Abstract: The primary objectives of this study were 1) to test the ability of a high-resolution (40 km) limited-area model to successfully simulate a meso-α-scale case of polar airstream cyclogenesis, 2) to examine the effects of ...

Abstract: Significant downslope wind and warming events periodically occur along a short segment of the southern California coast in the vicinity of Santa Barbara. This region is characterized by a unique mesoscale topography:over ...

Abstract: Rotated principal component (RPC) analysis, subject to the varimax criterion and including area weighting, is applied to a 58-yr record (1931?88) of monthly- and seasonal-mean Climatic Division precipitation anomalies for ...

Abstract: A case study is presented of the development within a polar air stream of a comma-shaped cloud pattern (comma cloud) and associated small surface cyclone. The disturbance is traced from the time of its development over the ...

Abstract: In a companion paper the authors presented a case study of the development of a comma-shaped cloud pattern and associated small cyclone that formed in a cold air mass over the eastern Pacific. This paper confirms the ...

Abstract: Climatological analyses of tornado occurrence in the state of California for the period 1950?1992 are presented. In constructing these analyses, the official historical record of California tornadoes was supplemented and ...

Abstract: Observation taken during the Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones over the Atlantic (ERICA) have permitted analyses of explosive oceanic cyclogenesis of unprecedented detail. The most intense of the cyclones that ...

Abstract: Within the period of the historical record there have been several occurrences of extensive damage from storm-surge-related coastal flooding in the region of Nome, Alaska. The most recent of these events, although by no ...

Abstract: On 4 May 1998, a pair of tornadoes occurred in the San Francisco Bay Area in the cities of Sunnyvale (F2 on the Fujita scale) and Los Altos (F1). The parent thunderstorm was anticyclonically rotating and produced tornadoes ...