AMS Journals

Tornado Warnings Are Less Likely to Engage Spanish-Speaking Populations

Tornado Warnings Are Less Likely to Engage Spanish-Speaking Populations

December 12, 2025

A new BAMS article finds U.S. Spanish speakers are “less likely than English speakers to receive, understand, and respond to tornado watches and warnings."

“Data Technical Articles” for Open Science

“Data Technical Articles” for Open Science

December 4, 2025

The Journal of Hydrometeorology is now accepting "Data Technical Articles," focused on open data sets. What does this mean for authors and researchers?

Amplified Land-Lake Thermal Contrast May Change Local Weather in a Warmer Climate

Amplified Land-Lake Thermal Contrast May Change Local Weather in a Warmer Climate

December 3, 2025

A summary of “Global Land-Lake Thermal Contrast in a Warming World,” by Heng Lyu (Yale, and Nanjing University of Information...

Lightning Round with AMS Journal Editors

Lightning Round with AMS Journal Editors

November 25, 2025

AMS journal editors play an important role in the process of communicating research ideas, accomplishments, and progress in the sciences...

Global Record in Question: Could Death Valley lose its claim to “world’s hottest place”?

Global Record in Question: Could Death Valley lose its claim to “world’s hottest place”?

November 14, 2025

New analysis of the Death Valley record for hottest weather-related air-surface temperature recorded on Earth suggests the record is “implausible.”

Violence in the Air: Revealing Connections Between Weather and Shootings in NYC

Violence in the Air: Revealing Connections Between Weather and Shootings in NYC

July 31, 2025

A paper in the AMS journal Weather, Climate, and Society examines how multiple meteorological factors interact with rates of gun...

Earth Interactions: Elucidating Earth systems

Earth Interactions: Elucidating Earth systems

May 22, 2025

The AMS Journal Earth Interactions (EI) focuses on interdisciplinary science that examines interactions between different Earth systems, inclusive of human...

The Volunteer Power behind Peer Review

The Volunteer Power behind Peer Review

September 21, 2020

by Tony Broccoli, AMS Publications Commissioner The peer review process is essential for high-quality scientific publication. Most readers of BAMS...

Saildrone’s Science at the Air–Sea Interface

Saildrone’s Science at the Air–Sea Interface

July 23, 2020

  You’ve heard of drones in the air, but how about on the ocean’s surface? Enter Saildrone: A new wind...

Red Proverb at Morning, Meteorologists Take Warning

Red Proverb at Morning, Meteorologists Take Warning

June 3, 2020

Weather proverbs can be useful indicators of real correlations observed over the centuries, but they can also show unwelcome persistence. The phenomenon...