Abstract: During summer the meteorological conditions in the lower troposphere between the anticyclonic-shear (north) side and cyclonic-shear side of the midtropospheric easterly jet over North Africa are rather different. A significant ...

Abstract: The diabatic effects of latent heat release, boundary layer moisture and heat flux from the ocean surface and large-scale forcing due to upper-level systems are three physical processes affecting oceanic cyclogenesis. ...

Abstract: A severe extratropical cyclcone was initiated from a low-level medium-scale cyclone over the ocean northeast of Taiwan during the initial phase of the AMTEX '75. The analyses of Soliz and Fein were used to examine the time ...