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Synoptic-Dynamic Meteorology and Weather Analysis and Forecasting
TheFredSandersLegacyinSynoptic-DynamicMeteorology andWeatherAnalysisandForecasting The ?eld of synoptic meteorology, which seeks to turing business. He became a transatlantic aviationfo- understand weather systems such as fronts and cyclones caster for the U. S. Weather Bureau at La Guardia Field, by careful analysis and interpretation of weather ob- but after two years returned to MIT as a graduatestudent servations, was much in?uenced by the late Frederick under the G. I. Bill, intending to get a master's degree Sanders, emeritus professor of meteorology at the Mas- and return to the Weather Bureau as a researcher. But sachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Professor he was persuaded by his MIT mentors to enter the doc- Sanders, universally known as ''Fred,'' made important toral program, and he earned an Sc. D. degree in 1954 contributions to the analysis, understanding, and pre- under the guidance of Thomas Malone, after which he diction of fronts, extratropical cyclones, hurricanes, joined the faculty of the MIT Department of Met- squall lines and other warm-season convective weather rology, where he remained until his retirement in 1984. systems, and ?ood-producing storms. He coined the In the 1960s, Fred began to think about the imp- term ''bomb'' to describe explosively intensifying win- tance of forecast veri?cation studies as one key to - ter storms. His classic oft-cited 1955 paper on an in- locking some of the scienti?c mysteries of the at- vestigation of the structure and dynamics of an intense sphere.
EAN/ISBN : 9780933876682
Publisher(s): Springer, Berlin
Format: ePub/PDF
Author(s): Bosart, Lance
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