Teaching Interests: Synoptic meteorology, mesoscale analysis and forecasting.

Dr. Fritsch works on understanding and predicting mesoscale convective complexes, flash floods, cold-air damming, warm-core cyclogenesis, lake-effect storms, and extratropical cyclogenesis.

Selected Publications:

Fritsch, J. M., J.  Hilliker, J. Ross, and R. L. Vislocky, 2000:  Model Consensus. Wea. and Forecasting,
15, 571-582.

Bryan, G. and J. M. Fritsch, 2000:   Moist absolute instability: The sixth static stability state.
 Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 81, 1207-1230.

Rogers, R. F., J. M. Fritsch and W. C. Lambert, 2000:  Using radar data in the dynamic initialization of
 a mesoscale model.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 2560-2574.

Bryan, G. and J. M. Fritsch, 2000:   Discrete propagation of surface fronts in a convective environment:
Observations and theory.  J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 2041-2060.

Pontrelli, M., G. Bryan  and J. M. Fritsch, 1999:   The 1995 Madison County, Virginia flash flood.  Wea.
and Forecasting, 14, 384-404.

Kain, J. S. and J. M. Fritsch, 1998:   Multiscale convective overturning in mesoscale convective systems:    Reconciling observations, simulations and theory.   Mon. Wea. Rev., 126, 2254-2273.

Vislocky, R. and J. M. Fritsch, 1997:    An automated, observations-based system for short-term prediction
of ceiling and visibility.    Wea. and Forecasting, 12, 31-43.

Miner, T.J., and J.M. Fritsch, 1997: Lake-effect rain events. Monthly Weather Review, 125, 3231-3248.

Laing, A.G., and J.M. Fritsch, 1997: The global population of mesoscale convective complexes. Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorology Society, 123, 389-405.

Corfidi, S.F., J.H. Merritt and J.M. Fritsch, 1996:  Predicting the movement of mesoscale convective   complexes.   Wea. and Forecasting, 11, 41-46.

Vislocky, R. and J.M. Fritsch, 1995:  Improved model-output-statistics forecasts through model
 consensus.  Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 76, 1157-1164.

Sousounis, P.J. and J.M. Fritsch, 1994:  Lake-aggregate mesoscale disturbances.  Part II:  Effects on
 regional and synoptic scale weather systems.  Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 75, 1793-1811.

Fritsch, J.M, J.D. Murphy, and J.S. Kain, 1994: Warm-core vortex amplification over land. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 51, 1780-1807.

Fritsch, J.M., J. Kapolka, and P.A. Hirschberg, 1992: The effects of subcloud-layer diabatic processes on cold air damming. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 49, 49-70.

Hirschberg, P.A. and J.M. Fritsch, 1991:  Tropopause undulations and the development of extratropical
 cyclones:  Part II:  Diagnostic analysis and conceptual model.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 119, 518-550.