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:
- The Grape Remote Sensing Atmospheric Profile and Evapotranspiration Experiment by W. P. Kustas et al.
- Predicting Near-Term Changes in the Earth System: A Large Ensemble of Initialized Decadal Prediction Simulations Using the Community Earth System Model by S. G. Yeager
- WUDAPT: An Urban Weather, Climate, and Environmental Modeling Infrastructure for the Anthropocene by J. Ching et al.
- Integrating Data Rescue into the Classroom by C. Ryan et al.
- A Paper on the Tropical Intraseasonal Oscillation Published in 1963 in a Chinese Journal by T. Li et al.
- Provision of Climate Services for Agriculture: Public and Private Pathways to Farm Decision-Making by T. Haigh et al.
- GHOST: A Satellite Mission Concept for Persistent Monitoring of Stratospheric Gravity Waves Induced by Severe Storms by D. M. Tratt et al.
- Observations for Reanalyses by S. Brönnimann 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.