Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION TO PARTS I AND II -- Part I Fronts and Surface Boundaries -- Chapter 1 Surface Boundaries of the Southern Plains: Their Role in the Initiation of Convective Storms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Storm initiation -- 3. Surface boundaries in the southern plains -- 4. Vertical circulations associated with surface boundaries -- 5. Suggested research topics -- Chapter 2 Strong Surface Fronts over Sloping Terrain and Coastal Plains -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some frontogenesis concepts: A review -- 3. An eastern New England side-door cold front: 17-18 April 2002 -- 4. A long-lived intense front:28 February to 4 March 1972 -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- Chapter 3 Back to Norway: An Essay -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Evolution of arctic air -- 3. A revised airmass classification -- 4. The arctic front -- 5. Summary -- Chapter 4 An Empirical Perspective on Cold Fronts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some comments on frontal analysis and on frontal development -- 3. Four examples -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Chapter 5 Perspectives on Fred Sanders' Research on Cold Fronts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cold fronts: Changing paradigms -- 3. Sanders (1955): The archetypal cold front -- 4. Sanders (1967): Further studies of cold fronts -- 5. Sanders at the turn of the millenium -- 6. Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The Fiftieth Anniversary of Sanders (1955): A Mesoscale Model Simulation of the Cold Front of 17-18 April 1953 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Model simulation -- 3. Comparison of model output with the Sanders (1955) analysis -- 4. Development of the well-mixed postfrontal air -- 5. Conclusions -- Part II Analysis and Diagnosis -- Chapter 7 Ensemble Synoptic Analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ensemble Kalman filters -- 3. Ensemble synoptic analysis.

4. ESA applied to an extratropical cyclone -- 5. Statistical potential vorticity inversion -- 6. Statistical dynamical sensitivity analysis -- 7. Summary -- Chapter 8 Surface Potential Temperature as an Analysis and Forecasting Tool -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Advantages and disadvantages of surface potential temperature analyses -- 3. An update to the 1-yr climatology of surface baroclinic zones -- 4. Concluding discussion -- Chapter 9 Dynamical Diagnosis: A Comparison of Quasigeostrophy and Ertel Potential Vorticity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Diagnosis: Keeping up with the changing meteorological landscape -- 3. Pseudo-PV and Ertel PV -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Chapter 10 Finescale Radar Observations of a Dryline during the International H2O Project (IHOP-2002) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of dryline motion and development -- 3. W-band radar characteristics -- 4. Analysis of vertical antenna scans across the dryline -- 5. The variational analysis of rolling RHI data -- 6. Analysis of rolling RHI scans across the dryline -- 7. Summary and discussion -- INTRODUCTION TO PARTS III AND IV -- Part III Forecasting -- Chapter 11 The Sanders Barotropic Tropical Cyclone Track Prediction Model (SANBAR) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The research SANBAR model -- 3. The operational model from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s -- 4. The operational version of the model during the mid- and late 1980s -- 5. SANBAR forecast track verifications -- 6. Conclusions -- Chapter 12 The Application of Fred Sanders' Teaching to Current Research on Extreme Cold-Season Precipitation Events in the Saint Lawrence River Valley Region -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Extreme cold-season events in the Saint Lawrence and Champlain valleys in the context of quasigeostrophic theory -- 3. An extreme cold-season event in the SaintLawrence and Champlain valleys in the context of frontogenesis.

4. Summary -- Chapter 13 Must Surprise Snowstorms be a Surprise? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Basic principles -- 3. Some historical perspective -- 4. Snowstorm case studies -- 5. So, why the uncertainty? -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Concluding remarks -- Chapter 14 Fred Sanders' Roles in the Transformation of Synoptic Meteorology, the Study of Rapid Cyclogenesis, the Prediction of Marine Cyclones, and the Forecast of New York City's ''Big Snow'' of December 1947 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Fred Sanders' contributions to the study of rapid cyclogenesis -- 3. Current capabilities: Predicting oceaniccy clogenesis -- 4. The December 1947 New York City snowstorm -- 5. Summary -- Part IV Climate and Climatology -- Chapter 15 Linking Weather and Climate -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Major phenomena and mechanisms -- 4. Advances in forecast skill and analyses of potential predictability -- 5. Future directions -- Chapter 16 Closed Anticyclones of the Subtropics and Midlatitudes: A 54-Yr Climatology (1950-2003) and Three Case Studies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methods -- 3. Climatology -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusions -- APPENDIX A A Career with Fronts: Real Ones and Bogus Ones -- APPENDIX B Fred Sanders' Students -- METEOROLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS.

Honoring the scientist and teacher Fred Sanders, this book offers 16 articles and dozens of unique photographs evoking Fred's character and his atmospheric science work in the fields of forecasting, synoptic meteorology, weather analysis and climatology.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.