AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY | 1423 AFFILIATIONS: GUTZLER AND RITCHIE—University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico; KIM, HIGGINS, MO, SCHEMM, AND SONG—Climate Prediction Center, NCEP/NWS/NOAA, Camp Springs, Maryland; KANAMITSU—Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California; JUANG, MITCHELL, AND YANG—Environmental Modeling Center, NCEP/NWS/...

Generalised obesity is increasing in prevalence globally, however trends in abdominal obesity are less well known. In 2003, 1,999 women of childbearing age participated in the Croatian Adult Health Survey, of whom 598 (29.9%) participated in the second cycle in 2008. For 2008, the prevalence of abdominal obesity using the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) criterion (waist circumference > ...

This study investigates the resonated diurnal impact of surface wind forcing from several atmospheric products, including CCMP (Cross-Calibrated Multi-Platform), ERA Interim, NCEP-2 (NCEP-DOE AMIP-II Reanalysis), MERRA (Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Application), NARR (Northern American Regional Reanalysis) NAM (North Mesoscale Forecast System), on wind-driven near-inertial...

Solar radiation is a critical variable in global change sciences. While most of the current global datasets provide only the total downward solar radiation, we aim to develop a method to estimate the downward global land surface solar radiation and its partitioned direct and diffuse components, which provide the necessary key meteorological inputs for most land surface models. We developed a si...

The breeding method has been used to generate perturbations for ensemble forecasting at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (formerly known as the National Meteorological Center) since December 1992. At that time a single breeding cycle with a pair of bred forecasts was implemented. In March 1994, the ensemble was expanded to seven independent breeding cycles on the Cray C90 super...

This paper outlines the basic concept and mathematical formulation of the Local Ensemble Kalman Filter (LEKF, Ott et al. 2002 and 2003) data assimilation scheme. Some important properties of the scheme are illustrated by numerical experiments with the Lorenz-96 model. Initial implementations of the LEKF on the National Centers for Environmental Prediction Global Forecast System (NCEP GFS) are d...