Science Spotlights
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Small-scale Vortices Enhanced Winds and Damage in Hurricane Harvey
Severe but highly variable wind damage to homes & infrastructure is a hallmark of intense tropical cyclones. Until recently there...
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The New Capital of Lightning
Imagine being awoken late one night by the near constant glow of lightning overhead—often flickering silently but occasionally rumbling deeply...
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AMS Summer Policy Colloquium–An Investment in Your Future
One of the special, life-shaping mid-career experiences AMS offers is the Summer Policy Colloquium in Washington, D.C. The AMS Policy...
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A New Metric for Hurricane Destruction Potential
Hurricanes Katrina (2005), Ike (2008), and Sandy (2012) have proven the Saffir-Simpson Scale is inadequate for expressing hurricane destructiveness. This...
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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...
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State of the Union Address Sets Stage for Senate Climate Hearing Today
If, last night, you made it through the usual State of the Union appeals to bipartisanship, tax reform, health care,...
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Policy Symposium Keynote to Focus on Tree-Climate Connnections
by Caitlin Buzzas, AMS Policy Program The keynote speaker for the 8th Symposium on Policy and Socio-Economic research at the AMS...
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A Summer Spent Studying Disagreements
Washington State University just published a profile of Rodrigo Gonzalez, a graduate student in the Laboratory for Atmospheric Research (LAR)...
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Dealing With a Challenging Science Policy Environment
by William Hooke, AMS Policy Program Director. Adapted from posts (here, here, here, and here) on the AMS Project, Living on...
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Policy Buzz: Senate Hearing Follows Tornado Outbreak
by Caitlin Buzzas, AMS Policy Program On May 3, Dr. William Hooke, Director of the AMS Policy Program, testified before...
