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Publications resulting from the NAME
Process Study
Simona Bordoni and Bjorn Stevens. 2006: Principal
Component Analysis of the Summertime Winds over the Gulf of California:
A Gulf Surge Index, Monthly Weather Review, Volume 134,
Issue 11 pp. 3395–3414
Gutzler, D.S. and Coauthors, 2005: The North
American Monsoon Model Assessment Project: Integrating numerical
modleing into a field-based processed study. BAMS, in
press.
R. W. Higgins and W. Shi. 2005: Relationships
between Gulf of California Moisture Surges and Tropical Cyclones
in the Eastern Pacific Basin. Journal of Climate: Vol.
18, No. 22, pp. 4601–4620.
Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas and Sumant Nigam. 2005:
Warm Season Rainfall Variability over the U.S. Great Plains in
Observations, NCEP and ERA-40 Reanalyses, and NCAR and NASA Atmospheric
Model Simulations. Journal of Climate: Vol.
18, No. 11, pp. 1808–1830.
P. Grady Dixon. 2005: Using Sounding Data
to Detect Gulf Surges during the North American Monsoon. Monthly
Weather Review: Vol. 133, No. 10, pp. 3047–3052.
Kingtse C. Mo, Jae-Kyung Schemm, H. M. H. Juang, R.
Wayne Higgins and Yucheng Song. 2005: Impact of Model
Resolution on the Prediction of Summer Precipitation over the
United States and Mexico. Journal of Climate: Vol.
18, No. 18, pp. 3910–3927.
Gochis, D.J., J.-C. Leal, C.J. Watts, W.J. Shuttleworth,
J. Garatuza-Payan, 2004: Analysis of 2002 and 2003
Warm-season precipitation from the North American Monsoon Experiment
(NAME) Event Rain Gauge Network (NERN). Monthly Weather
Review, 132, pp. 2938-2953.
Gutzler, D.S. and Coauthors, 2004: The North
American Monsoon Model Assessment Project (NAMAP). NCEP/Climate
Prediction Center ATLAS No. 11, 32pp.
David S. Gutzler. 2004: An Index of Interannual
Precipitation Variability in the Core of the North American Monsoon
Region. Journal of Climate: Vol. 17, No. 22,
pp. 4473–4480.
R. W. Higgins, W. Shi and C. Hain. 2004: Relationships
between Gulf of California Moisture Surges and Precipitation
in the Southwestern United States. Journal of Climate: Vol.
17, No. 15, pp. 2983–2997.
Hui Wang and Rong Fu. 2004: Influence of Cross-Andes
Flow on the South American Low-Level Jet. Journal of Climate:
Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 1247–1262.
M. A. Gan, V. E. Kousky and C. F. Ropelewski. 2004:
The South America Monsoon Circulation and Its Relationship to
Rainfall over West-Central Brazil. Journal of Climate:
Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 47–66.
Brant Liebmann, Carolina S. Vera,
Leila M. V. Carvalho, Inés A. Camilloni, Martin P. Hoerling, Dave Allured,
Vicente R. Barros, Julián Báez and Mario Bidegain.
2004: An Observed Trend in Central South American Precipitation. Journal
of Climate: Vol. 17, No. 22, pp. 4357–4367.
Brant Liebmann, George N. Kiladis, Carolina S. Vera,
A. Celeste Saulo and Leila M. V. Carvalho. 2004: Subseasonal
Variations of Rainfall in South America in the Vicinity of
the Low-Level Jet East of the Andes and Comparison to Those
in the South Atlantic Convergence Zone. Journal of Climate:
Vol. 17, No. 19, pp. 3829–3842.
Mapes, Brian E., Thomas Warner, Mei Xu and David Gochis, "Comparison
of Cumulus Parameterizations and Entrainment Using Domain-Mean
Wind Divergence in a Regional Model", Journal of Atmospheric
Sciences, Vol. 61, No. 11, pp. 1284-1295.
Gochis, D.J., J.-C. Leal, C.J. Watts, W.J. Shuttleworth,
J. Garatuza-Payan, 2003: Preliminary diagnostics from
an eventbased precipitation observation network in support
of the North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME). J. Hydrometeor., 4,
pp. 974-981.
Ernesto Hugo Berbery and Michael S. Fox-Rabinovitz.
2003: Multiscale Diagnosis of the North American Monsoon System
Using a Variable-Resolution GCM. Journal of Climate: Vol.
16, No. 12, pp. 1929–1947.