Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions
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Photographic Documentation of Some Distinctive Cloud Forms Observed Beneath a Large Cumulonimbus
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)Photographs of some variform cloud features observed in the inflow sector of an intense thunderstorm that occurred in southeastern Montana on 11 July 1981 are described. Associated meteorological conditions are interpreted ... -
Ultralight Sounder: An Airborne System for Studying the Planetary Boundary Layer
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)Until recently, investigations of the temperature structure of the planetary boundary layer have been confined to the use of balloon soundings (tethered balloon sondes, rawinsondes), disposable drop-sondes, or high performance ... -
The Effect of Spatial and Temporal Averaging on Sampling Strategies for Cloud Amount Data
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)Sampling and averaging strategies are as significant an influence upon the resulting cloud climatologies as the resolution of the original cloud archives. An investigation of total cloud amount data, as represented by the ... -
Great Historical Events That Were Significantly Affected by the Weather: 6 Inundations and the Mild Winter 1672–73 Help Protect Amsterdam from French Conquest
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)In the 17th century, the small Dutch Republic, the union of seven provinces of the northern part of the Low Countries. was the most important country in the world in matters of finance, commerce, and shipping (as well as ... -
A History of Prevailing Ideas about the General Circulation of the Atmosphere
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)During the past three centuries. the prevailing ideas about the general circulation of the earth's atmosphere have evolved in a stepwise manner. Early in each step, a new theoretical idea is formulated. Late in each step, ... -
Some Scientific Objectives of a Satellite-Borne Lightning Mapper
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)The Lightning Mapper Sensor is proposed as an instrument for use on a geosynchronous satellite in the late 1980s to monitor lightning activity continuously over broad areas of the earth. The system was suggested in response ... -
The 1980–81 Drought in Eastern Pennsylvania
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)Newspapers, television, and newsweeklies contained numerous articles proclaiming drought conditions during 1980 and 1981. This study investigates the causes and consequences of the drought as it affected eastern Pennsylvania. ... -
Some Hail Research in China
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)Some hail research in China is summarized. A number of topics are introduced and discussed briefly, but details are not provided. Specialists interested in the details will find them in the published literature listed in ... -
Observations of Optical Lighting Emissions from above Thunderstorms Using U-2 Aircraft
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)In order to determine how to achieve orders of magnitude improvement in spatial and temporal resolution and in sensitivity of satellite lightning sensors. better quantitative measurements of the characteristics of the ... -
Empirical Orthogonal Function Analysis of Wind Vectors over the Tropical Pacific Region
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)The method of empirical orthogonal function analysis is applied to wind stress vectors over the tropical Pacific Ocean from 1961 through 1978. It is determined that this vector analysis enables a more thorough analysis of ... -
The Use of a Mesoscale Numerical Model for Evaluations of Pollutant Transport and Diffusion in Coastal Regions and over Irregular Terrain
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)A modelling approach is presented that appears to have the potential to provide reliable assessments of pollution concentration in coastal zones and complex terrain, where the assumptions behind current operational air ... -
Equatorial Long Waves in Geostationary Satellite Observations and in a Multichannel Sea Surface Temperature Analysis
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)Geostationary satellite observations of a zonally oriented sea surface temperature front in the eastern equatorial Pacific were made between 1975 and 1981. Long waves appeared along the front mainly during the summer and ... -
The Radio and Television Seal of Approval Program of Society: Policies and Procedures
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Sun Photometry
(American Meteorological Society, 1983)Multi-wavelength sun photometry has been a subject of interest in meteorology for two and a half centuries. The technique provides a quantitative index that relates to total suspended aerosol in the atmospheric air column ... -
Another Interpretation of the pH Trend in the United States
(American Meteorological Society, 1982)Concern about the apparent increase in the acidity of rainfall from the 1950s to the 1970s prompted reexamination of data from the intermittent, short-term sampling networks that are the basis of the trend estimates. A ... -
A Simple Model Illustrating Baroclinic Development
(American Meteorological Society, 1982)A simple one-layer, quasi-geostraphic model of vertical motion and surface pressure tendency is derived and used to illustrate relationships between various parameters such as stability, latitude. wind speed, and the ... -
Polygonal Eye Walls and Rainbands in Hurricanes
(American Meteorological Society, 1982)It was noted from analyses of radar data obtained in hurricanes that both the spiral bands and the inner boundary of the wall cloud frequently were composed of a series of straight line segments. Indeed, the eye of a strong ... -
A Digital Archive of Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover, November 1966 through December 1980
(American Meteorological Society, 1982)The purpose of this article is to acquaint the research community with a new data base?a digitized archive of Northern Hemisphere snow cover. Historically, those researchers who needed snow cover data for climatic and ... -
A Review of Downdrafts at the Rear of Tropical Squall Lines
(American Meteorological Society, 1982)The observational evidence for the formation of downdrafts at the rear of tropical squall lines is reviewed. Some mechanisms, which have been proposed for the formation of such downdrafts, also are reviewed. Although the ...