• The Physical Basis of Long-Range Weather Forecasts, by Cleveland Abbe published in 1901, Monthly Weather Review.

• Methods in Scientific Weather Analysis and Forecasting: An outline in the history of ideas and hints at a program, by Tor Bergeron, pages 440-474 of Bolin et al. 1959, The Atmosphere and the Sea in Motion.

• The problem of weather prediction, considered from the viewpoints of mechanics and physics, an English translation of Bjernes 1904 paper in Meterological Zeitschrift. For the history wonks, see also this commentary on Bjernes paper by Gramelsberger.

• Richardson's Marvelous Forecast, by Peter Lynch, pages 61-73 of The Life Cycle of Extratropical Cyclones, edited by Shapiro and Gronas.

• Selections [to be determined!] from Weather Prediction by Numerical Process. Richardson's 1922 ultimately unsuccessful effor to predict the weather with a "human computer".

• Further selections [to be determined!] from Weather Prediction by Numerical Process. Richardson, 1922.

• Charney, Fjortoff, and von Neuman, 1950, Tellus. The first successful numerical forecast.

2/26: Rossby waves: The bread and butter of synoptic meteorology

• Relation between variations in the intensity of the zonal circulation of the atmosphere and the displacements of the semi permanent centers of action, Rossby and coauthors, J. Marine Res., 1939.

• The Life Cycles of Some Nonlinear Baroclinic Waves, Simmons and Hoskins, J. Atmos. Sci., 1978.

• Numerical Simulations of Cylcone Life Cycles, A. Simmons, pages 123-137 of The Life Cycle of Extratropical Cyclones, edited by Shapiro and Gronas.

3/19: On links between scales: Planetary, Synoptic, and Mesoscale

• Planetary Waves and Their Interaction with Smaller Scales, I. Held, pages 101-109 of The Life Cycle of Extratropical Cyclones, edited by Shapiro and Gronas.

• A Plaentary-Scale to Mesoscale Perspective of the Life Cycles of Extratropical Cyclones: The Bridge between Theory and Observation, Shapiro et al., pages 139-185 of The Life Cycle of Extratropical Cyclones, edited by Shapiro and Gronas.

• Finish up discussion on Shapiro et al. review.

• Observed Cyclone Life Cycles, L. Bozart, pages 187-213 of The Life Cycle of Extratropical Cyclones, edited by Shapiro and Gronas.

• On the formation of Fronts in the Atmosphere, A. Eliassen, pages 277-286 of Bolin et al. 1959, The Atmosphere and the Sea in Motion.

• Theories of Frontogenesis, H. Davies, pages 215-238 of The Life Cycle of Extratropical Cyclones, edited by Shapiro and Gronas.

• Atmospheric Frontogenesis Models: Mathematical Formulation and Solution, Hoskins and Bretherton, JAS, 1972.

• The Geostrophic Momentum Approximation and the Semi-Geostrophic Equations, B. Hoskins, JAS, 1975.

• On reanalysis -- selections from: Introduction to the SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP) and overview of the reanalysis systems Fujiwara et al., ACP, 2017.

• Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow, E. Lorenz, JAS, 1963.

• On the formation of Typhoons, H. Riehl, J. Metorology, 1948

• On the Structure and Maintenance of the Mature Hurrican Eye, J. Malkus, J. Metorology, 1958.

• Some Relations Between Wind and Thermal Structure of Steady State Hurricanes, H. Riehl, JAS, 1963.

• Air Mass and Isentropic Analysis, A 1940 collection edited by Jerome Namias.

• The Atmosphere and the Sea in Motion: Scientific contributions to the Rossby Memorial Volume, published in 1959.

• The Thermal Theory of Cyclones: A history of Meteorological Thought in the Nineteenth Century by Gisela Kutzbach

• The Life Cycle of Extratropical Cyclones, a 1999 monograph edited by Melvyn Shapiro and Sigbjorn Gronas.

• Synoptic-Dynamic Meteorology and Weather Analysis and Forecasting: A tribute to Fred Sanders, edited by Lance Bosart and Howard Bluestein.