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3 unusual facts about American Meteorological Society


Joseph O. Fletcher

In 2005, he was awarded the honorary membership of the American Meteorological Society.

KFSN-TV

Doug Collins (member, AMS; member, NWA) - meteorologist; weekday mornings on Action News A.M. Live (4:30-7) and weekdays at 11 a.m.

Time Warner Cable News Capital Region

Mike Bono (AMS Seal of Approval) - chief meteorologist; weekday evenings and overnight loop


Helmut Landsberg

Among his notable honors were the William Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union (1978), the Outstanding Achievement in Bioclimatology Award (1983) and the Cleveland Abbey Award (1983) of the American Meteorological Society, and the National Medal of Science (1985), presented to him by US President Ronald Reagan.

IPCC Second Assessment Report

The position of the lead author of Chapter 8, Benjamin D. Santer, was supported by fellow IPCC authors and senior figures of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).

James Spann

Spann was countering a statement made by Heidi Cullen, a staff meteorologist with The Weather Channel, who had written that those who disagreed with the view that global warming was caused by man-made events should not be given the Seal of Approval by the American Meteorological Society.

NEXRAD

Atlas, David, Radar in Meteorology: Battan Memorial and 40th Anniversary Radar Meteorology Conference, published by the American Meteorological Society, Boston, 1990, 806 pages, ISBN 0-933876-86-6, AMS Code RADMET.

Surveys of scientists' views on climate change

The scientists polled were members of the American Geophysical Union or the American Meteorological Society and listed in the 23rd edition of American Men and Women of Science, a biographical reference work on leading American scientists.

In 2007, Harris Interactive surveyed 489 randomly selected members of either the American Meteorological Society or the American Geophysical Union for the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) at George Mason University.

A Gallup poll of 400 members of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society along with an analysis of reporting on global warming by the Center for Media and Public Affairs, a report on which was issued in 1992.

WNCN

The WNCN Precision Weather team includes chief meteorologist Wes Hohenstein (AMS Seal of Approval; weeknights at 6:00, 7:00 and 11:00 pm), and meteorologists Alyssa Corfont (AMS and NWA Seals of Approval; Saturdays at 7:00 and weekends at 6:00 and 11:00 pm) and Bill Reh (AMS Seal of Approval; weekday mornings on WNCN Today from 4:30-7:00. Also weekdays at 11:00 am starting January 27).


see also

Deforestation in Brazil

In an American Meteorological Society Journal of Climate, two research meteorologists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Andrew Negri and Robert Adler have analysed the impact of deforestation on climatic patterns in the Amazon using data and observatory readings obtained from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission collected over many years.