Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Improved Ocean Surface Temperatures From Space—Comparisons With Drifting Buoys 

      Strong, Allan E.; McClain, E. Paul (American Meteorological Society, 1984)
      Multi-window infrared measurements, together with visual channel observations, enable relatively high-resolution and accurate local, regional, and global retrievals of ocean surface temperatures to be repetitively and ...

    • Value of Weather Information: A Descriptive Study of the Fruit-Frost Problem 

      Stewart, Thomas R.; Katz, Richard W.; Murphy, Allan H. (American Meteorological Society, 1984)
      This paper reports some results of a descriptive study of the value of weather information used by fruit growers in the Yakima Valley of central Washington to decide when to protect their orchards against freezing temperatures. ...

    • Effects of the El Chichón Volcanic Cloud on Solar Radiation Received at Fairbanks, Alaska 

      Wendler, Gerd (American Meteorological Society, 1984)
      Detailed insulation measurements have been carried out in Fairbanks for the last four years. Beginning on 15 November 1982, these measurements showed substantial changes, believed to be due to the dust cloud of El Chichón. ...

    • Uncertainty in Air Quality Modeling 

      Fox, Douglas G. (American Meteorological Society, 1984)
      Under the direction of the AMS Steering Committee for the EPA Cooperative Agreement on Air Quality Modeling, a small group of scientists convened to consider the question of uncertainty in air quality modeling. Because the ...

    • Medium Scale Disturbances In Total Ozone During Southern Hemisphere Summer 

      Schoeberl, Mark R.; Krueger, Arlin J. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      Distinct medium scale disturbances in Southern Hemisphere total ozone were observed by the Nimbus 7 Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer during the 1979 FGGE observing period. These disturbances are shown to be a result of ...

    • COPT 81: A Field Experiment Designed for the Study of Dynamics and Electrical Activity of Deep Convection in Continental Tropical Regions 

      Sommeria, Gilles; Testud, J. (American Meteorological Society, 1984)
      During May and June 1981 several French research organizations, the University of Abidjan (Ivory coast) and the Agency for security of Aeronautical Navigation (ASECNA), participated in the observational field program called ...

    • The U.S.-U.S.S.R. Agreement on Protection of the Environment and its Relationship to the U.S. National Climate Program 

      Bierly, Eugene W.; Mirabito, John A. (American Meteorological Society, 1984)
      In 1972 the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. agreed to cooperate in the field of Environmental Protection. A part of this agreement involved the formation of Working Group VIII (WG VIII), which deals with the influence of the environment ...

    • The Monsoon of East Asia and its Global Associations—A Survey 

      Lau, Ka-Ming; Li, Mai-Tsun (American Meteorological Society, 1984)
      Observations concerning the summer and winter monsoons of East Asia and their global associations are reviewed. The seasonal mean structure, transient variation, including intraseasonal to interannual, and synoptic to ...

    • Errors in Estimating Monthly Degree Day Normals by the Fast Method 

      Lehman, Richard L. (American Meteorological Society, 1984)
      The non-linear part of the relationship between monthly degree days and temperature was studied by use of 23 years of daily temperature data at 64 stations representing all major climatic zones in the co-terminous U.S. The ...

    • The Coriolis Force in Relation to the Sea and Land Breezes—A Historical Note 

      Neumann, J. (American Meteorological Society, 1984)
      The deflecting effect of the earth's rotation on winds has been known since the writings of Hadley in 1735, and observations of the clockwise diurnal directional turning of the sea and land breezes in the Northern Hemisphere ...

    • Review of the Unusual Winter of 1982–83 In the Upper Midwest 

      Wendland, W. M.; Bark, L. D.; Clark, D. R.; Curry, R. B.; Enz, J. W.; Hubbard, K. G.; Jones, V.; Kuehnast, E. L.; Lytle, W.; Newman, J.; Nurnberger, F. V.; Waite, P. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      Climatologists from the climate centers of 12 states of the upper Midwest contributed temperature, precipitation, and related data for December 1982, January and February 1983. Analyses present the month-to-month spatial ...

    • News Media Coverage of Seasonal Forecasts: The Case of Winter 1982–83 

      Riebsame, William E. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      Public interest in the 1982?83 winter forecast was heightened by antecedent press coverage of the possible effects of a solar luminosity decline and the El Chichon eruption on the climate. During the late summer and fall ...

    • What are the Seasons? 

      Trenberth, Kevin E. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      The concept of dividing the year into four seasons is reexamined to appraise critically the relative merit of two commonly used definitions of the seasons: 1) the astronomical definition, and 2) the meteorological breakdown ...

    • Short-Term Climate Predictions for Water Management 

      McCullough, Charles A. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      Short-term climate predictions (two weeks to two years) have many applications in operation of water supply and flood control facilities. They can influence use of water for irrigation, hydroelectric power production, flood ...

    • Wind Vanes in Ancient Mesopotamia, About 2000–1500 B.C. 

      Neumann, J.; Parpola, S. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      A search made of the Sumerian and Akkadian literature for indications of the possible existence of wind vanes in the ancient Mesopotamian civilizations resulted in two discoveries. First, in one Akkadian fable, originally ...

    • An Analysis of the “Blizzard of '88” 

      Kocin, Paul J. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      A collection of detailed surface weather observations is used to construct an analysis of the legendary ?Blizzard of '88,? an intense cyclone that was accompanied by unusually heavy snowfall, high winds and cold temperatures ...

    • Broadcasters' Use of Agricultural Weather Products: A North Carolina Survey 

      Johnson, Gregory L.; Perry, Katharine B. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      Over one-third of the broadcast stations in North Carolina responding to a survey use agricultural weather information daily. The survey was conducted to assess broadcasters' use of advisory information made available by ...

    • An East Coast Lightning Detection Network 

      Orville, Richard E.; Henderson, Ronald W.; Bosart, Lance F. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      A magnetic direction-finding network for the detection of lightning cloud-to-ground strikes has been installed, and it records most of the ground flashes from Maine to North Carolina and as far west as Ohio. This area ...

    • Heavy Rain in the Middle East Related to Unusual Jet Stream Properties 

      Dayan, Uri; Abramski, Richard (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      A major and fatal flooding event illustrative of rare similar cases in the Middle East was related to unusual characteristics of the jet stream. Contrary to the usual conditions, the jet stream had anticyclonic curvature ...

    • Snow Particle Morphology in the Seasonal Snow Cover 

      Colbeck, S. C. (American Meteorological Society, 1983)
      Snow precipitation degenerates rapidly once it reaches the ground. A wide variety of particle types develop in seasonal snow covers. thus leading to a wide range of snow properties. The most common varieties of particles ...