This web page is developed and maintained by David Schultz (david.schultz@noaa.gov) of the National Severe Storms Laboratory.

These ideas were jointly developed with Phil Schumacher of the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

We have benefited considerably from the advice and comments of Michael Baldwin, Steven Corfidi, Greg DeVoir, Paul Janish, Ann McCarthy, and Drs. Daniel Keyser, Donald MacGorman, John Molinari, James Moore, Richard Rotunno, David Rust, Terry Schuur, Charles Seman, Alan Thorpe, and Jeff Trapp. Insightful reviews of earlier versions of our manuscript were provided by George Bryan, Ronald Holle, and Drs. David Blanchard, Kerry Emanuel, Jack Kain, Robert Maddox, Jonathan Martin, John Nielsen-Gammon, Paul Roebber, David Stensrud, Robert Weisman, Earle Williams, and Qin Xu. Katherine Day (NOAA Library, Boulder, Colorado) obtained lists of references at our request, assuring a thorough bibliography to draw upon for our review. David Schultz thanks Dr. Charles Doswell III for his invaluable discussions/arguments on atmospheric convection and encouragement during the preparation of this manuscript. This work is inspired by and dedicated to the late Dr. Bernard Vonnegut, who challenged us to scrutinize paradigms.

More recent discussions with Wendy Abshire, Greg Byrd, Rich Dixon, and Steve Zubrick have also influenced my thinking about slantwise convection.

Any mistakes are solely my own.