideration was given to meteorological factors in conjunction ...

    • The Polar Regions: Research in a Changing World 

      Wilkniss, Peter E. (American Meteorological Society, 1989)
      No abstract available.

    • Chaos, Strange Attractors, and Weather 

      Tsonis, A. A.; Elsner, J. B. (American Meteorological Society, 1989)
      Some of the basic principles of the theory of dynamical systems are presented, introducing the reader to the concepts of chaos theory and strange attractors and their implications in meteorology. New numerical techniques ...

    • GUFMEX: A Study of Return Flow in the Gulf of Mexico 

      Lewis, J. M.; Hayden, C. M.; Merrill, R. T.; Schneider, J. M. (American Meteorological Society, 1989)
      During February and March 1988, a limited field experiment was conducted over the Gulf of Mexico to gather data on two phenomena: air mass modification over the Loop Current, and return flow characteristics of modified ...

    • Smoke Flow Visualization in a Tributary of a Deep Valley 

      Porch, W. M.; Barr, S.; Clements, W. E.; Archuleta, J. A.; Fernandez, A. B.; King, C. W.; Neff, W. D.; Hosker, R. P. (American Meteorological Society, 1989)
      Smoke pot and oil fog smoke tracers have been used to plan meteorological instrument placement and quantitatively estimate air volume flow from a tributary during nocturnal drainage wind conditions. The estimated volume ...

    • The Island Thunderstorm Experiment (ITEX)—A Study of Tropical Thunderstorms in the Maritime Continent 

      Keenan, Tom D.; Manton, Michael J.; Holland, Greg J.; Morton, Bruce R. (American Meteorological Society, 1989)
      The Island Thunderstorm Experiment (ITEX) is a field and modeling study of the tropical thunderstorms that form regularly over Bathurst and Melville Islands north of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, during the ...

    • Seasat: Results of the Mission 

      Stewart, Robert H. (American Meteorological Society, 1988)
      On 26 June 1978 the world's first oceanographic satellite, Seasat, was launched into orbit, beginning a 104-day mission of observing the oceans. After an extensive analysis of the accuracy of data from the satellite by all ...

    • The University of Utah Interactive Dynamics Program—One Approach to Interactive Access and Storage of Meteorological Data 

      Horel, John D.; Staley, Lloyd R.; Barker, Timothy W. (American Meteorological Society, 1988)
      An interactive-software package has been developed in the University of Utah's Department of Meteorology to access and display meteorological data received via satellite broadcast. The retrieval of the meteorological data ...

    • Convection Initiation and Downburst Experiment (CINDE) 

      Wilson, James W.; Moore, James A.; Foote, G. Brant; Martner, Brooks; Uttal, Taneil; Wilczak, James M.; Rodi, Alfred R. (American Meteorological Society, 1988)
      The Convection Initiation and Downburst Experiment (CINDE) was conducted in the Denver, Colorado area from 22 June to 7 August 1987 to study processes leading to the formation of deep convection and the physics of downbursts. ...