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A Half Century of Progress in Meteorology: A Tribute to Richard Reed pp 49–60Cite as

Back to Frontogenesis

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It is a great pleasure for me to contribute to this symposium and volume in honor of Dick Reed. My Ph.D. research on frontogenesis owed much to the papers by Dick and his collaborators. Since then I have always found scientific meetings with him to be exhilarating, and my wife and I have found social meetings with Joan and him to be very enjoyable. I suspect that my main contribution to Dick’s life is that I guided him in the art of driving around roundabouts in England!

“...the increase in horizontal temperature gradient is due to a steepening of the slope of isentropic surfaces as the result of an indirect solenoidal circulation. Here it is found that the upper-level frontal zone is a dynamically produed phenomenon that intensifies as the storm intensifies, and that the circulation within it is reverse of that required for energy release in the classical sense.”—(Reed 1955)

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Hoskins, B. (2003). Back to Frontogenesis. 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_3

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