Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) is the flagship magazine of AMS and publishes articles of interest and significance for the weather, water, and climate community as well as news, editorials, and reviews for AMS members.
Featured in the Latest Issue
A selection of peer-reviewed, open access articles offered on Journals Online:
- Capability of the SMAP Mission to Measure Ocean Surface Winds in Storms by T. Meissner et al.
- A Look at 2016: Takeaway Points from the State of the Climate Supplement by J. Blunden and D. Arndt
- Build Your Own Earth: A Web-Based Tool for Exploring Climate Model Output in Teaching and Research by D. M. Schultz et al.
- SHARPpy: An Open-Source Sounding Analysis Toolkit for the Atmospheric Sciences by. W. G. Blumberg et al.
- The Weather Research and Forecasting Model: Overview, System Efforts, and Future Directions by J. G. Powers et al.
- Introducing the New Generation of Chinese Geostationary weather Satellites, Fengyun-4 by J. Yang et al.
- The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission for Science and Society by G. Skofronick-Jackson et al.
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Additional BAMS Publications
State of the Climate
This is the only annual peer-reviewed check-up of the world’s climate health. Each July in this BAMS Supplement, more than 400 scientists worldwide provide detailed updates on global climate indicators, notable weather events, and other data collected on land, water, ice, and in space.
Explaining Extreme Events
In this annual supplement to BAMS, NOAA curates an array of fast-response research on how climate change affected that year’s extreme weather and climate events.
Front Page Blog
An extension of the magazine, the blog relays news about research and relates science to the current events and trends amongst members and interested readers everywhere.