Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • Airport Weather Service: Some Future Trends 

      Beran, D. W.; Hooke, W. H.; Little, C. G.; Coons, F. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      The current state of aviation weather forecasting and its effect on weather-related aircraft accidents are reviewed. The authors predict that new approaches will be necessary if the technological gap is to be narrowed ...

    • New Features of Global Climatology Revealed by Satellite-Derived Oceanic Rainfall Maps 

      Rao, M. S. V.; Theon, J. S. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      Analysis of satellite-derived oceanic rainfall maps reveals certain distinctive characteristics of global patterns for the years 1973?74. The main ones are: 1) the forking of the Intertropical Convergence Zone in the ...

    • Global Analysis of Oceanographic Data 

      Levitus, Sydney; Oort, Abraham H. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      A project to objectively analyze a large quantity of oceanographic data for the world ocean is described. Preliminary results are encouraging within the limits of data available. Results are being used in a variety of ways ...

    • The TWERL Experiment 

      Unknown author (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      one of the experiments aboard the Nimbus-6 satellite was a data collection and Doppler location system used in conjunction with a fleet of instrumented superpressure balloon platforms. The acronym TWERLE stands for Tropical ...

    • The Winds in the World of the Ancient Mesopotamian Civilizations 

      Neumann, J. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      The ancient Mesopotamian civilizations (Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, and Babylonia), reaching back to before 3000 B.C., did not develop or possess the notion of the ?cardinal? astronomical directions?N, E, S, and W?until the ...

    • Trends in Skill of Public Forecasts at Louisville, Ky. 

      Cook, Doyle; Smith, David R. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      Forecasts issued to the public during the 10-year period 1966?75 by the National Weather Service Forecast Office, Louisville, Ky., are compared with guidance forecasts produced by the National Meteorological Center for the ...

    • A High-Frequency Radio Acoustic Sounder for Remote Measurement of Atmospheric Winds and Temperature 

      Frankel, Michael S.; Chang, Norman J. F.; Sanders, Melvin J. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      The Radio Acoustic Sounding System (RASS) is used to remotely measure atmospheric temperature profiles. The technique used for these measurements is Doppler tracking of a short, high-intensity acoustic pulse with an RF ...

    • Operational Forecasting Using Automated Guidance 

      Snellman, Leonard W. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      The impact of increasing automation of meteorological guidance on manual preparation of operational weather forecasts is discussed. There appears to be some evidence that forecasters are abdicating their meteorological ...

    • The Meteorological Tradition of Prague, Czechoslovakia 

      Bělohlávek, Vlastimil (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      This article is a summary of a public lecture given in 1975 on the 200th anniversary of the oldest meteorological observatory in Central Europe?the Clementinum in Prague. A short history of the meteorological observations ...

    • The Dulles Airport Pressure Jump Detector Array for Gust Front Detection 

      Bedard, A. J.; Hooke, W. H.; Beran, D. W. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      Wind shear has long been recognized as one of the major aviation hazards in the airport environment. A principal source of dangerous wind shear is the thunderstorm gust front, a cold air outflow from the thunderstorm ...

    • Tornado Vortex Simulation at Purdue University 

      Church, C. R.; Snow, J. T.; Agee, E. M. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      A 4 m wide and 7 m tall tornado vortex generator (including exhaust fan and duct work) has been constructed at Purdue University that operates on a principle similar to that of the earlier machine modeled by Ward (1972). ...

    • The Dulles Airport Acoustic-Microwave Radar Wind and Wind Shear Measuring System 

      Hardesty, R. M.; Mandics, P. A.; Beran, D. W.; Strauch, R. G. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      Wind shear has been recognized as a major aviation hazard in the airport environment. A dual, acoustic Doppler microwave Doppler radar system has been installed at Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C., to ...

    • Summary of the Sessions on Problems in Forecasting, AMS 57th Annual Meeting, 18–19 January 1977, Tucson, Ariz. 

      Pielke, Roger A. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      No abstract

    • Presidential Address: Retiring President's Remarks at the AMS 57th Annual Meeting, 19 January 1977, Tucson, Ariz. 

      Unknown author (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      No abstract available.

    • Hallstrles 

      Towery, Neil G.; Morgan, Griffith M. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      Aerial photographs of crop-hail damage areas have revealed a smaller-scale feature of damage patterns than has previously been reported. These features, called ?hailstripes,? are long, narrow (15?30 m width) stripes of ...

    • Environmental Impacts of Precipitation Management: Results and Inferences from Project Skywater 

      Howell, Wallace E. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      Recent completion of several research projects into weather modification impacts on the environment provides an opportunity for placing this subject in a new perspective. Studies of physical and biological processes relating ...

    • Digital Satellite Imagery in Industrial Meteorology 

      Bristor, C. L.; Raynore, W. L. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      Digital imagery is currently available from geostationary satellites and will be available from new polar orbiters in the near future. Stable, wide-range responses in two or more channels, all in digital form, present ...

    • Afterword 

      Schereschewsk, Philippe L. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      No abstract available.

    • The Value of a Long-Range Weather Forecast for the West African Sahel 

      Glantz, Michael (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      This paper is a study of the political, economic, social, and environmental implications for the West African Sahel of a long-range weather forecast. People representing several disciplines and fields of endeavor were asked ...

    • Potential Use of Applied Meteorology in Energy Conservation Programs 

      Murphy, B. L.; Schulman, L. L.; Mahoney, J. R. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      This study analyzes nine areas of the national economy in terms of their potential for energy conservation through the use of applied meteorological services. In addition to a quantitative estimate for the potential energy ...