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  1. Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!destroyer!ncar!csn!yuma!typhoon!kjun
  3. From: kjun@typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu (Pat Fitzpatrick)
  4. Subject: Re: Rivers in the sky?
  5. Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account)
  6. Message-ID: <Jan24.052302.53208@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
  7. Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 05:23:02 GMT
  8. References: <1466900288@igc.apc.org>
  9. Nntp-Posting-Host: typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu
  10. Organization: Colorado State University -- Atmos Sci
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  13. We saw it the article about "Rivers in the air," too, in the local
  14. paper. I'll have to refrain comment until I see the actual journal
  15. article ( Geophysical Research Letters hasn't arrived here yet).
  16. I have seen many instances
  17. where a journalist has misinterpreted a meteorology subject,
  18. or just plain got the facts wrong.  The journal will also give a 
  19. more rigorous description of this subject. Personally, I'm a bit skeptical,
  20. but who knows........
  21.  
  22. Anyway, what I'm really wondering is if anyone knows how the AP picks
  23. their "weather stories." After all, most articles claim some kind
  24. of *new* discovery in journals (or they wouldn't be accepted).
  25. Does the writer plug it to a journalist? Is there a head science
  26. investigator at AP? Doesn't AP also scout through other major
  27. papers?
  28.  
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  31. Pat Fitzpatrick                        (____)    /\
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  34. Wish you were beautiful                 * * * / The  \
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  39. The beer of kings                   | E-mail kjun@typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu |
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