Local and remote effects of mountains on weather: research needs and opportunities
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The findings of the Fourth Prospectus Development Team of the US Weather Research Program are analyzed. The team has investigated research requirements and opportunities in mountain meteorology. It reports that the field has advanced to the point where its knowledge and techniques are already poised for application to practical forecasting. Five areas of study are ready, or almost ready, for immediate productive application, namely, experimental forecasting of topographic circulations, Rocky Mountain lee-side phenomena, orographic precipitation, trapping of cold air in basins and valleys, and collective and multiscale effects of complex terrain.
Publication Name: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0003-0007
Year: 1997
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The Thunderstorm Project: 18th Conference on Severe Local Storms luncheon speech
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The Thunderstorm Project addresses the need for scientific studies of weather phenomena, which as early as 1944 was recognized by the Civil Aeronautics Board following the crash of an American Airlines DC-3 in Kentucky during a thunderstorm. Its launch at the end of World War II was propitious, for there were suitable aircraft and other equipment as well as trained personnel available for a major meteorological research undertaking. One of its most significant findings is the discovery that radar can be employed to detect the most dangerous parts of thunderstorms and guide aircraft to avoid them.
Publication Name: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0003-0007
Year: 1996
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Project exceeds DataStreme Central's expectations
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The DataStreme Project of the American Meteorological Society trains Weather Education Resource Teachers to encourage weather instruction in the K-12 curriculum in their respective home school districts. Around 1,000 teachers were expected to join the DataStream course in 1997, which brings the total number of teachers trained to half of the project's 4,100-teacher goal. The success of the project is attributed to the 13-week distance learning course given to the participants, where the use of electronically transmitted weather data in the study of the atmosphere is emphasized.
Publication Name: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0003-0007
Year: 1997
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