Abstract: Subtropical cyclones (ST) have only recently gained attention as damaging weather systems. A set of criteria for identifying and classifying these systems is introduced here and employed to identify 18 ST cases forming in ...

Abstract: A 45-yr climatology of subtropical cyclones (ST) for the North Atlantic is presented and analyzed. The STs pose a warm-season forecasting problem for subtropical locations such as Bermuda and the southern United States ...

Abstract: major hurricane [96+ knots (kt; 1 kt = 0.51 m s?1) of maximum sustained wind] has not made landfall in the United States since Wilma (2005). Recent elegant stochastic?statistical modeling estimates the return period of a ...