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Baxter, Martin

Professor

FACULTY

Biography

Dr. Marty Baxter has taught synoptic meteorology and forecasting at Central Michigan University since 2006, and has helped develop an undergraduate curriculum that serves a variety of student interests. His research focuses on improving forecasts of precipitation, and he has received several grants from NOAA to work with National Weather Service forecasters on the subject. He has held forecasting, research, and teaching positions at Weather or Not, Inc., the Weather Prediction Center, and the Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training. He has served as a member of the American Meteorological Society’s Weather Analysis and Forecasting committee and Unidata’s Strategic Advisory Committee, and has led several training workshops for forecasters from around the world. He has enjoyed mentoring numerous students who have achieved success in research, broadcasting, and forecasting, and serves as the advisor for our Mid-Mitten Weather View student forecasting group.

More about Martin Baxter

  • Baxter, M.A., 2020: Warming Shrivels Future Snowstorms, Nature Climate Change, 10, 494–495.
  • Baxter, M.A. and P.N. Schumacher, 2017: Distribution of Single-Banded Snowfall in Central United States Cyclones. Weather and Forecasting, 32, 533-554.
  • Baxter, M.A,, G. Lackmann, K. Mahoney, T. Workoff, and T. Hamill, 2014: Verification of Quantitative Precipitation Reforecasts over the Southeast United States. Weather and Forecasting, 29, 1199-1207.
  • Baxter, M.A., P. N. Schumacher, and J. M. Boustead, 2011: The Use of Potential Vorticity Inversion to Evaluate the Effect of Precipitation on Downstream Mesoscale Processes, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 137, 179–198.
  • Baxter, M.A., C.E. Graves, and J.T. Moore, 2005: A Climatology of Snow to Liquid Ratio for the Contiguous United States, Weather and Forecasting, 20, 729-744.

Credentials, Certifications and Awards

  • 2025 Edward N. Lorenz Teaching Excellence Award from the American Meteorological Society
  • 2013-2014 CMU College of Science and Technology Sabbatical Fellowship Award
  • 2012 Editor’s Award from the American Meteorological Society’s Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • 2009-2010 CMU Excellence in Teaching Award Winner
  • Ph.D., Meteorology, St. Louis University, 2006
  • M.S., Meteorology, St. Louis University, 2003
  • B.S., Meteorology, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001
Precipitation Systems, Synoptic Meteorology and Climatology, Numerical Weather Prediction, Weather Forecasting, Forecast Verification, Forecast Communications

Courses Taught

  • MET 160: Professional Development in the Atmospheric Sciences
  • MET 260: Introduction to Atmospheric Science
  • MET 270: Weather Forecasting Practicum
  • MET 275: Introduction to Meteorological Data
  • MET 340: Synoptic Meteorology
  • MET 470: Advanced Weather Forecasting
  • MET 491: Internship