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  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Lance F. Bosart is affiliated with the University at Albany, State University of New York in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a concentration in Environmental Science. Within these domains, their work touches on multiple subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Oceanography.

The scientist's research addresses a variety of topics, notably:

  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis

They have contributed frequently to several publication venues, with the most common being:

  • Monthly Weather Review
  • Journal of Climate
  • Weather and Forecasting
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Representative recent papers by Lance F. Bosart include:

  • Extreme Rainfall in Taiwan: Seasonal Statistics and Trends (2021, Journal of Climate)
  • A Feature-Based Approach to Classifying Summertime Potential Vorticity Streamers Linked to Rossby Wave Breaking in the North Atlantic Basin (2020, Journal of Climate)
  • Composite Synoptic-Scale Environments Conducive to North American Polar-Subtropical Jet Superposition Events (2020, Monthly Weather Review)
  • A Climatological Analysis of the Linkages between Tropopause Polar Vortices, Cold Pools, and Cold Air Outbreaks over the Central and Eastern United States (2020, Monthly Weather Review)
  • Mesoscale Gravity Waves and Midlatitude Weather: A Tribute to Fuqing Zhang (2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Daniel Keyser
  • Lexi Henny
  • Chris D. Thorncroft
  • Craig R. Ferguson
  • K. Biernat

Lance F. Bosart's contributions have been recognized with the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) awarded in 2013.

Best Publications

  • The extratropical transition of tropical cyclones : forecast challenges, current understanding, and future directions

    Sarah C. Jones;Patrick A. Harr;Jim Abraham;Lance F. Bosart

  • Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge

    Kenneth E. Kunkel;Thomas R. Karl;Harold Brooks;James Kossin

  • The Presidents' Day Snowstorm of 18–19 February 1979: A Subsynoptic-Scale Event

    Lance F. Bosart

  • Appalachian Cold-Air Damming

    Gerald D. Bell;Lance F. Bosart

  • Impacts of wind farms on land surface temperature

    Liming Zhou;Yuhong Tian;Somnath Baidya Roy;Chris Thorncroft

  • Environmental Influences on the Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Opal (1995) over the Gulf of Mexico

    Lance F. Bosart;W. Edward Bracken;John Molinari;Christopher S. Velden

  • The Extratropical Transition and Precipitation Distribution of Hurricane Floyd (1999)

    Eyad H. Atallah;Lance F. Bosart

  • The Johnstown Flood of July 1977: A Long-Lived Convective System

    Lance F. Bosart;Frederick Sanders

  • A Diagnostic Analysis of the Presidents' Day Storm Of February 1979

    Lance F. Bosart;Song C. Lin

  • The Bow Echo and MCV Experiment: Observations and Opportunities

    Christopher A. Davis;Nolan Atkins;Diana Bartels;Diana Bartels;Lance Bosart

  • Predecessor Rain Events ahead of Tropical Cyclones

    Thomas J. Galarneau;Lance F. Bosart;Russ S. Schumacher

  • Postlandfall Tropical Cyclone Reintensification in a Weakly Baroclinic Environment: A Case Study of Hurricane David (September 1979)

    Lance F. Bosart;Gary M. Lackmann

  • Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting: Report of the Eighth Prospectus Development Team, U.S. Weather Research Program

    J. M. Fritsch;Robert A. Houze;R. Adler;H. Bluestein

  • The Effect of Large-Scale Flow on Low-Level Frontal Structure and Evolution in Midlatitude Cyclones

    David M. Schultz;Daniel Keyser;Lance F. Bosart

  • Baroclinically Induced Tropical Cyclogenesis

    Christopher A. Davis;Lance F. Bosart

  • The Transformation of Tropical Storm Agnes into an Extratropical Cyclone. Part I: The Observed Fields and Vertical Motion Computations

    Geoffrey J. DiMego;Lance F. Bosart

  • The extratropical transition of tropical cyclones. Part I: Cyclone evolution and direct impacts

    Clark Evans;Kimberly M. Wood;Sim D. Aberson;Heather M. Archambault

  • Precipitation Distribution Associated with Landfalling Tropical Cyclones over the Eastern United States

    Eyad Atallah;Lance F. Bosart;Anantha R. Aiyyer

  • The Pre-Depression Investigation of Cloud-Systems in the Tropics (PREDICT) Experiment: Scientific Basis, New Analysis Tools, and Some First Results

    Michael T. Montgomery;Christopher Davis;Timothy Dunkerton;Zhuo Wang

  • The 1993 Superstorm Cold Surge: Frontal Structure, Gap Flow, and Tropical Impact

    David M. Schultz;W. Edward Bracken;Lance F. Bosart;Gregory J. Hakim

  • The importance of the task in analyzing expert judgment

    Thomas R. Stewart;Paul J. Roebber;Lance F. Bosart

  • Mesoscale Structure in the Megalopolitan Snowstorm of 11–12 February 1983. Part I: Frontogenetical Forcing and Symmetric Instability

    Frederick Sanders;Lance F. Bosart

  • Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge

    Kenneth E. Kunkel;Thomas R. Karl;Harold Brooks;James P. Kossin

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher A. Davis
Christopher A. Davis National Center for Atmospheric Research
John R. Gyakum
John R. Gyakum McGill University
Gregory J. Hakim
Gregory J. Hakim University of Washington
Fuqing Zhang
Fuqing Zhang Pennsylvania State University
Morris L. Weisman
Morris L. Weisman National Center for Atmospheric Research
Chris D. Thorncroft
Chris D. Thorncroft University at Albany, State University of New York
Olivia Martius
Olivia Martius University of Bern
Richard E. Orville
Richard E. Orville Texas A&M University
W. James Steenburgh
W. James Steenburgh University of Utah

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