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With Floods or Baseball, It's a Game of Percentages
Perhaps no one thought that Game 5 of the World Series would end the way it did. It started with...
Persisting Gender Gap for Weathercasters
While the ranks of women weathercasters are growing slowly, they continue to lag behind their male colleagues in job responsibilities. A new study to...
Standing Up for the Integrity of Science
by Keith Seitter, AMS Executive Director In carrying out its mission, AMS provides a broad range of support for the...
Perspectives
Building AMS Community, Maximizing Value of Our Information
by Douglas Hilderbrand, Chair, AMS Board on Enterprise Communication Early August seems forever ago. Hurricanes Maria, Irma, and Harvey were...
Peer Review Week 2017: 4. Shifting Demands of Integrity
For Journal of Hydrometeorology Chief Editor Christa Peters-Lidard, peer review upholds essential standards for a journal. “Maintaining that integrity is very...
Peer Review Week 2017: 3. Transparency Is Reproducibility
David Kristovich, chief editor of the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, explains how AMS peer review process, as a somewhat private process,...
Peer Review Week 2017: 2. What Makes a Good Review?
At the AMS Annual Meeting panel on Peer Review last January, journal editors Tony Broccoli, Carolyn Reynolds, Walt Robinson, and...
Peer Review Week 2017: 1. Looking for Reviewers
It’s natural that AMS–an organization deeply involved in peer review–participates in Peer Review Week 2017. This annual reflection on peer review...
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Disaster Do-Overs
Ready to do it all over again? Fresh on the heels of a $100+ billion hurricane, we very well may be...
The Trouble with Harvey: Hurricane Intensification Dilemmas
Hurricanes like rapidly-changing Harvey are still full of surprises for forecasters. The remnants of Caribbean Tropical Storm Harvey made a startling...
