Recently added articles from Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society:

IN MEMORIAM

Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... WILLIAM ELLIOTT 1928-2008 ROGER H ....

ABOUT OUR MEMBERS

Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Bill Read has been named the new director of NOAA's Tropical Prediction Center in Miami, which includes the National Hurricane Center and two other divisions. Read has served as the center's acting deputy director since August 2007. In July 2003, Read and his team were at the forefront ...

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: MORE TO SCIENCE THAN MEETS THE EYE

Apr 01, 2008; Rosenfeld, Jeff ... The title of Rebecca Morss and Fuqing Zhang's article, "Linking Meteorological Education to Reality," should raise an eyebrow or two. Of all the physical sciences, isn't meteorology the least likely to be shackled to abstraction? The weather is right outside your window every day. Morss ...

RAIN SLOWS DOWN ON WEEKENDS IN SOUTHEAST

Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The effect of work-week pollution on weekly weather patterns has been a topic of research for some time. Providing new evidence that bolsters a pollution-precipitation connection, recent rainfall data recorded from space indicate that summertime storms in the southeastern United States shed more ...

BLAME IT ON THE WIND

Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Wild weather in Redding, California, in January kept animal control officers on their toes as an increased number of loose dogs were reported. Wind gusts reported at 80 mph knocked down fences and gates and sent the animals roaming. Because wind and thunder were in the forecast, it was a ...

ICE CORE PROJECT TO PROVIDE DETAILED CLIMATE RECORDS

Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... In February, researchers finished up the first season of an unprecedented, multiyear effort to retrieve the most detailed record of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere over the last 100,000 years. Working as part of the National Science Foundation's West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide ...

WE BUILT THIS CITY . . . ON RENEWABLE ENERGY

Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The first zero-carbon city in the world may sound like something out of a science-fiction movie: instead of cars, transportation will consist entirely of light rail and automated "pods" that act like small, driverless taxis. But the city is becoming a reality, with construction having begun in ...

STUDY SAYS TIPPING POINTS ARE NEAR

Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The complete loss of summer Arctic sea ice, a significant reduction of Amazonian rainfall, and the intensification of El Niño events are some of the scenarios that are impending if current temperature increases continue, according to a recent article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

SOME CORAL REEFS MAY RECEIVE NATURAL SAFEGUARD

Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... A new study suggests that a natural ocean mechanism helps to protect coral reefs in warm-ocean areas by moderating ocean temperatures. Published recently in Geophysical Research Letters, the research provides insight into the theory of a natural "thermostat" in the ocean that prevents sea ...

MORE SATELLITES TO BOLSTER GLOBAL OBSERVING SYSTEM

Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Meteorological and space organizations from around the world recently agreed to support the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)'s proposal to enhance the Global Observing System (GOS) of satellites. The goal of the GOS is to assist in the monitoring of the atmosphere and ocean surfaces for ...

ALERT LINE INTERRUPTED

Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... It may sound like fodder for a book plot, but officials in Indonesia believe that the deliberate removal of a tsunami detection system is not fiction. The Deep-Ocean Assessment and Reporting Tsunami (DART), installed to help predict tsunamis, is believed to have been disabled on purpose. Ridwan ...

WATCHING OUT FOR ROGUE WAVES

Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... A recently developed software tool provides valuable new information on the development and movement of rogue waves, which can appear in calm seas without warning and reach heights of more than 30 m. While current methods of detecting and monitoring these waves only gauge them at a single point ...

TURTLES ON ICE

Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Recent warm winters in England have been posing a problem for tortoises. When the reptiles hibernate through winter, they need to maintain a body temperature between 3° and 5°C. If it rises above 5°C, the tortoises will wake up. Once awakened, they are at risk of dying from subsequent drops in ...

THE MY NASA DATA PROJECT

Apr 01, 2008; Chambers, L H; Alston, E J; Phelps, C S; Moore, S W; Diones, D D; Oots, P C; Fischer, J D; Mims, F M III ... Locating the right dataset, then figuring out how to use it, is a daunting task in Earth system science. Nonetheless, this process is essential to exploring authentic Earth system science data, and thus to inquiry-based education, which is an important goal in U.S. K-12 national education ...

TOTAL LIGHTNING SIGNATURES OF THUNDERSTORM INTENSITY OVER NORTH TEXAS

Apr 01, 2008; Steiger, Scott M; Orville, R E; Carey, L D ... Total [intracloud (IC) and cloud-to-ground (CG)] lightning data have given several insights into thunderstorm kinematics, dynamics, and microphysics over the last decade. These data have a greater temporal and sometimes spatial resolution compared to radar data, which has led to further ...

MORPHOLOGY OF EYEWALL LIGHTNING OUTBREAKS IN TWO CATEGORY 5 HURRICANES

Apr 01, 2008; Squires, Kirt; Businger, Steven ... The convective structure of the eyewall of a mature hurricane can provide valuable information about changes in storm intensity. The Dvorak method, which uses satellite signatures of cloud tops to estimate tropical cyclone intensity, keys in on this observation. Lightning strike rates produced ...

ARE ATLANTIC TROPICAL CYCLONES REALLY INCREASING IN NUMBER, INTENSITY?

Apr 01, 2008; Briggs, William M ... While physical models can explain why tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic might have changed in number or character, only probability models can say if they have so changed. But not any probability model will do: a constant danger of plotting the number of hurricanes against a running mean ...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHARES DIGITAL FORECASTS USING WEB SERVICES

Apr 01, 2008; Schattel, John L Jr; Bunge, Robert ... In 2006, the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) declared its first-ever Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Web service (http://weather. gov/forecasts/xml) operational. Now, Web-applications developers can use Internet standards such as Extensible Markup Language (XML) and SOAP to access the ...

RADAR ANALYSIS USING GR2ANALYST

Apr 01, 2008; Collins, Jennifer M ... Examining severe weather signatures through radar analysis using the software GR2Analyst was the topic of discussion for the November meeting of the West Central Florida chapter. Andy JohnsonFOX 13 (WTVT, Tampa) meteorologist, chapter president, and presenter-explained the difference between ...

Parameterization of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Apr 01, 2008; Teixeira, J; Stevens, B; Bretherton, C S; Cederwall, R; Doyle, J D; Golaz, J C; Holtslag, A A M; Klein, S A; Lundquist, J K; Randall, D A; Siebesma, A P; Soares, P M M ... A View from Just Above the Inversion One of the main components of the climate system is the atmospheric boundary layer, which mediates the interactions between the ocean/land surface and the free atmosphere. Several boundary layer processes are known to have a profound influence on the ...