WEATHER NOTE: FUNNEL CLOUDS IN HAWAII

Diurnal Weather Patterns on Oahu and Lanai, Hawaii

WEATHER FORECASTING in the Pacific area has been predominantly aimed at serving airplane operations. On the other hand, little or no developmental work has been done to provide bases for weather forecasts for agriculture. In Hawaii the two largest industries are agricultural-the growing of sugar cane and pineapples. Techniques and organization to provide both longand short-range forecasts would...

NOTE / NOTE Mushroom crops in relation to weather in the southwestern Yukon

Epigeous mushroom production in the boreal forest ecosystem varies dramatically from year to year. We tested the hypothesis that the aboveground production of epigeous mushrooms in the Kluane region, Yukon, could be predicted by summer rainfall. There is a single crop in this part of the boreal zone with maximum production during the first 2 weeks of August. We measured standing crops from 1993...

Funnel plots in meta-analysis

Funnel plots are a visual tool for investigating publication and other bias in meta-analysis. They are simple scatterplots of the treatment effects estimated from individual studies (horizontal axis) against a measure of study size (vertical axis). The name “funnel plot” is based on the precision in the estimation of the underlying treatment effect increasing as the sample size of component stu...

The representation of clouds and convection in weather forecasting and climate models

Description of Mixed-Phase Clouds in Weather Forecast and Climate Models

This project takes its cue from field experiments, mostly from the Arctic Summer Cloud Ocean Study (ASCOS), which was a summer expedition on the Swedish icebreaker Oden during the summer of 2008 as part of the International Polar Year, and a new expedition scheduled for the summer of 2014, also on the icebreaker Oden: the Arctic Cloud in Summer (or ACSE) experiment, which is a part of a larger ...