Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Clarification of Confirmation in the FACE-2 Experiment 

      Woodley, William L.; Flueck, John A.; Biondini, Ronald; Sax, Robert I.; Simpson, Joanne; Gagin, Abe (American Meteorological Society, 1982)
      The Florida Area cumulus Experiment (FACE) is a long-term program to determine the potential of dynamic seeding for increasing convective rainfall over a fixed target area. The first phase of FACE (FACE-1) provided strong ...

    • Agricultural Meteorology in China 

      Rosenberg, Norman J. (American Meteorological Society, 1982)
      During nearly five weeks in China (May?June 1981), the author visited scientific institutions and experiment stations engaged in agricultural meteorology and climatology research and teaching. The facilities, studies, and ...

    • Management Opportunities for Women Meteorologists 

      Simpson, Joanne; Griffith, Cecilia (American Meteorological Society, 1982)
      No abstract available.

    • On the Verification of Seasonal Climate Forecasts 

      Bettge, Thomas W.; Baumhefner, David P. (American Meteorological Society, 1981)
      Readily available forecasts of winter season temperature anomalies for the continental United States are analyzed and compared to the observed anomalies for each of the past five winter seasons. Forcast skill is evaluated ...

    • Storm Transfer and Response Experiment 

      Fleagle, R. G.; Miyake, M.; Garrett, J. F.; McBean, G. A. (American Meteorological Society, 1982)
      An air-sea interaction research program (STREX) has been carried out in the Gulf of Alaska to investigate characteristics of the boundary layers of the atmosphere and ocean in middle-latitude storms. Observations were made ...

    • Comments on Measuring Turbulent Exchange Within and Above Forest Canopy 

      Tajchman, Stanislaw J. (American Meteorological Society, 1981)
      Actual problems of measuring the turbulent exchange in and above forests (e.g., site requirements of micrormeteorological observations, aerodynamic characteristics of forests, observations of the crown-produced mixing ...

    • Determining Economic Benefits of Satellite Data in Short-Range Forecasting 

      Suchman, David; Auvine, Brian; Hinton, Barry (American Meteorological Society, 1981)
      To examine whether the addition of satellite data to forecasting procedures helps forecasters make better forecasted we studied a meteorological consulting farm and its clients before and after satellite data were used in ...

    • Benvenuto Cellini (1500–71) and “Rainstopping” 

      Lindgrén, S.; Neumann, J. (American Meteorological Society, 1981)
      Benvenuto Cellini (1500?71), the renowned goldsmith and sculptor of the late Renaissance in Italy, claimed in his autobiography that he directed artillery fire at rain clouds, thus stopping the rain. The occasion was the ...

    • A Real-Time Weather System for Forestry 

      Paul, James T. (American Meteorological Society, 1981)
      The Forestry Weather Interpretations System (FWIS) has been pilot-tested in 12 southern states from Virginia to Texas for two years. Hourly surface observational data from airport locations, upper-air soundings, and Georgia ...

    • Modification of Precipitation from Warm Clouds—A Review 

      Cotton, William R. (American Meteorological Society, 1982)
      This review is begun with a brief summary of the current status of our understanding of the physics of precipitation in warm clouds. The impact of warm-cloud precipitation processes on the evolution of the ice phase in ...

    • The Joint Airport Weather Studies Project 

      McCarthy, John; Wilson, James W.; Fujita, T. Theodore (American Meteorological Society, 1982)
      The Joint Airport Weather Studies (JAWS) Project will investigate the microburst event, having 2?10 km spatial and 2?10 min temporal scales, at Denver's Stapleton International Airport during the summer of 1982. JAWS ...

    • Cloud Cover Archiving on a Global Scale: A Discussion of Principles 

      Henderson-Sellers, A.; Hughes, N. A.; Wilson, M. (American Meteorological Society, 1981)
      Monitoring of climatic variability and climate modeling both require a reliable global cloud data set. Examination is made of the temporal and spatial variability of cloudiness in light of recommendations made by GARP in ...

    • Weather and Climate Needs for Lidar Observations from Space and Concepts for Their Realization 

      Atlas, David; Korb, C. Lawrence (American Meteorological Society, 1981)
      The spectrum of weather and climate needs for lidar observations from space is dismissed This paper focuses mainly on the requirements for winds, temperature, moisture, and pressure. Special emphasis is given to the needs ...

    • Research on Electrical Properties of Severe Thunderstorms in the Great Plains 

      Rust, W. David; Taylor, William L.; MacGorman, Donald R.; Arnold, Roy T. (American Meteorological Society, 1981)
      In 1978 we began a coordinated effort to study the electrical behavior of large and severe thunderstorms that form over the Great Plains of the central United States. Methods of approach include the study of characteristics ...

    • Systems and Meteorology 

      Hills, Rodney; Beer, Tom (American Meteorological Society, 1981)
      Meteorological services are expected to function as forecasting agencies, but much of the existing data collection network appears to exist in order to provide a data base for scientific studies. A better definition of the ...

    • Judging Air Quality Model Performance 

      Fox, Douglas G. (American Meteorological Society, 1981)
      Under the direction of the AMS Steering Committee for the EPA Cooperative Agreement on air quality modeling, a small group of scientists was convened to review and recommend procedures to evaluate the performance of air ...

    • A Study of the Severity of the Midwestern Winters of 1977 and 1978 Using Heating Degree Days Determined from Both Measured and Wind Chill Temperatures 

      Dare, Patricia M. (American Meteorological Society, 1981)
      The winters of 1976?77 and 1977?78 were severe by virtually any standard. In this study, heating degree day (NDD) accumulations for these two winters as well as for the 1941?70 normals are examined at 31 National Weather ...

    • Modeling Occurrences of Non-VFR Weather: A Case Study for Design of Flight Instruction Programs 

      Carney, Thomas Q.; Dale, Robert F. (American Meteorological Society, 1981)
      Objective methods in which climatology is considered are needed in the design of flight instruction programs. Weather conditions less than the minimum (LM) thresholds designated for Minimum Instructional Visual Flight Rules ...

    • Artificial Stereo Presentation of Meteorological Data Fields 

      Hasler, A. F.; desJardins, M.; Negri, A. J. (American Meteorological Society, 1981)
      The innate capability to perceive 3-dimensional stereo imagery has been exploited to present multidimensional meteorological data fields. Variations on an artificial stereo technique first discussed by Pichel et al (1973) ...

    • Parameterization of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer in Large-Scale Models 

      Driedonks, A. G. M.; Tennekes, H. (American Meteorological Society, 1981)
      A general review is given of the characteristic problems encountered in the parameterization of the atmospheric boundary layer in large-scale models. Only those parameterizations that interact with the large-scale flow are ...