MU-Piedmont-area Arctic Storm Tracking (MU-PAST) is a research project involving over 35 undergraduate meteorology majors designed to study the structure and evolution of winter season Arctic fronts as they progress across the Appalachian piedmont region. The project takes a 3-pronged approach: 1) a climatological study of cold fronts affecting the region; 2) a field campaign where three teams conducted balloon-borne upper-air profiles; and 3) a numerical simulation initialized with observational data.
