Registration

How to Register as an Individual or Institutional User

In order to access the journal content for which you've paid, you will need to sign in using your member online profile login.  If you have not yet created your login, or if you've forgotten the email address or password you used to create your profile, visit the AMS Online Profile Management Center for assistance.

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RSS feeds

What is RSS?

RSS is an easy way for you to keep updated automatically on websites you like. Instead of you having to go to websites to see if they've written a new article or feature, you can use RSS (which stands for Really Simple Syndication) to get them to tell you every time they have something new.

In general you need to get hold of a program called a News Reader. This displays RSS information feeds from your chosen websites on your computer.

All you then have to do is choose which RSS feeds you want. There are a range of different News Readers available - for a list of RSS readers and more information , see here.

Different News Readers work on different operating systems, so you will need to take this into account when you make your choice. Click on the icon that says 'RSS' on the issue, Table of Contents or Abstract page. You then need to follow the instructions for your particular News Reader in order to add this XML feed to your RSS list. An RSS reader is needed to set up the feeds and can be downloaded freely.

Click on the RSS button to open a feed, and copy the URL into your RSS reader to be updated.

Searching

Quick Search

A Quick Search box is available in the upper right corner most pages.

The Quick Search will search the full text of all articles in all journals on the website. To use the Quick Search box, type a word or phrase into it, and then click the button marked ‘Go.’ The full text of articles in journals is searched, along with metadata about the articles. The results are displayed in order of their relevance to the search criteria

Advanced Search

In an advanced search, you can search for terms in specific parts of the article, such as the author, title, or publication date.

Under 'Search Criteria,' you will see the following fields:

• Anywhere in Article: Like a Quick Search, this searches the entire article.
• Author: Searches only for authors of articles. Use the last name (and, optionally, initials) of the article's author. A search in this field will not find authors cited within the article.
• Title: Words found in the article's title.

You can also narrow the search by publication date by selecting the volume year(s) of the content you want to search

Search Tips

General formatting

The search engine is not case-sensitive. Thus, a search for 'evaporation' will have the same results as a search for 'Evaporation' or 'EVAPORATION.'

The search engine is not picky about the order of the search terms. 'storm surge disaster' and 'disaster storm surge' will return the same list of results.

Boolean searches

You can use the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT within search fields. By default, an AND relationship is assumed between search terms unless another operator is specified.

Searching for authors

To search for multiple authors, separate each author name with either AND or OR. Using AND will search for content that has been coauthored by the authors. Using OR will search for content that has been authored by either of the authors.

Searching for phrases

Enclose your search term with quotation marks to search for an exact match of that phrase. Without quotation marks, articles including all of the search terms somewhere in the article will be listed. For example, searching for “extreme precipitation” will find articles containing that exact phrase.

Wildcards

Use a question mark (?) in a search term to represent any one character and use an asterisk (*) to represent zero or more characters. Wildcards cannot be used at the start of a search term or when searching for phrases in quotes. For example, searching for "Europe*" will find results containing "Europe" and "European."

Additional search help

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Proxy Settings

Proxy Users: If you are experiencing access problems and are using a software-based proxy system, please have your institution's IT staff check your settings. They should be configured as follows:

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	U http://journals.ametsoc.org 
	D journals.ametsoc.org 
	H 65.156.1.69 
	Option Cookie