Recently added articles from Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society:
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: A LIKELY STORY
Jan 01, 2009; ... In his statistical analysis of North Atlantic tropical cyclone data, Sim Aberson quotes a particularly apt statement about science from a 50-yearold article in Tellus: "The job of a scientist is to invent a story which accounts for a set of observations and then decide how likely the story is." ...
A PARADIGM SHIFT FOR LOCAL NWS HURRICANE OPERATIONS
Jan 01, 2009; ... CONFERENCE NOTEBOOK When hurricane landfall is immi- nent, it becomes critical to provide accurate and timely weather infor- mation to the public at a higher frequency and with greater detail and resolve than is often presently accomplished. Short-fuse bulletins from local NWS Forecast ...
NOWCAST: ECHOES
Jan 01, 2009; ... "The run was open for a day-and-a-half last winter." - OLE HARILD, who built a ski slope on the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, even though the island rarely gets snow and has no hill higher than about 100 meters. After Harild and a friend wanted to go skiing two years ago ...
WARM SOIL SLOWS CO^sub 2^ RELEASE IN MUSHROOMS
Jan 01, 2009; ... Understanding how forests cycle carbon is necessary to accurately predict Earth's warming climate, which is particularly important in northern forests that could be hit hard by the change. When studying mushrooms growing in dry spruce forests covering Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia, and other ...
RUBBER DUCKY, YOU'RE THE ONE
Jan 01, 2009; ... If you're on a boat near Greenland, and you happen to see a rubber duck floating by, don't question your sanity. It's just part of an experiment to study the dynamics of the Jakobshavn Glacier in West Greenland. Alberto Behar of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently put 90 plastic rubber ...
USING ROCKS TO ABSORB CARBON DIOXIDE
Jan 01, 2009; ... Much of the mantle of the Earth, located underneath the crust, is made up of a dense rock called peridotite. Due to the movement of tectonic plates, there are some locations on Earth where peri- dotite has been pushed up to the surface. While scientists have known for some time that such surface ...
WAVES OF WONDER
Jan 01, 2009; ... "The sea was angry that day ...." So begins many a fisherman's tall tale, but for fishermen (and other coastal folk) on a November day in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, the description was apt. A mysterious occurrence produced a series of waves as high as 12 feet that swept into the harbor and damaged ...
ASIAN MONSOONS TIED TO VEGETATION
Jan 01, 2009; ... A new study published in Water Resources Research connects the potency of the summer monsoon season in Asia to the amount of vegetation in the winter and spring in the region, a finding that may significantly improve the predictive ability of monsoon models. Researchers at the University ...
NEW TSUNAMI DEFENSES
Jan 01, 2009; ... Nations bordering the Pacific, Indi- an, and Southern Oceans continue to develop new technology in an effort to prevent a repeat of the devastation caused by the 2004 tsunami, the deadliest in history with more than 220,000 people killed or missing. Australia recently opened the Joint ...
CORRECTING SPURIOUS TRENDS "DOWN UNDER" AND UP ABOVE
Jan 01, 2009; ... PAPERS OF NOTE Australian radiosondes monitor a large area of the Southern Hemisphere, but have experienced so many changes through the years that unadjusted temperature trends of the bulk atmosphere computed from their soundings are suspect. This is of serious concern since ...
RACING THE ELEMENTS
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Original Mountain Marathon, a long distance race in England's Lake District, met its match with the weather this past October. Billed as a grueling event, the course runs 50 miles over mountains as high as 7,054 feet. When heavy rain and high winds engulfed the Lake District, which is about ...
A CABLE-BORNE TRAM FOR ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENTS ALONG TRANSECTS
Jan 01, 2009; ... Quantification of carbon exchange in forest ecosystems requires a unique sampling strategy. Previous studies have found that nocturnal drainage flows in the forest subcanopy space can transport CO2 horizontally, causing flux towers to underestimate the amount of CO2 lost at a particular site ....
THE RAPID RISE AND FALL OF A 6-HOUR HURRICANE
Jan 01, 2009; ... Strong vertical wind shear (>10 m s^sup -1^, 850-200 hPa) usually will weaken even mature hurricanes. Yet, sometimes a tropical cyclone will intensify despite strong shear. Such systems can prove a difficult challenge for forecasters, especially when the unexpected intensity changes happen ...
Social Science Research Needs for the Hurricane Forecast and Warning System
Jan 01, 2009; ... THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH. The 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons awoke the United States to the potential societal impacts of landfalling Atlantic hurricanes. The toll was greater than $175 billion in damage and about 5,400 deaths throughout the Atlantic Basin. While 2006 and 2007 ...
THE EMPEROR HAS NO RAIN
Jan 01, 2009; ... Based on the findings of a recent article in Science, Chinese leaders during some of the nation's longest dynasties may have wished they could have been able to try cloud seeding. The study found that three of the five ruling dynasties that lasted for multiple centuries came to an end after an ...
IN BOX: ECHOES
Jan 01, 2009; ... "More interesting will be to see how people adapt to it." -WILLIAM MITSCH, environmental and natural resources professor at Ohio State University, on the Three Gorges Dam project on the Yangtze River in China. The largest hydroelectric project in the world, it is intended to combine the ...
GLOSSARY OF WEATHER AND CLIMATE
Jan 01, 2009; ... Educators, students, and weather enthusiasts! A glossary of over 3000 terms on weather and climate designed specifically for a general audience! Produced under the Project ATMOSPHERE initiative, the development of The Glossary of Weather and Climate was inspired by increasing contemporary ...
AN INTEGRATED GLOBAL OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE USING SATELLITES AND IN SITU DATA
Jan 01, 2009; ... Research to Operations An iterative process of cost-benefit conscious design and application helped in the formulation of an efficient, effective operation for this U.S. contribution to the Global Climate Observing System. In this article, we describe a research-to-operation and ...
REGIMES OR CYCLES IN TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC
Jan 01, 2009; ... A cautionary tale in which previously published results are shown to be invalid due to the lack of statistical analyses in the original work. Kinsmen (1957) wrote, "the job of a scientist is to invent a story which accounts for a set of observations and then decide how likely the story ...
CIRENE
Jan 01, 2009; ... Air-Sea Interactions in the Seychelles-Chagos Thermocline Ridge Region* A field experiment in the southwestern Indian Ocean provides new insights into ocean-atmosphere interactions in a key climatic region. While easterly trade winds blow year-round over the southern Indian ...