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) …

Cloud venting—A review and some new global annual estimates

WR Cotton, GD Alexander, R Hertenstein… - Earth-Science …, 1995 - Elsevier
In this paper we review observational and modeling studies of cloud venting by a wide
variety of cloud types ranging from ordinary cumuli, to ordinary cumulonimbi, mesoscale …

[KNJIGA][B] Synoptic-dynamic Meteorology in Midlatitudes: Observations and theory of weather systems

HB Bluestein - 1992 - books.google.com
Synoptic meteorology, the study of large-scale weather systems and forecasting using
observation, and dynamic meteorology, the study of the laws of physics involved in air …

A potential vorticity-based study of the role of diabatic heating and friction in a numerically simulated baroclinic cyclone

MT Stoelinga - Monthly weather review, 1996 - journals.ametsoc.org
A particularly intense case of western Atlantic baroclinic cyclogenesis was investigated in
this study. Specifically, the roles of latent heat of condensation and surface friction were …

The Presidents' Day cyclone of 18–19 February 1979: Influence of upstream trough amplification and associated tropopause folding on rapid cyclogenesis

LW Uccellini, D Keyser, KF Brill… - Monthly Weather …, 1985 - journals.ametsoc.org
A diagnostic analysis of an amplifying polar jet-trough system and associated tropopause
fold which preceded the 19 February 1979 Presidents' Day cyclone is presented. The …

A variational continuous assimilation technique

JC Derber - Monthly weather review, 1989 - journals.ametsoc.org
A variational assimilation technique is presented which continuously adjusts a model
solution by introducing a correction term to the model equations. The technique is …

Processes contributing to the rapid development of extratropical cyclones

LW Uccellini - Extratropical Cyclones: The Erik Palmén Memorial …, 1990 - Springer
The study of extratropical cyclones has provided the basis for vigorous scientific debates
within the meteorological community for at least the past 150 years. In her monograph …

Extratropical cyclones: A century of research on meteorology's centerpiece

DM Schultz, LF Bosart, BA Colle… - Meteorological …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
The year 1919 was important in meteorology, not only because it was the year that the
American Meteorological Society was founded, but also for two other reasons. One of the …

The life cycle of an extratropical marine cyclone. Part I: Frontal-cyclone evolution and thermodynamic air-sea interaction

PJ Neiman, MA Shapiro - Monthly Weather Review, 1993 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones over the Atlantic was carried out
over the western North Atlantic Ocean to provide temporally continuous comprehensive …

Effects of surface energy fluxes during the early development and rapid intensification stages of seven explosive cyclones in the western Atlantic

YH Kuo, S Low-Nam, RJ Reed - Monthly Weather Review, 1991 - journals.ametsoc.org
A series of eight numerical experiments were conducted on seven cases of explosive
marine cyclogenesis, using the Pennsylvania State University/National Center for …