Abstract: Kinematic aspects of winter cold fronts in Florida are examined for a subsynoptic scale representing the frontal wind shift at the earth's surface. Fifteen selected cold fronts are studied by using time series of surface ...

Abstract: Relationships between convergence and rainfall at subsynoptic scales of motion are studied observationally. Data are based on special surface wind and rainfall observations in the South Florida peninsula during the period ...

Abstract: A historical revision of Atlantic tropical cyclones for the period 1851?90 is presented. This work was undertaken with the aim of improving knowledge of the tropical storms and hurricanes in the North Atlantic basin, which ...

Abstract: To examine the hypothesis of a worldwide relation between some lunar periods and tropical disturbances, we collected first-formation dates for 1,013 hurricanes and typhoons and 2,418 tropical storms in both hemispheres. ...

Abstract: A tropical depression approached the Lesser Antilles on 26 July 1969 and remained under radar surveillance for more than 12 hr. Radar echoes observed from Barbados were tracked and used to define a motion field. This motion ...