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Norm Macdonald -- Certified Consulting Meteorologist

Publications

In addition to the articles and publications listed below, Norm Macdonald has written numerous popular articles for Natural History Magazine and the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society and other trade journals, and, for the past 5 years, monthly articles on weather for newspapers including the York Weekly (Maine), Portsmouth Herald, (New Hampshire) and Fosters Daily Democrat (Durham, New Hampshire).

Update of "Changing Weather? Facts and Fallacies About Climate Change and Weather Extremes." (With B. Keim) AccuWeather Publication (1998).

"New England Regional Climate Change Impact." Workshop Summary Report. University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire. (1997)

"Changing Weather? Facts and Fallacies About Climate Change and Weather Extremes." (With J. Sobel.) AccuWeather Publication (1995).

"New Findings on the Apparent Relationship Between Convective Activity and the Shape of 500mb Troughs." (With T.S. Glickman and F. Sanders.) Monthly Weather Review 105 (1977)

"On the Apparent Relationship Between Convective Activity and the Shape of 500mb Troughs." Monthly Weather Review 12 (1976): 1618-1622.

"A Possible Association Between Convective Activity and 'Tilting Troughs'." (With F. Ward.) Rivista Italiana DeGeofesca 23 (1974): 79-81.

"The Relation Between the Average Motion of Cyclones and Anticyclones and Their Shape." (With H. Storrari.) Journal of Geophysical Research 78 (1973): 2685-2690.

"Further Comments on Estimating the Motion of a Planetary Wind Field." Planetary and Space Physics 19 (1971): 907-913.

"A Note on the Contribution of the Standing Eddies to the Meridional Flux of Angular Momentum." Tellus 21 (1968).

"Estimating the Motion and Mechanics and of a Planetary Atmosphere." Planetary and Space Physics 17 (1969): 1149-1160.

"Estimates of the Seasonal Variation of the General Circulation From Easily Identifiable Features." Tellus 20 (1968): 138-150.

"The Evidence for the Existence of Rossby-Like Waves in the Hurricane Vortex." Tellus 20 (1968): 138-150.

"The Dependence of the Motion of Cyclonic and Anticyclonic Vortices of their Size." Journal of Atmospheric Science 24 (19667): 448-452.

"Methods of Measuring Solar and Terrestrial Atmospheric Circulations." Tellus 18 (1966): 13-17.

"Comments on a Paper by V.R. Nookester,'Non-Diurnal Variations of the E-Layer at Washington, D.C.'." Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics 28 (1966): 13-17.

"The Persistence and Variability of Anomalous E-Region Penetrating Frequencies." Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics 27 (1965): 1009-1018.

"A Test for a Period of 18 Cycles Per Year in Rainfall Data." (With G.W.Brier and R. Shapiro.) Journal of Applied Meteorology 3: 53-57

"A Search For Rainfall Calendaricities." (With G.W. Brier and R. Shapiro.) Journal of Atmospheric Science 20 (1963): 529-532.

"The Prediction of Geomagnetic Disturbance Indices; Part 1, The Elimination of Internally Predictable Variations." (With F. Ward.) Journal of Geophysical Research 68 (1963): 3351-3373.

"A Test of the Reality of Rainfall Singularties." (With R. Shapiro.) Journal of Meteorology 18 (1961): 704-707.

"A Statistical Study of Lower Atmospheric-Ionospheric Coupling." (With R. Knecht.) Journal of Geophysical Research 66 (1961): 3187-3190.

"The Predicted Performance of a High Frequency Polar Communication Network During an Ionospheric Storm." (With R. Penndorph and G.E. Hill.) AVCO Technical Report 36 (1961): 61-71.

"The Effect of Solar Corpuscular Emissions on the Development of Large Troughs in the Troposphere." (With W.O. Roberts.) Journal of Meteorology 18 (1961): 116-118.

"Some Observations of the Mountain Wave." (With H.T.Harrison.) Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 41 (1960): 627-632.

"Further Evidence of a Solar Influence on Large Scale Circulation at 300mb." (With W.O. Roberts.) Journal of Geophysical Research 65 (1960): 529-539. "The Relation of Geomagnetic Disturbances to Changes in the Circulation at the 30,000-Foot Level." (With D.D. Woodbridge). Science: 638-639.

"An Apparent Relationship Between Geomagnetic Disturbances and Changes in the Atmospheric Circulation at 300 mb." (With D.D. Woodbridge and T.W. Phorte.) Journal of Geophysical Research 64 (1959): 331-334.

"A Possible Relationship of Geomagnetic Disturbances to 300mb Trough Development." (With D.D. Woodbridge and T.W. Phorte). Journal of Meteorology 63 (1958): 246-248.

"A Guide to Arctic Forecasting." Naval Aeronautical Publication (1955).

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