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U.S. CLIVAR Bibliography

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.

 

Science Tidbits    

22 October 2008 - British scientists go cloud-hopping in the Pacific to improve climate predictions

9 October 2008 - Future Risk of Hurricanes: the Role of Climate Change

20 June 2008 - NASA launches satellite to keep a weather, climate eye open

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