Session 1 |
| Cyclones (Room 617) |
| Chair: Lance Bosart, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY
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| 9:00 AM | 1.1 | Fred Sanders’ Contribution to Improving the Forecast of Rapid Cyclogenesis Louis W. Uccellini, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and R. Kistler, P. J. Kocin, and J. E. Sienkiewicz |
| 9:15 AM | 1.2 | Quasi-Geostrophic Analysis of Explosive Marine Cyclogenesis: The Blizzard of ’78 Frank P. Colby Jr., Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA; and B. R. Colman |
| 9:30 AM | 1.3 | Twenty-five years of progress: A look back at forecasting the “Blizzard of ‘78” and a comparison with current operational capabilities. Bradley R. Colman, NOAA/NWS, Seattle, WA; and F. P. Colby |
| 9:45 AM | 1.4 | The role of frontogenesis in the production of heavy cold-season precipitation events in the Saint Lawrence River valley John R. Gyakum, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and D. Durnford, P. J. Roebber, P. A. Sisson, and R. McTaggart-Cowan |
| 10:00 AM | 1.5 | Back to Norway Kerry Emanuel, MIT, Cambridge, MA |