Abstract: A case study is presented that describes the interaction of Hurricane Bertha (1996) with an extratropical upper-tropospheric trough shortly before the hurricane's landfall in North Carolina. This case study illustrates the ...

Abstract: El Niño?Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a natural, coupled atmospheric?oceanic cycle that occurs in the tropical Pacific Ocean on an approximate timescale of 2?7 yr. ENSO events have been shown in previous studies to be ...

Abstract: A significant number of tropical cyclones move into the midlatitudes and transform into extratropical cyclones. This process is generally referred to as extratropical transition (ET). During ET a cyclone frequently produces ...