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

[ Education | Interests | Projects | Students | Courses | Publications | Links ]

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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, Earth Systems Science

Current Projects:

• Understand linkages between sea ice and snow cover in the Arctic Climate System
• Evaluate potential impacts of climate change on New York City water supply
• Evaluate climate impacts on the terrestrial mercury cycle

Students:

Current Graduate Student Advisees:

• Debjani Ghatak 

Graduated Master Students:

• Richard Swanson (May 2002)

• Samual Kess (January 2003)

• Joanna Grossman (2005)
• Stefan Sobolowski (2005)

Courses:

• PGEOG 130 - Weather and Climate

• PGEOG 250 - Earth Systems Science I

• PGEOG 251 - Earth Systems Science II

• GTECH 704.52 - Introduction to Environmental Modeling

• GTECH 702 - Quantitative Methods 2: Multivariate Statistics and Regression Analysis

• GTECH 703.56 - Applied Statistics in Hydrology

• GEOG 383.28/705.28 - Environmental Ethics 

Publications: Since 2005

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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Links:

• Association of American Geographers Cryosphere Specialty Group