Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • A Survey of New Jersey's Agricultural Weather Service Users 

      Getz, Rodger R. (American Meteorological Society, 1978)
      Three surveys were conducted to examine the availability and usage of agricultural weather information in southern New jersey. Farmers, representatives of the agricultural industry, and radio stations in southern New Jersey ...

    • Areal Parameters of the Sea Breeze and Its Vertical Structure in the Boston Basin 

      Barbato, James P. (American Meteorological Society, 1978)
      The sea breeze is a mesoscale wind whose frequency of occurrence is 40?50 times annually in the Boston Basin. Boston's sea breeze is among the best developed of all midlatitude sites studied. The complexity of site conditions ...

    • Mesoscale Cloud Patterns Revealed by Apollo-Soyuz Photographs 

      Black, Peter G. (American Meteorological Society, 1978)
      Complicated internal-wave patterns are revealed in Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) photographs of marine fog patches. Evidence for the reflection of atmospheric wave packets at water-land boundaries is contained in these ...

    • Regional Patterns of Mixing Depth and Stability: Sodar Network Measurements for Input to Air Quality Models 

      Russell, Philip B.; Uthe, Edward E. (American Meteorological Society, 1978)
      A network of 13 sodars (acoustic radars) was operated in the San Francisco Bay Area for 2.5 months of the 1976 smog season. The goal was to produce a data base on time-dependent mixing depth and stability patterns for input ...

    • Standards for Meteorology 

      Hoehne, W. E. (American Meteorological Society, 1978)
      There has been a long-term and increasing demand upon the American Meteorological Society to provide meteorological standards. The Society recognizes the need but has been unwilling to assume direct responsibility for the ...

    • A Survey of External Users of NWS Information 

      Krawitz, Lowell; Newhouse, Henry (American Meteorological Society, 1978)
      One of many studies by the Systems Development Office of the National Weather Service in support of the Automation of Field operations and Services (AFOS) Program is the External User Study. This study is directed at the ...

    • Instrumentation and Data Acquisition System for an Air-Sea Interaction Buoy 

      Raman, S. Sethu; Tuthill, W. A.; McNeil, J. (American Meteorological Society, 1978)
      Instrumentation and data acquisition system for a typical air-sea interaction experiment are described. The experiments were conducted with the help of a stable air-sea interaction buoy anchored 5 km offshore in the Atlantic ...

    • Response Characteristics of a New Bidirectional Vane 

      Raman, S. Sethu; Tuthill, W. A. (American Meteorological Society, 1978)
      The design and construction of a bivane to measure horizontal and elevation angle fluctuations in the atmosphere are presented. Wind tunnel tests indicated a reasonably high-frequency response. Field comparisons with a ...

    • The Case for an Expanded Digital WEFAX 

      Bristor, C. L. (American Meteorological Society, 1978)
      Arguments are presented in support of an intermediate band-width rebroadcast service that would make geostationary satellite image data in digital form available frequently to a broader base of users. The appeal of locally ...

    • Wind Field Measurement in the Nonprecipitous Regions Surrounding Severe Storms by an Airborne Pulsed Doppler Lidar System 

      Bilbro, James W.; Vaughan, William W. (American Meteorological Society, 1978)
      Coherent Doppler lidar appears to hold great promise in contributing to the basic store of knowledge concerning flow field characteristics in the nonprecipitous regions surrounding severe storms. The Doppler lidar, through ...

    • USAF Aerial Weather Reconnaissance Using the Lockheed WC-130 Aircraft 

      Henderson, Rodney S. (American Meteorological Society, 1978)
      Air Force weather reconnaissance forces fly a wide variety of missions for many different military and civilian agencies. The workhorse of the weather reconnaissance fleet is the Lockheed WC-130 ?Hercules,? operated by ...

    • The Superpressue Balloon Sounding Technique for the Study of Atmospheric Meso-and Microscale Phenomena 

      Cadet, Daniel (American Meteorological Society, 1978)
      The history of the superpressure balloon sounding technique for scientific investigation of the dynamics of the atmosphere is noted. The technology of the balloon and associated pay-load is briefly described, and the ...

    • A Data Acquisition System for Airborne Meteorological Research 

      Duncan, T. Michael; Brown, Robert C. (American Meteorological Society, 1978)
      A new data acquisition system designed for use in meteorological research on small aircraft is described. Compact in size, weight, and power, the system uses a 16-bit microcomputer and 57 000 bytes of memory and provides ...

    • Doppler Radar Probing of the Clear Atmosphere 

      Gage, K. S.; Balsley, B. B. (American Meteorological Society, 1978)
      In the past few years, sensitive Doppler radars have been used to probe the clear atmosphere from the boundary layer up to stratospheric altitudes. Routine Doppler radar observations are now attainable over a wide range ...

    • Statistics on Black Meteorologists in Six Organizational Units of the Federal Government 

      Bacon-Bercey, June (American Meteorological Society, 1978)
      Programs relating to full utilization and to increasing the pool of black atmospheric scientists require factual information. Statistically reliable information on black meteorologists is needed to determine any improvement ...

    • NWS's Flash Flood Warning and Disaster Preparedness Programs 

      Mogil, H. Michael; Monro, John C.; Groper, Herbert S. (American Meteorological Society, 1978)
      Flash floods have become the nation's number one stormy weather killer in the 1970s. Deaths from flash floods are now approaching 200 each year compared to an average of less than 70 per year during the preceding 30-year ...

    • On a Relation between Winds on the Earth and Jupiter 

      Lucadamo, Frank J.; Panofsky, H. A. (American Meteorological Society, 1978)
      A paper published in 1948 suggested that there was a correlation of 0.62 between the wind on Jupiter (as indicated by the motion of the Great Red Spot) and mean zonal geostrophic winds at the surface of the earth. Observations ...

    • H.-B. de Saussure: The First Mountain Meteorologist 

      Barry, R. G. (American Meteorological Society, 1978)
      The investigations of de Saussure on altitudinal effects on meteorological elements in the Alps during the 1780s are discussed. His ideas on the cause of cold in mountains and his attempts to determine evaporation and ...

    • Sea-Surface Temperature Anomaly Generation in Relation to Atmospheric Storms 

      Elsberry, Russell L.; Garwood, Roland W. (American Meteorological Society, 1978)
      An extended period of reduced surface heat and momentum fluxes due to the absence of atmospheric storms may result in upper-ocean temperature anomalies that persist for months. The predominance of either anomalously high ...

    • Meteorological Satellites in Support of Weather Modification 

      Reynolds, David W.; Vonder Harr, Thomas H.; Grant, Lewis O. (American Meteorological Society, 1978)
      During the past several years, many weather modification programs have been incorporating meteorological satellite data into both the operations and the analysis phase of these projects. This has occurred because of the ...