ATS 641: Mesoscale Meteorology

Articles

Mesoanalysis

Bosart, Lance F., 2003: Whither the Weather Analysis and Forecasting Process? Wea. Forecasting, 18, 520-529.

Maddox, Robert A., 1980: An Objective Technique for Separating Macroscale and Mesoscale Features in Meteorological Data. Mon. Wea. Rev., 108, 1108-1121.

Koch, Steven E., Mary desJardins, Paul J. Kocin, 1983: An Interactive Barnes Objective Map Analysis Scheme for Use with Satellite and Conventional Data. J. Climate Appl. Meteor., 22, 1487-1503.

Potential vorticity

Hoskins, B.J., M.E. McIntyre, and A.W. Robertson, 1985: On the use and significance of isentropic potential vorticity maps. Quart. J. Royal Meteor. Soc., 111, 877-946.

Dynamic tropopause:

Morgan, Michael C., John W. Nielsen-Gammon, 1998: Using Tropopause Maps to Diagnose Midlatitude Weather Systems. Mon. Wea. Rev., 126, 2555–2579.

Nielsen-Gammon, John W., 2001: A Visualization of the Global Dynamic Tropopause. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 82, 1151–1167.

Fronts/frontogenesis:

Sanders, F., 1955: An investigation of the structure and dynamics of an intense surface frontal zone. J. Meteor., 12, 542-552

Schultz, D.M., and G. Vaughan, 2011: Occluded Fronts and the Occlusion Process: A Fresh Look at Conventional Wisdom. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 92, 443-466.