Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • NWS's Severe Local Storm Warning and Disaster Preparedness Programs 

      Mogil, H. Michael; Groper, Herbert S. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      Severe local storms (tornadoes, waterspouts, and thunderstorms accompanied by large hail and/or damaging winds) kill more than 100 persons and injure several thousands more, on the average, each year. In an attempt to ...

    • An Investigation of a Kelvin-Helmholtz Billow Cloud 

      Reiss, Nathan M.; Corona, Thomas J. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      An unusual Kelvin-Helmholtz billow cloud was observed and photographed over New jersey. A thorough investigation of the cloud's meteorological environment was made. The cloud was found to be associated with the northern ...

    • Training and Distribution of Ph.D's in Meteorology 

      Bretherton, Francis P. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      An analysis shows the present distribution of employment of the estimated 1200 meteorologists holding doctoral degrees and also the year and field in which they received their training. The author speculates that at present ...

    • Great Historical Events that were Significantly Affected by the Weather: 2, The Year Leading to the Revolution of 1789 in France 

      Neumann, J. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      In spring 1788 a drought struck France and lead to a poor grain harvest and subsequent famine. In July of the same year an intense hailstorm caused additional damage in parts of the country, and the relatively harsh 1788?89 ...

    • Bjerknes Memorial Lecture: The Development and Status of Modern Weather Prediction 

      Reed, Richard J. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      The progress made in weather prediction since national weather services began issuing forecasts is traced and assessed. Specific contributions of J. Bjerknes to this program are pointed out. Lessons learned from the ...

    • Current Capabilities in Prediction at the National Weather Service's National Meteorological Center 

      Fawcett, Edwin B. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      Progress since 1955 in prognosis of synoptic-scale systems at the National Weather Service's National Meteorological Center (NMC) is reviewed. The application of numerical weather prediction (NWP) to the forecasting of ...

    • Energy from the Wind 

      Hewson, E. Wendell (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      No abstract available.

    • On the Status of Hall Suppression 

      Changnon, Stanley A. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      A technology assessment of the future potential of hall suppression and all its possible ramifications in the United States in future years has included an attempt to define the current status of hail suppression. Hall ...

    • Evolution of Cloud Droplet Spectra: The Effect of Nuclei Spectra 

      Squires, P. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      The particles on which cloud drops nucleate are thought to be of mixed and somewhat variable constitution. Consequently, in the discussion of cloud formation, a number of simplifications and approximations are introduced ...

    • Results of the AMS Questionnaire of 1975 

      Kellogg, William W. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      In December 1975 a questionnaire was mailed to the roughly 9000 members of the American Meteorological Society, and more than half responded. The analysis of the answers provides some useful and hitherto unavailable ...

    • Atmospheric Sciences and Problems of Society 

      Winchester, John W. (American Meteorological Society, 1976)
      No abstract available.

    • President's Page 

      Unknown author (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      No Abstract Available

    • Weather Modification in the Soviet Union—1976 

      Battan, Louis J. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
      The U.S.S.R. has a large investment in weather modification research and operations. Major cloud physics experimental facilities exist at the Institute of Experimental Meteorology and at the Institute of Geophysics of the ...

    • Integration of the Planck Blackbody Radiation Function 

      Widger, W. K.; Woodall, M. P. (American Meteorological Society, 1976)
      Integration of the Planck function over almost any band of wavelengths normally of interest to meteorology is shown now to be practical using modern scientific pocket calculators. A graph of the integral and an example are ...

    • A Southern Hemisphere Cold Front Passage at the Equator 

      Parmenter, Frances C. (American Meteorological Society, 1976)
      During mid-July 1975, a strong frontal system crossed into the tropical latitudes of South America. Freezing temperatures were reported in southern Brazil, and the daily thunderstorm activity over the Amazon River Basin ...

    • The Founding of the Institute of Meteorology at the University of Chicago 

      Byers, Horace R. (American Meteorological Society, 1976)
      An intimate glimpse into events at the start of the Institute of Meteorology at the University of Chicago in 1940 is given from the viewpoint of the relatively primitive state of American meteorology at the time. Personalities ...

    • The Thunderstorm Research International Program - 

      Pierce, Edward T. (American Meteorological Society, 1976)
      The Thunderstorm Project of 1946?47 was the first large-scale investigation of thunderstorms; however, the electrical studies included in the project were quite limited. Scientists working in atmospheric electricity have ...

    • History of Industrial Meteorology and Weather Modification 

      Elliott, Robert D. (American Meteorological Society, 1976)
      Industrial meteorologists started providing weather modification services in the late 1940s. The history of the problems and growth of these services from their experimental beginnings to their practical applications in ...

    • Luminous Electrical Phenomena Associated with Nocturnal Tornadoes in Huntsville, Ala., 

      Vaughan, Otha H.; Vonnegut, Bernard (American Meteorological Society, 1976)
      Eyewitness accounts and pictures and presented of the luminous electrical phenomena occurring when severe tornadoes passed through Madison County, Ala.

    • Coastal Meteorological Networks to Determine Effects of Nuclear Plant Cooling Systems 

      Ryznar, Edward; Baker, Dennis G.; Moses, Harry (American Meteorological Society, 1976)
      Twenty-five meteorological stations are in operation inland from two nuclear power plants located on the Lake Michigan shoreline in southwestern lower Michigan. Their purpose is to provide data to enable meteorological ...