AMS Programs, Perspectives
Obama Backs Weather Funding in Opening Bid
by George Leopold, AMS Policy Program While it remains far from clear whether the Obama administration will gain final congressional...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Infrastructure and Resilience
Last week, Bracken Hendricks, Cathleen Kelly, and Adam James of The Center for American Progress released a well-crafted report entitled...
NWS Experiment Chooses Words To Improve Warnings
The National Weather Service recently announced plans to expand the use of its experimental impact-based storm warnings to include all...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Earth observations, science, and services: How good is good enough?
Writing for the AMS blog The Front Page, Ellen Klicka posted a nice article building on last week’s AMS Washington...
AMS Programs, Perspectives
The Value of Knowing Our Value
by Ellen Klicka, AMS Policy Program Sometimes articulating the right question is the tipping point on the path to the...
Checking the Sky for the Long Ball
In Major League Baseball today, pitchers are kings. Hits per games have decreased for six straight years, while strikeouts per...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Civil War
“The first casualty when war comes is the truth.” – U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson, 1918 America’s Civil War was, by...
From AMS Journals, Perspectives
Budget Squeeze Spurs U.S. Weather Collaboration
by George Leopold, AMS Policy Program The watchword for future federal weather efforts will be collaboration. Budget sequestration has so...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Drones as Gap Fillers
a follow-up on drones from George Leopold… NOAA is moving out smartly on several fronts to help deploy robotic airplanes...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
What happens when everyone “leans in?”
Sheryl Sandburg, the Chief Operating Officer at Facebook, has become an overnight sensation, and deservedly so, for her new book,...
