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  1. The Role of an Atmospheric River in Amplifying the June 2021 Western North American Heat Wave

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, May 2026, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  2. Author Correction: Climate change exacerbates compound flooding from recent tropical cyclones

    Article • npj Natural Hazards, October 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gary M Lackmann

  3. An Unusual Case of Rapid Cyclogenesis in the Northeast Pacific Basin. Overview and Piecewise PV Inversion

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, September 2025, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  4. How Will Precipitation Characteristics Associated with Tropical Cyclones in Diverse Synoptic Environments in the Southeast United States Respond to Climate Change?

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, July 2025, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  5. Analyzing Atmospheric River Reforecasts: Self-Organizing Error Patterns and Synoptic-Scale Settings

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, July 2025, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  6. Author Correction: Climate change exacerbates compound flooding from recent tropical cyclones

    Article • npj Natural Hazards, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gary M Lackmann

  7. Climate change exacerbates compound flooding from recent tropical cyclones

    Article • npj Natural Hazards, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gary M Lackmann

  8. Effect of transient vortex interactions on the size and strength of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

    Article • Icarus, June 2024, Elsevier

    Gary M Lackmann

  9. Severe Convective Storms in Limited Instability Organized by Pattern and Distribution

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, January 2024, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  10. An Iterative Approach toward Development of Ensemble Visualization Techniques for High-Impact Winter Weather Hazards: Part II: Product Evaluation

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, September 2023, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  11. An Iterative Approach toward Development of Ensemble Visualization Techniques for High-Impact Winter Weather Hazards: Part I: Product Development

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, September 2023, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  12. Assessing Variations in the Predictive Skill of Ensemble Snowband Forecasts with Object-Oriented Verification and Self-Organizing Maps

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, September 2023, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  13. Improving High-Resolution Ensemble Forecast (HREF) System Mesoscale Snowband Forecasts with Random Forests

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, September 2023, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  14. A Machine Learning Tutorial for Operational Meteorology. Part II: Neural Networks and Deep Learning

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, August 2023, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  15. Changes in Tropical Cyclones Undergoing Extratropical Transition in a Warming Climate: Quasi‐Idealized Numerical Experiments of North Atlantic Landfalling Events

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, April 2023, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Gary M Lackmann

  16. Advantages to Writing Shorter Articles

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, March 2023, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  17. Model Projections of Increased Severity of Heat Waves in Eastern Europe

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, November 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Gary M Lackmann

  18. The Evolving Role of Humans in Weather Prediction and Communication

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, August 2022, American Meteorological Society

    Falko Judt, Gary M Lackmann

  19. A Machine Learning Tutorial for Operational Meteorology. Part I: Traditional Machine Learning

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, August 2022, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  20. The response of tropical cyclone intensity to changes in environmental temperature

    Article • Weather and Climate Dynamics, July 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Gary M Lackmann

  21. Illustration of an Object‐Based Approach to Identify Structural Differences in Tropical Cyclone Wind Fields

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, May 2022, Wiley

    Gary M Lackmann

  22. The Response of Tropical Cyclone Intensity to Temperature Profile Change

    Article • January 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Gary M Lackmann

  23. The National Weather Service–North Carolina State University Internship Course: Impacts and Success over a Generation

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, November 2021, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  24. Storm-Scale Dynamical Changes of Extratropical Transition Events in Present-Day and Future High-Resolution Global Simulations

    Article • Journal of Climate, June 2021, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  25. The Response of Extratropical Transition of Tropical Cyclones to Climate Change: Quasi-Idealized Numerical Experiments

    Article • Journal of Climate, June 2021, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  26. The Sensitivity of Persistent Geopotential Anomalies to the Climate of a Moist Channel Model

    Article • Journal of Climate, June 2021, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  27. Persistent Anomaly Changes in High-Resolution Climate Simulations

    Article • Journal of Climate, April 2021, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  28. Stating the Significance of Our Work

    Article • Weather Climate and Society, October 2020, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  29. Broadening the Scope and Impact of Weather and Forecasting

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, December 2019, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  30. A New Variable-Threshold Persistent Anomaly Index: Northern Hemisphere Anomalies in the ERA-Interim Reanalysis

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, December 2019, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  31. Climatological Changes in the Extratropical Transition of Tropical Cyclones in High-Resolution Global Simulations

    Article • Journal of Climate, December 2019, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  32. Hydrometeor Lofting and Mesoscale Snowbands

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, October 2019, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  33. An Evaluation of Snowband Predictability in the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, October 2019, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  34. Evaluation of a unique approach to high-resolution climate modeling using the Model for Prediction Across Scales – Atmosphere (MPAS-A) version 5.1

    Article • Geoscientific Model Development, August 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Gary M Lackmann

  35. How would Hurricane Irene (2011) change in a warmer climate?

    Article • Journal of Climate, May 2019, American Meteorological Society

    Chunyong Jung, Gary M Lackmann

  36. Evaluating a Novel Approach to Simulating Climate Change

    Article • Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, April 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Gary M Lackmann, Allison Michaelis

  37. A Case Study on Power Outage Impacts from Future Hurricane Sandy Scenarios

    Article • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, January 2018, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  38. Did Hurricane Joaquin Cause the South Carolina Flood of October 2015?

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, November 2017, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann, Christopher Marciano

  39. Changes in Winter North Atlantic Extratropical Cyclones in High-Resolution Regional Pseudo–Global Warming Simulations

    Article • Journal of Climate, September 2017, American Meteorological Society

    Allison Michaelis, Gary M Lackmann

  40. Rapid Evolution of Cool Season, Low-CAPE Severe Thunderstorm Environments

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, April 2017, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  41. Composite Environments of Severe and Nonsevere High-Shear, Low-CAPE Convective Events

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, December 2016, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  42. North Atlantic Storm-Track Sensitivity to Warming Increases with Model Resolution

    Article • Journal of Climate, June 2015, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  43. Hurricane Sandy before 1900 and after 2100

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, April 2015, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  44. Changes in U.S. East Coast Cyclone Dynamics with Climate Change

    Article • Journal of Climate, January 2015, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  45. Verification of Quantitative Precipitation Reforecasts over the Southeastern United States

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, October 2014, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  46. Atlantic Hurricanes and Climate Change. Part II: Role of Thermodynamic Changes in Decreased Hurricane Frequency

    Article • Journal of Climate, October 2013, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  47. Numerical modeling of a historic storm: Simulating the Blizzard of 1888

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, August 2013, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Allison Michaelis, Gary M Lackmann

  48. What would the Nashville, Tennessee flood of May, 2010 look like if it happened 100 years from now?

    Article • Journal of Climate, July 2013, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  49. Atlantic Hurricanes and Climate Change. Part I: Experimental Design and Isolation of Thermodynamic Effects

    Article • Journal of Climate, July 2013, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  50. The Importance of Resolving Mesoscale Latent Heating in the North Atlantic Storm Track

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, July 2013, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  51. Modeling the Impacts of the Large-Scale Atmospheric Environment on Inland Flooding during the Landfall of Hurricane Floyd (1999)

    Article • Advances in Meteorology, January 2013, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Gary M Lackmann

  52. The Impact of Future Climate Change on TC Intensity and Structure: A Downscaling Approach

    Article • Journal of Climate, September 2011, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  53. The Sensitivity of Momentum Transport and Severe Surface Winds to Environmental Moisture in Idealized Simulations of a Mesoscale Convective System

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, May 2011, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney, Gary M Lackmann

  54. Using Operational and Experimental Observations in Geoscience Education

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, April 2011, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  55. Midlatitude Weather Systems: How they work, and how to predict their associated weather.

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gary M Lackmann

  56. Sensitivity of Simulated Tropical Cyclone Structure and Intensity to Horizontal Resolution

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, March 2010, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  57. The Role of Momentum Transport in the Motion of a Quasi-Idealized Mesoscale Convective System

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, October 2009, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney, Gary M Lackmann

  58. What factors influence the size of tropical cyclones?

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, October 2009, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  59. A Collaborative Approach to Study Northwest Flow Snow in The Southern Appalachians

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, July 2009, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  60. Analysis of Idealized Tropical Cyclone Simulations Using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model: Sensitivity to Turbulence Parameterization and Grid Spacing

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, February 2009, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  61. The influence of the Gulf Stream induced SST gradients on the US East Coast winter storm of 24–25 January 2000

    Article • International Journal of Remote Sensing, October 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Gary M Lackmann

  62. Potential Vorticity (PV) Thinking in Operations: The Utility of Nonconservation

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, February 2008, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney, Gary M Lackmann

  63. Models as Educational Tools

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, July 2007, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  64. The Effect of Upstream Convection on Downstream Precipitation

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, April 2007, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney, Gary M Lackmann

  65. Development and evaluation of a forecasting system for fungal disease in turfgrass

    Article • Meteorological Applications, December 2006, Wiley

    Gary M Lackmann

  66. The Future of Humans in an Increasingly Automated Forecast Process

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, November 2006, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  67. The Sensitivity of Numerical Forecasts to Convective Parameterization: A Case Study of the 17 February 2004 East Coast Cyclone

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, August 2006, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney, Gary M Lackmann

  68. Observational Diagnosis and Model Forecast Evaluation of Unforecasted Incipient Precipitation during the 24–25 January 2000 East Coast Cyclone

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, August 2006, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  69. EXPANDING HORIZONS WITH AN NWS INTERNSHIP COURSE

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, October 2005, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  70. The Combined Effects of Gulf Stream–Induced Baroclinicity and Upper-Level Vorticity on U.S. East Coast Extratropical Cyclogenesis

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, August 2005, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  71. The Influence of Incipient Latent Heat Release on the Precipitation Distribution of the 24–25 January 2000 U.S. East Coast Cyclone

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, July 2005, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  72. Modeling and predicting complex space–time structures and patterns of coastal wind fields

    Article • Environmetrics, June 2005, Wiley

    Gary M Lackmann

  73. An Investigation of the Influence of Latent Heat Release on Cold-Frontal Motion

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, December 2004, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  74. NOWCAST

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, July 2004, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  75. The Importance of the Precipitation Mass Sink in Tropical Cyclones and Other Heavily Precipitating Systems

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, July 2004, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  76. An Analysis of the Impact of a Split-Front Rainband on Appalachian Cold-Air Damming

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, October 2003, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  77. An Objective Climatology, Classification Scheme, and Assessment of Sensible Weather Impacts for Appalachian Cold-Air Damming

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, August 2003, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  78. Model Representation of Freezing and Melting Precipitation: Implications for Winter Weather Forecasting

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, October 2002, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  79. Cold-Frontal Potential Vorticity Maxima, the Low-Level Jet, and Moisture Transport in Extratropical Cyclones

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, January 2002, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  80. Analysis of a Surprise Western New York Snowstorm

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, February 2001, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  81. Energetics of an Intensifying Jet Streak during the Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones over the Atlantic (ERICA)

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, December 1999, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  82. Heavy Cold-Season Precipitation in the Northwestern United States: Synoptic Climatology and an Analysis of the Flood of 17–18 January 1986

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, October 1999, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  83. An Analysis of Hurricane Opal’s Forecast Track Errors Using Quasigeostrophic Potential Vorticity Inversion

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, March 1999, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  84. Moisture Transport Diagnosis of a Wintertime Precipitation Event in the Mackenzie River Basin

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, March 1998, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  85. A Characteristic Life Cycle of Upper-Tropospheric Cyclogenetic Precursors during the Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones over the Atlantic (ERICA)

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, November 1997, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  86. Planetary- and Synoptic-Scale Characteristics of Explosive Wintertime Cyclogenesis Over the Western North Atlantic Ocean

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, December 1996, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  87. The synoptic‐ and planetary‐scale signatures of precipitating systems over the Mackenzie River Basin

    Article • ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN, December 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Gary M Lackmann

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

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, November 1995, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  89. A Satellite-Derived Classification Scheme for Rapid Maritime Cyclogenesis

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, July 1994, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  90. Snowstorms over the Puget Sound Lowlands

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, December 1993, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  91. Atmospheric Structure and Momentum Balance during a Gap-Wind Event in Shelikof Strait, Alaska

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, August 1989, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann

  92. Offshore-Directed Winds in the Vicinity of Prince William Sound, Alaska

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, June 1988, American Meteorological Society

    Gary M Lackmann