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Tropopause Folding, Upper-Level Frontogenesis, and Beyond

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A Half Century of Progress in Meteorology: A Tribute to Richard Reed

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Richard J. Reed has made highly original and substantive research contributions to the field of meteorology in a career that has spanned more than five decades. The gathering here in Orlando in January 2002 for the Reed Symposium attests to Dick’s lifetime achievements and influence on the field. It is a great honor for me to have the opportunity to speak at the Reed Symposium to help highlight Dick’s many important contributions and, most importantly, to show how his creative insight has helped to ignite and sustain new research inquiries and directions.

“Potential vorticity on isentropic surfaces provides a useful tool for the study of frontogenesis. During the formation of a katafront, or subsiding cold front, it is possible for the tropopause to become folded and for a thin slice of the stratospheric air to descend to the middle or even the lower troposphere.” — (Reed 1955)

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Bosart, L.F. (2003). Tropopause Folding, Upper-Level Frontogenesis, and Beyond. In: Johnson, R.H., Houze, R.A. (eds) A Half Century of Progress in Meteorology: A Tribute to Richard Reed. Meteorological Monographs. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-878220-69-1_2

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