Spotlight: Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective
This 5th edition of BAMS special report presents assessments of how climate change may have affected the strength and likelihood of individual extreme events in 2015. Access the high-resolution report, individual chapters, or reports from past years here.
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What's New?
AMS Education
The AMS Education Program announced the third School of Ice advanced professional development program for minority-serving institution faculty, June 25-29, 2017 at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. Participants will interact with many of the US Ice Drilling Program Office scientists and will experience ice core processing in the ice core lab at Dartmouth among other exciting lab experiences and activities.
AMS Letter of support
Read AMS’s joint letter of support to Secretary of Commerce Pritzker concerning possible sharing of satellite spectrum.
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Change in AMS Journals policy
Beginning with the January 2017 issues of AMS journals, the embargo period for journal content will be reduced from two years to one year. Read more details in AMS Publications Commissioner Robert Rauber’s editorial.
ClimatePolicy.org re-launched
The AMS Policy Program is happy to announce the re-launch of its website Climatepolicy.org which presents climate science and climate policy accurately and clearly for anyone who wishes to better understand the topic. You can also explore new content on its affiliated blog.
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2017 AMS Specialty Meetings
We hope to see you in the New Year at one of our upcoming 2017 specialty conferences!
AMS 2017 Washington Forum
2-4 May 2017, Washington DC
Pre-Registration Deadline: 7 April 2017
45th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology*
Fourth Conference on Weather Warnings and Communication*
21–23 June 2017, Kansas City, Missouri
Abstract Deadline: 14 February 2017
Pre-Registration Deadline: 10 May 2017
21st Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
19th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
26–30 June 2017, Portland, Oregon
Abstract Deadline: 1 March 2017
Pre-Registration Deadline: 19 May 2017
23rd Conference on Applied Climatology
26–28 June 2017, Asheville, North Carolina (not online yet)
Abstract Deadline: 27 February 2017
Pre-Registration Deadline: 15 May 2017
17th Conference on Mesoscale Processes
24–28 July 2017, San Diego, California
Abstract Deadline: 22 March 2017
Pre-Registration Deadline: 14 June 2017
30th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
24th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences
16th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
28–29 July 2017, Baltimore, Maryland (not online yet)
Abstract Deadline: 21 March 2017
Pre-Registration Deadline: 15 June 2017
2017 AMS Summer Community Meeting
2–3 August 2017, Madison, Wisconsin
Pre-Registration Deadline: 7 July 2017
38th Conference on Radar Meteorology*
27 August–1 September 2017, Chicago, Illinois
Abstract Deadline: 14 April 2017
Pre-Registration Deadline: 21 July 2017
*Includes Exhibit Program
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Careers
The AMS Career Center connects employers in the weather water and climate community with job seekers. Current opportunities include:
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Glossary Word of the Month
Corpuscular theory of light – The hypothesis, by Sir Isaac Newton, that light consists of a stream of minute particles emitted by luminous bodies at very high velocities, and that the sensation of light is due to the bombardment of the retina of the eye by these particles..
Investigate other terms in the online AMS Glossary of Meteorology.
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