2012-05-24T14:52:51Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/meteorology-and-weather.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP190.html Jul 18, 2007 Jul 18, 2007

Many businesses along the Gulf of Mexico coast have had a difficult time obtaining wind insurance coverage since Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma hit in 2005 and have often ended up paying more than twice as much for the insurance as they did previously.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2004/09/16/TP.html Sep 16, 2004 Sep 16, 2004

Published commentary by RAND staff.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030702.html Dec 31, 2002 Dec 31, 2002

<p>Poor parents and their children spend less on and eat less food during cold-weather budgetary shocks. Existing social programs fail to buffer against these shocks.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/notes/N2457.html Dec 31, 1987 Dec 31, 1987

This Note documents historical periods of Central European weather that reliably typify average weather conditions for any chosen season.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/notes/N2551.html Dec 31, 1986 Dec 31, 1986

Certain weather variables exercise an important control over space operations, either by making a launch infeasible or by adversely affecting the space vehicle and its trajectory.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM4572.html Dec 31, 1964 Dec 31, 1964

A basic problem in astrophysics, meteorology, and neutron transport theory is the determination of the internal intensity produced when uniform parallel rays illuminate a slab of finite thickness which both absorbs and scatters radiation isotropicall...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P3234.html Dec 31, 1964 Dec 31, 1964

The principal methods for predicting upper atmosphere conditions are contrasted with the methods of forecasting employed in tropospheric meteorology. Standard model atmospheres can be considered analogous to synoptic weather maps, but the principal ...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3950.html Dec 31, 1962 Dec 31, 1962

A survey of the middle and vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopy of the upper atmosphere. The various physical and chemical processes involved in the interaction of radiation with the atoms and molecules of the upper atmosphere are reviewed, and the ultra...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM2902.html Dec 31, 1961 Dec 31, 1961

Part of a broader investigation concerned with the diffuse reflection in an inhomogeneous layer of atmosphere. Such problems are of current interest in the fields of meteorology and astrophysics, and the detection of nuclear blasts. This memorandum...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19621201.html Dec 31, 1961 Dec 31, 1961

<p>The author responds to a letter critique of a co-written paper on Utility of Weather Forecasts to the Raisin Industry, that described a model and methods of applying weather information to an industry.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19610302.html Dec 31, 1960 Dec 31, 1960

<p>The authors reply to comments made by J. M. Malville on the movement of geomagneticall trapped radiation toward lower latitudes on the night side of the earth in relation to observed dumping of auroral particles near magnetic midnight.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19610301.html Dec 31, 1960 Dec 31, 1960

<p>Upper air densities obtained by means of rockets and satellites in the region from 100 to about 800 km are presented.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19610401.html Dec 31, 1960 Dec 31, 1960

<p>Solar stream distortion of the geomagnetic field, polar auroras, electrojets.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19530201.html Dec 31, 1952 Dec 31, 1952

<p>The year 1951-1952 has been a significant one in the history of upper-atmosphere research, not because of any single revelation but because a large number of important research projects started shortly after the end of World War II are reaching fruition and being reported. This report serves as a brief and very general review of the activity in this broad field.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19490401.html Dec 31, 1948 Dec 31, 1948

<p>This paper contains a discussion of the principle of operation of cw Doppler search radar systems and an analysis of their performance capabilities</p>