The extratropical transition of tropical cyclones: Forecast challenges, current understanding, and future directions

SC Jones, PA Harr, J Abraham… - Weather and …, 2003‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
A significant number of tropical cyclones move into the midlatitudes and transform into
extratropical cyclones. This process is generally referred to as extratropical transition (ET) …

100 years of progress in tropical cyclone research

K Emanuel - Meteorological Monographs, 2018‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
A century ago, meteorologists regarded tropical cyclones as shallow vortices, extending
upward only a few kilometers into the troposphere, and nothing was known about their …

A cyclone phase space derived from thermal wind and thermal asymmetry

RE Hart - Monthly weather review, 2003‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
An objectively defined three-dimensional cyclone phase space is proposed and explored.
Cyclone phase is described using the parameters of storm-motion-relative thickness …

The extratropical transition of tropical cyclones. Part I: Cyclone evolution and direct impacts

C Evans, KM Wood, SD Aberson… - Monthly Weather …, 2017‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Extratropical transition (ET) is the process by which a tropical cyclone, upon encountering a
baroclinic environment and reduced sea surface temperature at higher latitudes, transforms …

Subtropical cyclones over the oceanic basins: a review

RP da Rocha, MS Reboita, LF Gozzo… - Annals of the New …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Subtropical cyclones are hybrid systems presenting a warm core at low levels, as tropical
cyclones, and a cold core at upper levels, as extratropical cyclones. Their genesis can be as …

The key role of diabatic processes in modifying the upper‐tropospheric wave guide: a North Atlantic case‐study

CM Grams, H Wernli, M Böttcher… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
This study highlights the importance of diabatic processes for the complex interaction of
weather systems in the North Atlantic–European sector during the week of 7–14 September …

The extratropical transition and precipitation distribution of Hurricane Floyd (1999)

EH Atallah, LF Bosart - Monthly Weather Review, 2003‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Several recent landfalling tropical cyclones (eg, Dennis, Floyd, and Irene 1999) have
highlighted a need for a refinement in the forecasting paradigms and techniques in the area …

Regional climate model projections of rainfall from US landfalling tropical cyclones

DB Wright, TR Knutson, JA Smith - Climate dynamics, 2015‏ - Springer
Abstract The eastern United States is vulnerable to flooding from tropical cyclone rainfall.
Understanding how both the frequency and intensity of this rainfall will change in the future …

Precipitation distribution associated with landfalling tropical cyclones over the eastern United States

E Atallah, LF Bosart, AR Aiyyer - Monthly Weather Review, 2007‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Tropical cyclones (TCs) making landfall over the United States are examined by separating
those associated with precipitation predominantly left of their tracks from those with the same …

Intensification of Hurricane Sandy (2012) through extratropical warm core seclusion

TJ Galarneau Jr, CA Davis… - Monthly Weather …, 2013‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Hurricane Sandy's landfall along the New Jersey shoreline at 2330 UTC 29 October 2012
produced a catastrophic storm surge stretching from New Jersey to Rhode Island that …