Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions
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The 1986 Southeast Drought in Historical Perspective
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)The dry and hat weather in the southeast United States during the first seven months of 1986 caused record drought. The agricultural and hydrological perspectives of this drought are examined via a climatological time ... -
On the Development of Regional Climatic Scenarios for Policy-Oriented Climatic-Impact Assessment
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)A review on the development of climatic scenarios related to policy-oriented assessment of the impact of climatic variations is presented. It seeks to provide background information needed to evaluate the extent to which ... -
Toward a Policy for Climate Impacts
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)Current increases in the understanding of climatic processes, the availability of climate predictions, and the assessment of climatic impacts indicate that development of public policy to mitigate adverse impacts and enhance ... -
North Atlantic Oscillation: Concept and an Application
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)An outline of the concept of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), along with some of its history is presented. This is followed by a brief presentation of the results and implications of an encouraging new application of ... -
Real-Time Analysis of Local Wind Patterns for Application to Nuclear-Emergency Response
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PGandE) has sponsored development of a computer-based system for real-time analysis of local wind measurements in a complex-terrain setting. Mass-consistent modeling of tower- and ... -
South Central Coast Cooperative Aerometric Monitoring Program (SCCCAMP)
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)The SCCCAMP field measurement program, conducted 3 September to 7 October 1985, is the most comprehensive mesoscale photochemical study of its type ever undertaken. The study area encompasses 2 ? 104 km2 of coastal and ... -
Great Historical Events That Were Significantly Affected by the Weather: Part 8, Germany's War on the Soviet Union, 1941–45. I. Long-range Weather Forecasts for 1941–42 and Climatological Studies
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)A brief account is given of Baur's long-range weather forecast prepared in the autumn of 1941 for the 1941?42 winter in Eastern Europe. Baur's forecast called for a ?normal? or mild winter but the winter turned out to be ... -
Prominent November Coldwaves in the North Central United States Since 1901
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)The frequency and intensity of early winter (November) coldwaves were investigated for the north central United States. Twenty-two such storms occurred from 1901 to 1985, and were most frequent in the 1950s and early 1960s, ... -
HEXOS—Humidity Exchange Over the Sea A Program for Research on Water-Vapor and Droplet Fluxes from Sea of Air at Moderate to High Wind Speeds
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)HEXOS is an international program for the study of evaporation and spray-droplet flux from sea to air. The program includes measurements in the field at moderate-to-high wind speeds, wind-tunnel studies, instrument ... -
An Interactive Method for Processing and Display of Sea-Surface Temperature Fields Using VAS Multispectral Data
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)A technique for interactively producing sea-surface temperatures (SST)from VAS multispectral radiance observations and displaying the derived field is outlined. High-resolution composite images using data from several times ... -
Historical Atmospheric Transmission Changes and Changes in Midwestern Air Pollution
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)Measurements of haze, smoke, dust, and visibility in the midwest available from 1901 to 1980 reveal sizable temporal fluctuations. These appear useful as surrogates of air pollutants not measured before 1950. Their historical ... -
Tibet Revisited—TIPMEX-86
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)A long-planned field-measurement program to determine surface-energy budgets at two sites in Tibet was carried out during June 1986 in collaboration with scientists from the State Meteorological Administration, Academy of ... -
The Prototype Digital Weather Laboratory at Colorado State University
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)A new weather laboratory for teaching and applied research has laboratory uses DEC workstations and also hosts various microcomputers via a local area network to interface with the Cooperative institute for Research in the ... -
An Example of Hurricane Tracking and Forecasting with a Global Analysis-Forecasting System
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)The tracking of Hurricane Elena by the ECMWF operational analysis system is compared with reported positions from reconnaissance aircraft and coastal radar. An example forecast is shown for the operational model and also ... -
On the Development of the Theory of the QBO
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)Recollections of the discovery of the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO)of the equatorial stratosphere, and of the development of our present theoretical understanding of this phenomenon are presented. -
Regional Models: Emerging Research Tools for Synoptic Meteorologists
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)Although the development of limited-area, regional-scale numerical-weather prediction models has been driven largely by the practical need to improve quantitative precipitation forecasts, a related motivation has been ... -
Canadian Atlantic Storms Program: The Meteorological Field Project
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)The field phase of the Canadian Atlantic Storms Program (CASP) was conducted from 15 January to 15 March 1986. The principal objective of the meteorological component of the program was to begin the process of improving ... -
ROMPEX—The Rocky Mountain Peaks Experiment of 1985: Preliminary Assessment
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)During the late summer of 1985 a field experiment was conducted to investigate mountaintop winds over a broad area of the Rocky Mountains extending from south central Wyoming through northern New Mexico. The principal ... -
The Role of Research Measurement Networks as Contributions to Federal Assessments of Acid Deposition
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)Three demands for wet-deposition data and dry-deposition data are particularly important at the present time: 1) the analysis of long-term trends to evaluate the consequences of emission changes, 2) the measurement of ... -
Satellite Observations of Hurricane Elena (1985) Using the VAS 6.7-μm “Water-Vapor” Channel
(American Meteorological Society, 1987)Satellite imagery from the VISSR (Visible Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer) Atmospheric Sounder (VAS) 6.7-?m water-vapor absorption band is normally available to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in real time (half-hourly ...