This page has some links to papers relevant to what we've discussed in class, but that may not have been addressed directly in the notes or the student-led paper presentations...

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.

Development of tropical cyclones by "tropical transition" :

Davis, Christopher A., Lance F. Bosart, 2004: The TT Problem: Forecasting the Tropical Transition of Cyclones. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 85, 1657–1662.

Davis, Christopher A., Lance F. Bosart, 2003: Baroclinically Induced Tropical Cyclogenesis. Mon. Wea. Rev., 131, 2730–2747.

McTaggart-Cowan, Ron, Glenn D. Deane, Lance F. Bosart, Christopher A. Davis, Thomas J. Galarneau, 2008: Climatology of Tropical Cyclogenesis in the North Atlantic (1948–2004). Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 1284–1304.

Instabilities

Sherwood, Steven C., 2000: On Moist Instability. Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 4139–4142.

Schultz, David M., Philip N. Schumacher, Charles A. Doswell, 2000: The Intricacies of Instabilities. Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 4143–4148.

Doswell, Charles A., Paul M. Markowski, 2004: Is Buoyancy a Relative Quantity?. Mon. Wea. Rev., 132, 853–863.

Bryan, George H., J. M. Fritsch, 2000: Moist Absolute Instability: The Sixth Static Stability State. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 81, 1207–1230.

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.

Squall Lines/MCSs

Bryan, George H., Jason C. Knievel, Matthew D. Parker, 2006: A Multimodel Assessment of RKW Theory’s Relevance to Squall-Line Characteristics. Mon. Wea. Rev., 134, 2772–2792.

Parker, Matthew D., 2010: Relationship between System Slope and Updraft Intensity in Squall Lines. Mon. Wea. Rev., 138, 3572–3578.