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Downloaded 10/04/21 06:50 AM UTC 308 Vol Bulletin American Meteorological Society 303 The development of Doppler weather radars (Gray Gray, G. R., R. J. Serafin, D. Atlas, R. E. Rinehart, and J. J. et al., 1975) that can detect tornado vortices presents an Boyajian, 1975: Real-time color Doppler radar display. exciting opportunity to develop very effective tornado Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 56, 581-588. warning systems. As in the case of the visual sightings, Hering, W. S., H. A. Brown, and H. S. Muench, 1972: Meso- the Doppler radar can detect the phenomenon itself, scale forecast experiments. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 53, and it has the advantages that the incipient tornadoes 1180-1183. can be detected aloft well before touching ground (Don- Howe, O. M., 1974: Tornado path sizes. J. Appl. Meteor., 13, aldson, 1975), and detection can be made both day 343-347. and night. It is almost certain that the severe weather Mogil, H. M., 1974: Evaluation of severe weather and thun- forecaster working with Doppler information will also derstorm forecasts using manually digitized radar data and the SELS severe weather log. Preprints, Fifth Conference on have to make fast analyses and fast decisions; he will Weather Forecasting Analysis, Boston, Amer. Meteor. Soc., welcome computer guidance. Without speculating on the 270-275. form of this guidance, we can say that "radar plus com- Moore, P. L., A. D. Cummings, and D. L. Smith, 1974: The puter (plus forecaster?) equals fast diagnosis and National Weather Service manually digitized radar program warning." and its application to precipitation probability forecast- References ing. Preprints, Fifth Conference on Weather Forecasting and Analysis, Boston, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 69-74. Austin, G. L., and A. Bellon, 1974: The use of digital weather National Climatic Center, 1972: Climatological Data, Na- radar records for short-term precipitation forecasting. tional Summary, 23, NOAA Environ. Data Service, Ashe- Quart. J. Rev. Meteor. Soc., 100, 658-664. Blackmer, R. H., R. O. Duda, and R. Rebah, 1973: Applica- ville, N.C. tion of pattern recognition techniques for digitized weather , 1974: Storm Data, 16, NOAA Environ. Data Service, radar. Final Report Contract 1-36072, Stanford Res. Inst., Asheville, N.C. Menlo Park, Calif. Newspaper Enterprise Association, 1974: The World Alma- Donaldson, R. J., Jr., 1975: History of a tornado vortex nac, New York, N.Y., p. 1022. traced by plan shear indicator. Preprints, 16th Radar Waldvogel, A., 1974: The N0 jump of raindrop spectra. J. Meteorology Conference, Boston, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 80-82. Atmos. Sci., 31, 1067-1078. announcements Aviation weather publications available were revised by C. Hugh Snyder, former NWS Training Coordinator, and his staff at the FAA Academy in Oklahoma Aviation Weather, a joint publication of NOAA and the City. When Mr. Snyder, a member of the AMS, was awarded Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has undergone a a Department of Commerce Bronze Medal on the occasion complete face-lift since its first appearance in 1965. The of his retirement from the NWS in 1975, his work on these revised version is now available in the form of a two-volume publications was cited among his accomplishments. set: Aviation Weather (AC 00-64) and Aviation Weather Ser- Copies of Aviation Weather and Aviation Weather Ser- vices (AC 00-45). vices are available from the Superintendent of Documents, Aviation Weather is a general text on the principles of U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402 meteorology and their application to aviation operations. It at $4.55 and $1.95 each, respectively. is intended primarily for pilots and flight operations per- sonnel, but also serves as an introductory text on weather for International geophysical calendar for 1976 non-aviation interests. Aviation Weather Services is now a separate publication The International Geophysical Calendar for 1976 has been that discusses services provided to the pilot by National prepared in cooperation with the world scientific community Weather Service and FAA facilities, the structure and inter- and is available from the Environmental Data Service's Na- pretation of weather observations and forecasts, data com- tional Geophysical and Solar Terrestrial Data Center. The munications, and use of analytic and prognostic charts. calendar is issued annually to coordinate solar and geo- The book is also used as a text in the NWS Pilot Weather physical observations and data exchange. Copies of the 1976 Briefer Course and will be updated periodically as new calendar may be obtained from: J. Virginia Lincoln, World products, forecast techniques, and briefing services are de- Data Center A for Solar-Terrestrial Physics, NOAA, Boulder, veloped. Colo. 80302. The volumes, again published jointly by NOAA and FAA, (More announcements on page 340) Unauthenticated | Downloaded 10/04/21 06:50 AM UTC 308 Vol. 57, No. 3, March 1976 Interim Report of METROMEX Studies, NSF GI-38317, complex. Preprints, Fourth Conf. on Weather Modif., 18-21 111. State Water Surv., Urbana, 143-146. Nov., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Amer. Meteor. Soc., 390-395. Semonin, R. G., 1972: Tracer chemical experiments in mid- Uthe, E. E., and P. B. Russell, 1974: Experimental study of west convective clouds. Preprints, Third Conf. on Weather the urban aerosol structure and its relation to urban Modif., 26-29 June, Rapid City, S.D., Amer. Meteor. Soc. climate modification. Bull. Amer. Meteor. 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S., 1972: Dynamically induced meso-scale varia- Environ. Res., Part 3, Atmos. Sci., Rept. BNWL-1950PT3, tions of the urban mixing layer depth. Rept. No. AR104, Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs., Richland, Wash., 140-142. Dept. of Atmos. Resour., Coll. of Eng., Univ. of Wyo., , T. M. Tanner, C. W. Thomas, and N. A. Wogman, Laramie, 30 pp. 1974: The entrainment of tracers near the sides of convec- , and R. A. Dirks, 1974: Meso-scale variations of the tive clouds. Annual Report for 1973 to U.S. Atomic Energy urban mixing height. Boundary-Layer Meteor., 6, 428-441. Commission, Div. of Biomed. and Environ. Res., Part 3, Spyers-Duran, P., 1972a: Upwind and downwind cloud base Atmos. Sci., Rept. BNWL-1850PT3, Battelle Pacific North- microstructure. University of Chicago Contribution to west Labs., Richland, Wash., 146-147. Project METROMEX-1, Univ. of Chicago, 111., 53-71. , , , , and M. R. Peterson, 1975: Concen- , 1972b: Observations of the cloud nucleus concentra- trations and rates of removal of contaminants from the tion around the St. Louis urban complex. University of atmosphere in and downwind of St. Louis. Annual Report Chicago Contribution to Project METROMEX-1, Univ. of for 1974 to U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Div. of Bio- Chicago, 111., 53-71. med. and Environ. Res., Part 3, Atmos. Sci., Rept. BNWL- , 1974: Cloud condensation nucleus measurements and 1950PT3, Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs., Richland, Wash., estimates of production rates for the St. Louis urban 70-76. (Continued from announcements, page 303) Part II, Oceanography, contains charts for types of tides, cotidal lines, typical tide curves, tide ranges, ocean surface Marine climatic atlas of the world current, and sea and glacier ice. The publication U.S. Navy Marine Climatic Atlas of the Some of the meteorological data presentations have been World, Volume 1, North Atlantic Ocean (Revised 1974) is changed from the 1955 Atlas: wave statistics have been now in print. This volume updates and revises Volume 1 of added, and there are no upper air charts included, since the U.S. Navy Marine Climatic Atlas of the World, 1955 several comprehensive volumes of upper air data have been (NAV AIR 50 1C-528) with nearly 20 additional years of published elsewhere in recent years. meteorological data. Funded and published by the Naval The nearly 400 page volume is for sale by the Superin- Weather Service Command, the new publication is the first tendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, of eight volumes of the Marine Climatic Atlas of the World Washington, D.C. 20402 for $23.90. that the Navy will revise and update. The volume consists of two parts under the same cover: Part I, Meteorology, prepared by the Environmental Data Information sought from industrial meteorologists Service's National Climatic Center; and Part II, Oceanogra- phy, supplied by the U.S. Navy Oceanographic Office. The AMS Committee on Industrial Meteorology is striving Part I, Meteorology, contains monthly charts and supple- to find and fill the needs of those meteorologists whose work mentary graphical presentations for surface elements: wind, is not limited to government or academic activities. Those waves, temperature (air and sea), humidity, precipitation, visi- who fall into this category should write to: Dr. John C. bility, cloud cover and height, and atmospheric pressure. Freeman, Institute for Storm Research, 4104 Mt. Vernon, Part I also includes monthly presentations of tropical cyclone Houston, Tex. 77006. They should include an indication of roses for each 5° quadrangle, extratropical cyclone roses for the topic that they would most like to see discussed in a each 10° quadrangle, and monthly charts showing mean conference on industrial meteorology.
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