Allan Frei

Associate Professor
Email: afrei@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: 212-772-5322
Fax: 212-772-5268
Office: 1035 HN

Mailing Address:
Department of Geography
Hunter College of the City University of New York
695 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10065

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Education:

Ph.D. 1997 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Geography
M.S. 1987 New York University, New York, NY, Applied Science
B.A. 1983 New York University, New York, NY, Computer Science

Research Interests:

Climate variations, snow cover fluctuations, water resources

Teaching Interests:

Weather & Climate, Environmental Modeling, and statistics

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Publications:

Stroeve, Julienne, A. Frei, D. Ghatak, and J. McCreight, 2008. Arctic Sea Ice Variability Revisited, Annals of Glaciology, V48, p. 71-81

Brown, Ross D. and Allan Frei, 2007. Comment on "Evaluation of surface albedo and snow cover in AR4 coupled models" by A. Roesch, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, D22102, doi:10.1029/2006JD008339

Randall, D.A., R.A. Wood, S. Bony, R. Colman, T. Fichefet, J. Fyfe, V. Kattsov, A. Pitman, J. Shukla, J. Srinivasan, R.J. Stouffer, A. Sumi and K.E. Taylor, 2007: Climate Models and Their Evaluation. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M.Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA. **Frei is a "Contributing Author" to this IPCC chapter, and therefore his name does not appear on the citation.

Tu, Jun, Zong-Guo Xia, Keith Clarke, Allan Frei, 2007, Impact of Urban Sprawl on Water Quality in Eastern Massachusetts, USA, Environmental Management, 40:183-200

Carpi, A., Frei, A., Cocris, D., McCloskey, R., Contreras, E., & Ferguson, K. (2007) Analytical artifacts produced by a polycarbonate chamber compared to a Teflon chamber for measuring surface mercury fluxes, Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry, 388(2):361-365

Sobolowski, Stefan, and Allan Frei, 2007, Lagged relationships between North American snow mass and atmospheric teleconnection indices, International Journal of Climatology, V27, p. 221-231, DOI: 10.1002/joc.1395

Frei, Allan, Gavin Gong, 2005, Decadal to century scale trends in North American snow extent in coupled Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Models, Geophysical Research Letters, V32 (18), p. L18502 (5 pages).

Frei, Allan, Ross Brown, James A. Miller, David A. Robinson, 2005, Snow mass over North America: observations and results from the second phase of the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP-2), Journal of Hydrometeorology, V6 (5), p. 681-695.

Cohen, Judah, Allan Frei, Richard Rosen, 2005, The role of boundary conditions in AMIP-2 simulations of the NAO, Journal of Climate, V18 (7), p. 973-981
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Frei, Allan, James Miller, David Robinson, 2003. Improved simulations of Snow Extent in the Second Phase of the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP-2). Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 108(D12), 4369, doi:10.1029/2002JD003030.   Click here for full text PDF.

Frei, Allan, Richard L. Armstrong, Martyn P. Clark, and Mark C. Serreze, 2002. Catskill Mountain water resources: Vulnerability, hydroclimatology, and climate change sensitivity, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, V92 (2), p. 203-224  Click here for full text PDF.

Nolin, Anne W. & Allan Frei, 2001. Remote sensing of snow and characterization of snow albedo for climate simulations. chapter in Remote Sensing and Climate Simulations: Synergies and Limitations. (Martin Beniston ed.), vol. 3 in the series Advances in Global Change Research, p.159-180 Click here for full text PDF.

Serreze, Mark C., Martyn P. Clark, and Allan Frei. 2001. Characteristics of large snowfall events in the montane western U.S. as examined using snowpack telemetry (SNOTEL) data. Water Resources Research, 37 (3), 675-688 Click here for full text PDF.

Robinson, David A. & Allan Frei, 2000. Seasonal Variability of Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent using Visible Satellite Data, Professional Geographer, 52 (2), 307-314 Click here for full text PDF.

Frei, Allan & David A. Robinson. 1999. Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent: Regional Variability 1972-1994. International Journal of Climatology, Vol.19, No. 14, p. 1535-1560 Click here for full text PDF.

Frei, Allan, David A. Robinson, & Marilyn G. Hughes. 1999. North American Snow Extent: 1900-1994. International Journal of Climatology, Vol. 19, No. 14, p. 1517-1534   Click here for full text HTML version. Click here for full text PDF.

Frei, Allan & David A. Robinson. 1998. Evaluation of Snow Extent and Its Variability in the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, Vol. 103, No. D8, p. 8859-8871.  Click here for full text PDF versionClick here for full text HTML version.

Frei, Allan, David A. Robinson, & Marilyn G. Hughes. 1996. A Regional Analysis of North American Snow Cover Extent: Climatic and Synoptic Associations from November through March, Proceedings of the 1996 Eastern Snow Conference, May 1996, Williamsburg, Virginia, p. 33-42

Hughes, Marilyn G., Allan Frei, & David A. Robinson. 1996. Historical Analysis of North American snow cover extent: merging satellite and station derived snow cover observations, Proceedings of the 1996 Eastern Snow Conference, May 1996, Williamsburg, Virginia, p. 21-32

Robinson, David A., Allan Frei, & Mark C. Serreze. 1995. Recent Variations and Regional Relationships in Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover, Annals of Glaciology (21), 71-76

Frei, Allan & David A. Robinson. 1993. North American snow cover variability from satellite data: 1972-1993 and comparison with model output. Proceedings of the 50th anniversary meeting of the Eastern Snow Conference, June 1993, 43-50

Frei, Allan, Michael C. MacCracken, & Martin I. Hoffert. 1988. Eustatic Sea Level & CO2. Northeastern Environmental Science, 7(1), 91-96

Hoffert, Martin I., Allan Frei, & Vijay K. Narayanan. 1988. Application of solar max ACRIM data to analysis of solar-driven climatic variability on earth. Climatic Change 13, 267-285

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