This paper describes the details of a National Science Foundation multi-year educational project at the University of Oklahoma (OU). The goal of this comprehensive active-learning and hands-on laboratory program is to develop an interdisciplinary program, in which engineering, geoscience, and meteorology students participate, which forms a community of university scholars. The program is intend...

Now, however, a connection is emerging between warming oceans and severe tropical cyclones. On page 1844, meteorologists report a striking 80% increase worldwide in the abundance of the most powerful tropical cyclones during the past 35 years. The study lends support to another, independent study published just last month that found a similar intensification in the Atlantic and western North Pa...

An international and interdisciplinary Radar Aeroecology Workshop was held at the National Weather Center on 5-6 March 2012 on the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman, OK, USA. The workshop brought together biologists, meteorologists, radar engineers and computer scientists from 22 institutions and four countries. A central motivation behind the Radar Aeroecology Workshop was to foster bett...

A radar data processing system gathers meteorological volumetric radar data by conducting a volume scan. Meteorologists use these radar data to detect thunderstorms. Radar subsystem exists to allow operational meteorologists to focus their attention on the regions of interest within the volumetric radar scan known as storm cells. When a storm is found, a number of parameters are computed. There...

This paper describes the design and implementation of ATMOL: a domain-specific language for the formulation and implementation of atmospheric models. ATMOL was developed in close collaboration with meteorologists at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute KNMI to ensure ease of use, concise notation, and the adoptation of common notational conventions. ATMOL’s expressiveness allows the f...

Effective exploitation of meteorological archives has long been impeded by an inability to rapidly identify relevant data, and by the difficulties of managing the large volume of data involved. We present a new approach to archiving meteorological data that addresses these problems. Our approach is implemented in MetVUW Workbench, a case-based system for intelligent retrieval and display of his...

We review the celebrated Johnson Lindenstrauss Lemma and some recent advances in the understanding of probability measures with geometric characteristics on R, for large d. These advances include the central limit theorem for convex sets, according to which the uniform measure on a high dimensional convex body1 has marginals that are approximately Gaussian. We try to combine these two results t...

When interpreting weather radar images, a meteorologist starts by considering the general appearance of sky conditions, that is, the overall organization and shapes of echoes. On the other hand, automated radar image analysis typically focuses on single pixels. We believe that pixel-by-pixel processing is too local and will irrevocably remain inferior to real meteorologists, which utilize conte...

With the new data collected with polarimetric radars comes a set of new data quality issues and artifacts. It is important for these artifacts to be recognized and understood as such, thereby allowing operational meteorologists to focus on the interpretation of the physically important observations. In this third part of the series, artifacts found in polarimetric radar data are described and e...

The new CD-ROM based European Solar Radiation Atlas (ESRA) is now available. It is published by Les Presses de l’Ecole des Mines de Paris on behalf of the European Commission. This atlas, in 2 volumes, is an instrument dedicated to providing knowledge and aiding exploitation of the solar resources across a wide sweep of Europe, from the Urals to the Azores and from Northern Africa to Polar Circ...