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Melvyn A. Shapiro
Researcher at National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publications - 92
Citations - 6188
Melvyn A. Shapiro is an academic researcher from National Center for Atmospheric Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mesoscale meteorology & Extratropical cyclone. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 92 publications receiving 5879 citations. Previous affiliations of Melvyn A. Shapiro include University of Bergen & National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Turbulent Mixing within Tropopause Folds as a Mechanism for the Exchange of Chemical Constituents between the Stratosphere and Troposphere
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of the jet stream frontal zone clear air turbulence (CAT) as a mechanism for the exchange of air and chemical trace constituents between the stratosphere and the troposphere is discussed.
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Fronts, Jet Streams and the Tropopause
Melvyn A. Shapiro,Daniel Keyser +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on the structural characteristics of fronts and their associated jet streams near the tropopause, and on the diagnosis of the frontogenetic processes and secondary circulations governing their life cycles.
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A Review of the Structure and Dynamics of Upper-Level Frontal Zones
Daniel Keyser,Melvyn A. Shapiro +1 more
TL;DR: The development of structural models of upper-level frontal systems from the application of upper air data to analyses utilizing radiosonde and aircraft observations is reviewed in this paper, where the effects of turbulent processes and baroclinic waves on frontal structures and dynamics are examined.
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Flow response to large-scale topography: the Greenland tip jet
James D. Doyle,Melvyn A. Shapiro +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, numerical model simulations of idealized and observed flows are used to investigate the dynamics of low-level jet streams that form in stratified flow downstream of the vertex of largeelliptical barriers such as the southern tip of Greenland, hereafter referred to as ‘tip jets’.
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The North Pacific Experiment (NORPEX-98): Targeted Observations for Improved North American Weather Forecasts
Rolf H. Langland,Zoltan Toth,Ronald Gelaro,Istvan Szunyogh,Melvyn A. Shapiro,Sharanya J. Majumdar,Rebecca E. Morss,G. D. Rohaly,Christopher S. Velden,Nicholas A. Bond,Craig H. Bishop +10 more
TL;DR: The North Pacific Experiment (NORPEX) as mentioned in this paper was an inter-government field program to address the issue of observational sparsity over the North Pacific basin, which is a major contributing factor in short-range (less than 4 days) forecast failures for landfalling Pacific winter-season storms that affect the United States, Canada, and Mexico.