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From: Allen Bradley <abradley@phoenix.princeton.edu>
Subject: OK Rainfall & Bermuda High
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:00:57 GMT

I came across an interesting observation on p. 452 of the National Water 
Summary 1988-89 (Floods & Droughts), U. S. Geological Survey Water Supply 
Paper 2375.  It reads:

"[A] large-scale feature in Oklahoma's precipitation delivery system is
the 
Bermuda High.  The Bermuda High ... is largely responsible for the warm
and 
humid conditions that prevail in Texas and Oklahoma in summer ...

The location of the Bermuda high-pressure system substantially affects
late 
summer and fall rainfall.  If the system is south of its normal location, 
polar airmasses can move southward into Oklahoma.  Moisture from the Gulf
of 
Mexico, and occasionally from decaying tropical cyclones, combines with 
southward-moving polar air to cause rainstorms ...

If the Bermuda High occurs north and west of its normal location, drought
can 
occur.  The air is hot and humid, but the upper-air trough, along with 
disturbances necessary for the development of intense thunderstorms stays 
north of Oklahoma."

After talking with the author, I learned that the above is based on 
observations by local (OK) meteorologists.  Though all this seems very 
plausible, I would like to learn more.  In particular, does anyone know
of:

1.  Literature on the relationship between rainfall in the Great Plains
and 
the location of the Bermuda High?

2.  Literature on the behavior of the Bermuda High ("normal" and
anomalies)?

3.  How I can get my hands on time series data for the summer/fall
location of 
the Bermuda High so that I can check all this stuff out myself?

ANY help would be appreciated.

-- Allen

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Allen Bradley   (abradley@phoenix.princeton.edu)
Water Resources Program
Princeton University
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern)
Subject: Re: wet California correlated with solar geophysical activity
Organization: NCAR/UCAR
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:20:28 GMT

On the other hand, my father gives a talk in which he shows these great
graphs correlating solar activity with a) storks nesting in chimneys
in Sweden, and b) the number of papers published by Sidney Chapman.
Correlation != causation.

But it's certainly an interesting correlation.  Want to propose a 
mechanism?

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From: makrisna@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu (Krishna AchutaRao)
Subject: Re: wet California correlated with solar geophysical activity
Organization: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:25:51 GMT
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In article <1993Jan22.172028.150@ncar.ucar.edu> ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern) writes:
>On the other hand, my father gives a talk in which he shows these great
>graphs correlating solar activity with a) storks nesting in chimneys
>in Sweden, and b) the number of papers published by Sidney Chapman.
>Correlation != causation.
>
   I once saw a presentation with a slide showing correlation between sun spots
   and the number of republicans in the senate :-)

>But it's certainly an interesting correlation.  Want to propose a 
>mechanism?

   There is an article in EOS Transactions(volume 74 number 2, Jan 14 1993) by
   George Reid related to this(the climate change, not senate republicans). 
   No mechanism, just discussing solar activity as a possible factor.....
>
>-- 
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Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: szeliga@soils.umn.edu (Tim Szeliga - NWS)
Subject: AVHRR Images posted to alt.binaries.pictures.misc
Summary: AVHRR image of Western US
Keywords: AVHRR NOHRSC satellite
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:29:29 GMT

We got a particularly nice shot of the Western US yesterday,
clearly showing snowcover.

We captured it, calibrated it to brightness and temperature,
registered it to Albers projection, resampled it to 2.2km,
combined bands 1 3 and 4 into a false color composite,
converted it to a JPEG image with PBMplus and cjpeg, uuencoded
it, split it and posted it to  alt.binaries.pictures.misc

The original can be found, as usual, via anon-ftp at 
snow.nohrsc.nws.gov in pub/jpg/westalb.jpg.  

You may have noticed that some of the jpegs have filename like 
01b93027.jpg and others 1b93027.jpg.  The ones with the 
leading zero are contrast normalized by hand, the others are normalized
automatically with pgmnorm.  The automatic ones are brassy, with more 
magenta and cyan than red and blue .  To make the automatic ones, I 
run a single command and sometimes never see the finished product.
To normalize by hand, I have to displace another analyst, display 
on his 24-bit monitor and enhance the contrast of each band.  
Then, the graphics are embedded, the RGB unloaded to an image file
and the JPEG conversion begins.  Slower, more troublesome, but 
the results justify the effort.

Tim Szeliga        tim@snow.nohrsc.nws.gov
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                        Gunter Grass
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: men@colorado.edu (Matthew Newman)
Subject: Re: Rivers in the sky?
Organization: CIRES, University of Colorado
Date: 25 Jan 93 10:16:35
Comments: Hyperbole mail buttons accepted, v3.06.

In article <Jan24.052302.53208@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> kjun@typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu (Pat Fitzpatrick) writes:

> We saw it the article about "Rivers in the air," too, in the local
> paper. I'll have to refrain comment until I see the actual journal
> article ( Geophysical Research Letters hasn't arrived here yet).
> I have seen many instances
> where a journalist has misinterpreted a meteorology subject,
> or just plain got the facts wrong.  The journal will also give a 
> more rigorous description of this subject. Personally, I'm a bit skeptical,
> but who knows........
> 
> Anyway, what I'm really wondering is if anyone knows how the AP picks
> their "weather stories." After all, most articles claim some kind
> of *new* discovery in journals (or they wouldn't be accepted).
> Does the writer plug it to a journalist? Is there a head science
> investigator at AP? Doesn't AP also scout through other major
> papers?
> 
                                            
> Pat Fitzpatrick           

I can't speak in general so much, but in my own experience (I was a
coauthor of an article in Science last year) it's a bit of both.
My university put out a press release, which spurred an article in
the local paper.  On the other hand, Science also put out a press
release (of a few articles in that week's edition, including mine),
and I subsequently got a few calls from the media (including one
from England), who didn't seem to have the facts of my work quite
straight.

Also, as I understand it, AP does have science writers--I suppose they 
might go through all the press releases of different journals, and
look for something interesting.

Matt Newman
men@noaacrd.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
Subject: Re: wet California correlated with solar geophysical activity
Organization: Unocal Corporation
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:11:25 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.163518.13003@unocal.com> stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini) writes:
>
>I've commented several times about this apparent correlation during the six year CA drought
>and predicted wet years were ahead.  The recent solar cycle peaked in mid-1991 at an unusally
>high level, ditto the drought.  The first winter after the peak has had almost normal percipitation,
>the second above normal.  There was a solar cycle maximum and drought 1976-78 in CA too.
>Solar geophysical activity is reported in sci.space.news.
>Based on this hypothesis, normal to above normal percipitation is predicted for CA for the next
>four or five years until the cycle bottoms out.
>Weather correlations in CA do not necessarily apply to other parts of the country or world.

A counter hypothesis for the behavior of past twenty-some years was a
coincidental one-two punch of global warming and global cooling.
The global warming was caused by atomospheric contaminants and predicted
an northward push of Mexican deserts into CA.
The global cooling was caused by Pinatubo and other volcanoes,
still definately noticeable in sunsets.

Two years ago I and some friends were debating whether the unusally long
five year CA drought was due to solar activity or global warming.
I am leaning toward a solar activity explaination these days :-)
(The smilely is beacause we understand so little about climate.)
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: capskb@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu (Keith Brewster)
Subject: Re: SAO question
Originator: usenet@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:32:11 GMT
Organization: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

In article <1993Jan25.173245.680@mlb.semi.harris.com> bath@dw3f.ess.harris.com (Kenneth Bath) writes:
>The following is an example of an AUTO8 SA.
>
>WWA SA 1700 AUTO8 224/6/5/1303/-/0024 2037=
>
>Does anyone know what the "0024" field is following the altimeter setting?  Can
>anyone confirm that "2037" is the appp group?
>


The 0024 is the precipitation accumulation since the last reset.
It is reset to zero at 00,06,12,18z.  Here it is not precipitating at the time
but it had been between 12 and 13z.  When there is no precip it is 
omitted.  Next question: what are the units?  My guess is hundreths of cm,
so 0024 = 00.24 cm =0.10 in.  This station must be in Britsh Columbia then,
because that is the only place getting that much precip (an early ob
had 0216 in 6 hours).  WWA is neither in our obs location database nor
in my FAA US/Canada book -- both of which must be a little out of date.

The 2037 is consistent with the pressure group changes for several obs
so, it looks like it is the 3 hourly appp.

Keith

-----------------------------------------
Keith Brewster
OU School of Meteorology
capskb@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu
From: ymok@solaris.ps.uci.edu (Y. MOK)
Subject: another EL NINO ?
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
Reply-To: ymok@solaris.ps.uci.edu
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 23 Jan 93 01:57:45 GMT


Just a few days ago, I heard that another EL NINO just started
last month.  Can someone confirm this ?

-------------------------------------------------
Y. Mok ;                  ymok@solaris.ps.uci.edu
Department of Physics
University of California, Irvine
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: aggie@wealthy.ocean.fsu.edu (I R A Aggie)
Subject: Re: High Resolution Radiosonde Data??
Followup-To: sci.geo.meteorology
Organization: An Ol Ag surrounded by a bunch of unfriendly Seminoles
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 02:01:01 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.185654.8094@Princeton.EDU>, kph@phoenix.Princeton.EDU
(Kevin P. Hamilton) wrote:
> 
> The radiosonde data that seems generally available are for certain
> standard pressure levels only.  I presume that the actual measurements
> do produce information at higher vertical resolution.  I vaguely 
> recall that higher resolution data was archived from some
> special experiments (Line Islands Experiment?).  I also hear
> that the Australians are now routinely archiving data at very
> high resolution.

1. Define high resolution. 

2. It sounds like you want, at the least, the TTBB data - the
   significant levels. It'll be the best you'll get out of the
   US on a regular basis.

James
From: visser@eedwsa.itwol.bhp.com.au (Martin Visser)
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
Subject: Australian Meteorlogical Information. Where???
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:05:31 GMT

I saw an article in "The Australian" recently regarding meteorlogical data
being available on AARNET. It sounded like full access to the Met Bureau's data
was being made available. Does anyone have any info about this??
-- 
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Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: kph@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kevin P. Hamilton)
Subject: High Resolution Radiosonde Data??
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:56:54 GMT

The radiosonde data that seems generally available are for certain
standard pressure levels only.  I presume that the actual measurements
do produce information at higher vertical resolution.  I vaguely 
recall that higher resolution data was archived from some
special experiments (Line Islands Experiment?).  I also hear
that the Australians are now routinely archiving data at very
high resolution.

I would like to know if higher resolution data are in fact
available in some form (even hardcopy) from routine radiosonde
ascents (at U.S. or other stations).

Any information would be much appreciated.

Kevin Hamilton
kph@phoenix.princeton.edu
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: keller@nsslc.gcn.uoknor.edu 
Subject: Re: Trailer Park Humor (Was: Tornadoes around the world)
Summary:  -Not- in good taste for residents of Andover, KS.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: National Severe Storms Laboratory
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 16:28:00 GMT


>In article <1992Dec18.202619.29890@ncar.ucar.edu> ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec18.170955.17961@serval.net.wsu.edu>, jeffp@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (Jeff Parke) writes:
>>> A friend from Africa said there were no tornadoes there.  Is North America
>>> the only continent where tornadoes ocurr?  If so, why?
>>
> various comments, which the humor-impaired will likely take seriously..

>>Finally, let us not overlook the importance of trailer parks, which
>>serve as "tornadic magnets."  There are far more trailer parks in the
>>US than anywhere else, and these trailer parks are crucial to the
>>formation of tornadoes, as observational evidence indicates that 
>>tornadoes nearly always occur in their vicinity.
>>
> I have always thought that as a weather modification project,
> for tornado dissipation, they (who??) ought to drop trailers
> out of the back of some large cargo plane, like a C5a. This 
> would immediately attract any tornadoes in the area, give them 
> something to chew on (literally), and voila, the problem is
> solved. 

You've all missed the point.  These "bogus" trailers ought to
be fully instrumented so as to collect data on the atmospheric
variables in the immediate vicinity of a strong to violent
tornado.  I am the national head of just such a project (not!).
If you wish to contribute to this project, send me money! :^)

  -- Nah, forget my name --

Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
Subject: Re: wet California correlated with solar geophysical activity
Organization: Unocal Corporation
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:04:24 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.172028.150@ncar.ucar.edu> ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern) writes:
>On the other hand, my father gives a talk in which he shows these great
>graphs correlating solar activity with a) storks nesting in chimneys
>in Sweden, and b) the number of papers published by Sidney Chapman.
>Correlation != causation.
>
>But it's certainly an interesting correlation.  Want to propose a 
>mechanism?

Without sufficient controlled studies most speculations would be akin
to astrology or numeralogy.  However, this is the usenet :-)

Solar energy output varies couple parts in thousand during a cycle.
Perhaps the large oceans are sensitive to this.
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: anpilant@mtu.edu (Andrew A. Pilant)
Subject: Need: SSM/I-to-raster program
Keywords: SSM/I, raster conversion
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 15:43:47 GMT

I'm looking for a public-domain program to convert SSM/I data in R.S.S. Antenna
Temperature Tape format to raster format for image display.  Also, I'd like to 
connect with people using SSM/I for snow/land-surface studies.

Many thanks, in advance-
Drew Pilant
anpilant@mtu.edu
From: landvogt@cs.tu-berlin.de (Walter Landvogt)
Newsgroups: sci.comp-aided
Subject: simulation of ferromagnetic behavior
Date: 21 Jan 1993 08:14:01 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: 'world'
NNTP-Posting-Host: morgen.cs.tu-berlin.de
Summary: ask for advice
Keywords: ferromagnetism, simulation

Better late than never:

   A happy new year to all of you!

Has anybody any experience in simulating the magnetic behavior of
ferromagnetic material in magnetic fields?

MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation offers an analysis system (MSC/EMACS).
- Who works with this system?
- Are there other systems on the market?
- Which are the pros and cons of those systems?

In particular, I'm interested in modelling ferromagnetic properties, so
- How does the hysteresis loop pass into the simulation system?
- How do they deal the shape dependency of the magnetization curve?

I would be thank you for any information which puts me on the right
track.
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Newsgroups: sci.comp-aided
From: anadeem@ampere.sci.bio (Ahmed Nadeem)
Newsgroups: sci.comp-aided
Subject: MRI And CT-SCAN Images Of Dogs?
Date: 27 Jan 93 08:32:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: ampere.ANADEEM.93Jan27013220
Distribution: sci.comp-aided
Organization: /home/ampere1/anadeem/.organization

Netters,
      I am currently working on a research project that involves construction 
of realistic, solid or geometric models for dogs.
      Does anyone know where I can get serial section images( MRI, CT-SCAN, 
etc ) for dogs?
                                                       Thanks,
                                                              Ahmed Nadeem
From: anadeem@ampere.sci.bio (Ahmed Nadeem)
Newsgroups: sci.comp-aided
Subject: Edge Detction And Segmentation Using Khoros And PV-WAVE Software
Date: 27 Jan 93 08:33:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: ampere.ANADEEM.93Jan27013346
Distribution: sci.comp-aided
Organization: /home/ampere1/anadeem/.organization

Netters,
        I am currently working on a research project that involves generating
solid or geometric models from MRI images. Part of the procedure will require 
me to possibly perform Thresholding & Edge Detection on my MRI images in order
to find out which pixels lie on boundaries between two different regions. 
Thus, I would like to have an Image Processing Software package that has good 
Edge Detection and Classification ( Segmentation ) modules/routines.  
        I have heard a lot about Khoros ( University Of New Mexico) and 
PV-WAVE (Precision Visuals) and was curious if other professionals or students
had any experience on how good they are for the above purposes. Suggestions 
on other software packages are also much welcome.
                                                       Thanks,
                                                              Ahmed Nadeem
Newsgroups: sci.econ,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.british,soc.culture.canada
From: kbanaian@bernard.pitzer.claremont.edu (King Banaian)
Subject: Re: EconData/PDG (was network resources for economists)
Organization: Pitzer College
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:46:46 GMT

In article <BEEKMAN.40@econ.umd.edu> BEEKMAN@econ.umd.edu writes:

[a long post about the virtues of EconData]

I won't repost my own comments, but lest anyone think me an ingrate, I 
applaud what INFORUM at Maryland is doing.  They have maintained an archive 
of economic statistics and distribute it FOR FREE to all who ask.  For this 
we should be grateful, and I am.  My post was only to agree that the 
updating of the material is quicker on EBB, and that EBB is provided at 
UMich for free.  Your choice of which source to use should be guided by your 
demands for the data:  recent stats to read and update from are probably 
more easily gotten from EBB, but archival material is best obtained from 
EconData.  If Mr. Beekman takes offense at this, I am sorry, but I was asked 
for my opinion, and this is it.
Newsgroups: sci.econ,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.british,soc.culture.canada
From: PA142548@utkvm1.utk.edu (T. Archer)
Subject: Re: US as No. 1 (3 data books)
Organization: University of Tennessee 
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:54:38 GMT

In article <C1IH0o.MJx@news.chalmers.se> d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se (Bertil Jonell) writes:
>>Official state religions
>
>  I'd rather live in a secularized country with a state religion than in a
>religious country without a state religion.

I'd rather live in neither:  a country with freedom to express religious 
principles where the state is forbidden to support any of them.  

>
>>Mandatory government/military service
>
>  It teaches people how to handle guns, and handle themselves around guns,
>and is IMHO the single greatest factor in the difference in murder statistics.

How does this follow?  I can see it lowering accident rates, but not murder 
rates.


>
>>Unreasonable (to Americans) search and seizure in the name of
>>public safety
>
>  Like no-knock searches?

Those are currently illegal, dangerous, and a bad idea.  Unfortunately, the 
state has the power to ignore the law.
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