Northeast Snowstorms

Designed with researchers, students, and weather observers and enthusiasts in mind, Northeast Snowstorms takes the unique approach of utilizing conventional weather charts and detailed descriptions of individual storms to analyze storms in a multi-disciplinary way. The most comprehensive treatment of winter storms ever compiled, this two-volume set includes case studies, insights, historic photos, and 200 color figures. The extra material on the SpringerExtras server contains five days of complete reanalysis data at 35-km grid resolution and 64 vertical levels for each of the cases. This allows everyone from enthusiasts to students to conduct their own diagnostic studies or research projects for any of the 70 historic cases, from a PC or workstation environment. Instructors take note: this is an excellent tool for creating classroom exercises.

Auteur

Paul J. Kocin worked as a winter weather expert for The Weather Channel, where he was responsible for predicting the path, intensity, and duration of winter storms; a meteorologist for NOAA's Hydrometeorological Prediction Center; and a research meteorologist in the Laboratory for Atmospheres at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Louis W. Uccellini is Director of the National Weather Service, National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). He is responsible for technology and operations at NCEP's Central Operations and Environmental Modeling Center, as well as seven national centers that forecast specific weather phenomena, including the National Hurricane Center, Storm Prediction Center, Space Environment Center, and Aviation Weather Center.

Contenu

Climatology.- Synoptic Descriptions of Major Snowstorms: Snowfall and Surface Features.- Synoptic Descriptions of Major Snowstorms: Upper-Level Features.- "Near Miss" Events in the Urban Corridor.- Mesoscale Aspects of Northeast Snowfall Distribution.- Dynamical and Physical Processes Influencing Northeast Snowstorms.- Summary, Forecast Advances, and a Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale (NESIS).- Historical Overview.- Thirty-Two Selected Snowstorms: 1950-2003.- Descriptions of "Near Miss" Events.- Early and Late Season Snows.