Recently added articles from Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society:
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: THE NEW OCEAN
Sep 01, 2009; ... Covering more than 70% of the Earth's surface, and in places deep enough to swallow even the greatest mountains, the oceans are undeniably the dominant feature of our planet. Because they are so vast and overwhelming the oceans are impressive, inspiring, and still full of questions that ...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Sep 01, 2009; ... THE CHALLENGE TO MAINTAIN NETWORKS AND PRESERVE DATA First of all, applause is due to publishing in BAMS a report by Cuban colleagues (Antuna et al., Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc, 89, 1507-1511, 2008) after decades of isolation. It stimulates reflections and arouses memories. We are ...
STUDY FINDS SOME SMALL RAINDROPS FASTER THAN LARGE
Sep 01, 2009; ... Physicists from Michigan Technological University and the National University of Mexico studied a whole lot of raindrops approximately 64,000 - to come to a surprising conclusion. Some smaller raindrops can fall faster than larger ones, bucking the traditional thinking on falling rain in the ...
TAPPING WIND POWER AT HIGH ALTITUDES
Sep 01, 2009; ... High-altitude winds have been shown to be a powerful energy source, but one that has yet to be utilized. A new study by scien- tists at the Carnegie Institution and California State University looked into regions that could take advantage of this wind power, which would be far stron- ger than ...
A CO2 STORE IN THE NORTH SEA
Sep 01, 2009; ... When searching for a location to store carbon dioxide (CO2), Europe may want to look to the north - the North Sea, that is. A recent study jointly commissioned by the Scottish Centre for Carbon Storage (comprising the British Geological Survey, Heriot Watt University, and the University of ...