Abstract: The objective of this research is to define the meteorological conditions prior to the explosive development of the QE II storm. By using conventional data and detailed McIDAS satellite imagery we document the genesis of ...

Abstract: The existence of convection and the hurricane-like structure in the explosively-developing cyclone studied in Part I motivates us to assess the importance heating had on this cyclogenesis. To accomplish this, a method to ...

Abstract: On Friday, 10 December 1982, a modest, yet unforecasted snowfall occurred in a band extending from the Ohio valley states eastward to western New York State. Aside from this case study representing a crucial forecasting ...

Abstract: The hurricane-force winds and heavy seas which battered the liner Queen Elizabeth II on 10 and 11 September 1978 were associated with an extreme example of a meteorological ?bomb? as defined by Sanders and Gyakum. Despite ...

Abstract: Six years of daily temperature and precipitation forecasting are studied for Urbana, Illinois. Minimum temperature forecast skills, measured against a climatological control, are 57%, 48%, 34% and 20% for the respective ...

Abstract: By defining a ?bomb? as an extratropical surface cyclone whose central pressure fall averages at least 1 mb h?1 for 24 h, we have studied this explosive cyclogenesis in the Northern Hemisphere during the period September ...

Abstract: he community of Tuktoyaktuk (Northwest Territories, Canada) along the Beaufort Sea experiences dramatic shoreline erosion during storm surge events that tend to occur during persistent northwesterly wind events in the late ...

Abstract: In this study, a methodology is proposed to improve the model initial conditions, based on available surface temperature observations from ships, buoys, and drifters. It is tested with the numerical prediction of the 12?14 ...

Abstract: Despite marked improvements in the predictability of rapidly deepening extratropical cyclones, many operational models still have great difficulties in predicting frontal cyclogenesis that often begins as a mesoscale vortex ...