Dr.
Martin Baxter (Marty)
Associate Professor of Meteorology
Central Michigan University
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
314 Brooks Hall
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859
Office: (989) 774-2055
Secretary: (989) 774-3179
Fax: (989) 774-2142
Email: baxte1ma@cmich.edu
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Dept.
Website
I am currently in my eighth year at CMU, and am spending the
year on sabbatical at NC State University and the NWS in Raleigh. I did my
graduate work at Saint Louis University. I have held forecasting, research, and
teaching internships at Weather or Not, Inc. in Shawnee, KS, the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center in Washington, D.C.,
and the Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education, and
Training in Boulder, CO. The most recent copy of my CV can be found here.
If you are a student looking for course web pages, please go to Blackboard.
Awards and Honors
- 2013-2014 CMU College of
Science and Technology Sabbatical Fellowship Award (sabbatical to be taken
at NC State University and National Weather Service, Raleigh, NC)
- 2012 Editor's Award from
the American Meteorological Society's Bulletin of the American
Meteorological Society
- 2009-2010 CMU Excellence
in Teaching Award Winner
Teaching
On
sabbatical for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Research
My research has
focused on improving our understanding of precipitation systems. In particular,
I have examined the climatology of snow to liquid ratio and methods for forecasting
this quantity. My dissertation research involved determining the effects of
upstream convection on mesoscale banded snowfall. Of late I have become more
interested in how numerical weather prediction can best be used in operational
forecasting. I consider myself a synoptic meteorologist who is more interested
in mesoscale processes, rather than planetary/climate scale processes.
I have a history of mentoring both undergraduate and graduate research. Four
undergraduate students have placed in the poster competitions at the National
Weather Association and American Meteorological Society annual meetings. To
learn more about my research, and how you might get involved, please contact me
via email.
Research Grants
- "Climatology and conceptual models of snowfall
distribution in cold-season Central U.S. cyclones", $16,686
from the National Weather Service through the COMET Partners Program
- "Variability of the Influence of Convection on
Conveyor Belts: Development of Conceptual Models and Forecast Methodologies", $14,275
from the National Weather Service through the COMET Partners Program
- "The Relative Contributions of Intrinsic and
Practical Predictability to Model Forecasts of Cyclone Development" $14,912
from the CMU President's Research Investment Fund
Publications
- Baxter, M.A., G.M. Lackmann, K.M. Mahoney, T.E. Workoff, and T.M. Hamill, 2014: Verification of Precipitation Reforecasts over the Southeast United States, Weather and Forecasting, in press.
- Hartnett, J.J., J.M. Collins, M.A. Baxter, and D.P. Chambers, 2014: Spatiotemporal Snowfall Trends in Central New York, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, in press.
- Lazarus, S.M., J.M. Collins, M.A. Baxter, A.
Case-Hanks, T.M. Whittaker, K.R. Tyle, S.F. Cecelski, B. Geerts, and M.K.
Ramamurthy, 2013: 2012
Unidata Users Workshop: Navigating Earth System
Science Data, Bulletin of the
American Meteorological Society, 94,
ES136-ES143.
- Bunkers, M.J. and M.A. Baxter, 2011: Radar Tornadic Debris Signatures on 27 April 2011, Electronic
Journal of Operational Meteorology, published online as 2011-ION1.
- Baxter, M.A., 2011: Impacts of
Very Small Initial Condition Errors on Mesoscale Aspects of Two Cyclones,
Electronic Journal of Operational Meteorology, published online
as 2011-EJ1.
- Baxter, M.A., 2011: Reforecasts
of a 2004 Elevated Convection Event Misforecast
by the Eta Model, National Weather Digest, 35, 3-26.
- Baxter, M.A., P.N. Schumacher, and J.M. Boustead,
2011: The
Use of Potential Vorticity Inversion to Evaluate the Effect of
Precipitation on Downstream Mesoscale Processes, Quarterly Journal
of the Royal Meteorological Society, 137, 179-198. PDF file
available upon request
- Baxter, M.A., C.E. Graves, and J.T. Moore, December
2006: A
Physically-Based Method for Diagnosing Snow to Liquid Ratio Using
Climatology, National Weather Digest, 30, 29-44.
- Baxter, M.A., C.E. Graves, and J.T. Moore, 2005: A Climatology of Snow to Liquid Ratio for the
Contiguous United States, Weather and Forecasting, 20,
729-744.
- Ratley, C.W.,
A.R. Lupo and M.A. Baxter, 2002: Determining
the Spring to Summer Transition in the Missouri
Ozarks Using Synoptic Scale Atmospheric Data, Transactions of the
Missouri Academy of Sciences, 36, 55-62.
Undergraduate Research
- ÒPredictability of
Impacts Associated with the February 2011 ÔGroundhogÕs DayÕ StormÓ by
Stephanie Bonney
- Current
student
- "Comparison of Two Forecasts for Tornadoes
Associated with Cold Core 500-mb Lows: Surprise and Bust" by
L.B. LaForce
- Meteorologist/Programmer
Hazard Notifications LLC
- "Numerical Simulation of a Snowfall Event with
Mesoscale Snowbands to the Northeast and
Northwest of the Surface Low: March 30th 2009" by
Maura Casey
- MS
student in Geography, Michigan State University
- "Evaluation of the Mesoscale Convective Vortex of
August 11-12, 2010" by Adam Picard
- MS
student in Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
- "Analysis of Microphysics Scheme Performance with
the October 2006 Buffalo Snowstorm" by
Mike Piatek-Jimenez
- Owner,
Gaucho Software LLC (weather analysis software package)
- "Accuracy of a Local WRF-ARW Model Run for the
22-24 December 2007 Cyclone Using the New Model Evaluation Tools
Verification Package" by Kimberly Hoogewind
- MS
student in Atmospheric Science, Purdue University
- "The Spatial and Temporal Variability in
Snow-to-Liquid Ratio Across Michigan" by
Rachel Kulik
- Forecaster,
National Weather Service, Detroit, MI
- "Effects of Precipitation Events on the Frequency
and Duration of Combined Sewer Overflows in Selected Michigan
Communities" by Kailey Wass
- MS
student in Forest Resources, University of Washington
- "Accuracy of a WRF Simulation of the 12 June 2001
Mesoscale Convective System" by Brandon Hoving
- Forecaster,
National Weather Service, Grand Rapids, MI
- "A Case Study of a Surprise Elevated Convection
Event Over Eastern Missouri: 24-25 July 2004" by
Michelle Keast
- Lieutenant,
United States Air Force
Graduate Research (Committee Membership)
- "Examining
the Effect of Lake Michigan on Heavy Rainfall", Sarah Trojniak, MS
in Meteorology, (degree conferred, August 2013) Saint Louis University
- PhD student in Meteorology, Saint Louis
University
- "Spatial
and Temporal Trends of Snowfall in Central New York - A Lake Effect
Dominated Region", Justin
Hartnett, MS in Environmental Science and Policy, (degree conferred, May
2013) University of South Florida
- PhD student in Geography, Syracuse
University
- "A
Proposed Method for Objectively Identifying and Characterizing Frontal
Zones", Kimberly Hoogewind, MS in Meteorology (degree conferred, May
2012), Purdue University
- PhD student in Atmospheric Science, Purdue
University
- "Verification
of the Northeastern United States Heavy Snowfall Conceptual Model", Chad Gravelle, PhD
in Meteorology (degree conferred, August 2011), Saint Louis University
- GOES-R Liaison, National Weather Service
Training Center, Kansas City, MO
- "A
Composite Analysis of Heavy Snow Events Within the Central and Eastern
United States", Jayson
Gosselin, MS in Meteorology (degree conferred
July 2010), Saint Louis University
- Forecaster, National Weather Service, St.
Louis, MO
Service
I am involved in a variety of university and professional service activities:
University
- Faculty Coordinator for College of Science
and Technology Posters at the Capitol Event
- Faculty Advisor to the Student Chapter of American
Meteorological Society
- Academic Advisor to Meteorology Students
- Former member of the Science and Technology
Residential College Advisory Board and the CMU First Year Experience
Advisory Council
Professional
- Member of team that founded the National
Weather AssociationÕs Journal of Operational Meteorology in 2013,
continuing on as Associate Editor
- 2011 Editor of the Electronic Journal of
Operational Meteorology, published by the National Weather Association
- Served as Reviewer for Bulletin of the American
Meteorological Society, Weather and Forecasting, Monthly Weather Review,
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, National Weather Digest,
Electronic Journal of Operational Meteorology, Pure and Applied
Geophysics, International Journal of Climatology, Journal of Atmospheric
and Oceanic Technology, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, and Atmospheric
Research
- Member of the Unidata
Users Committee
- Serve as lecturer to professional
forecasters at the Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology,
Education, and Training including the National Weather Service Mesoscale
Analysis and Prediction course and the Meteorological Services of Canada
Winter Weather course
- Routinely present to National Weather
Service forecasters at local offices
- Member of the National Weather Association
Weather Analysis and Forecasting and Publications Committees
- Past president of the Greater St. Louis
Chapter of the American Meteorological Society
Personal
My wife and I were married June 19th, 2004. We have a house in Mt. Pleasant,
MI, and live with our 2 cats. I enjoy camping and backpacking, and have hiked
in New York, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Virginia, Colorado, California, Washington, Missouri, Illinois and Michigan. I
am also a St. Louis Cardinals, Kansas City Chiefs, and Missouri Tigers fan.
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