Abstract: This is the second of two papers on tropical storms entering middle latitudes in the southwest Pacific. This study focuses on the heavy rainfall associated with Tropical Cyclone Bola during 6?8 March 1988 following its ...

Abstract: This study surveys life cycle characteristics of cyclones in the Southern Hemisphere (SH). An objective technique for locating instances of cyclone formation, intensification, maturation, and decay is applied to a 7-year ...

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Abstract: A database of tropical cyclone best track and intensity information for the southwest Pacific Ocean basin is used to construct a 28-year climatology for tropical cyclones that move into middle latitudes. Of the nine or so ...

Abstract: This second of two papers on extratropical transition (ET) over the southwest Pacific Ocean focuses on the variability of ET. A climatology of ET onset based on a previously described objective technique shows that ET ...

Abstract: During the period 23?29 December 1978 abnormally high temperatures were recorded at several Antarctic stations. New records were set at South Pole, MeMurdo. and Vostok, and near record high temperatures were reached at ...

Abstract: An updated procedure for objective identification and tracking of surface cyclones from gridded analyses is described. Prior smoothing of the raw data with a constant radius spatial filter is used to remove distortions ...

Abstract: This is the first of two case studies on the transformation of tropical storms in the southwest Pacific. This study uses ECMWF analyses and observations to examine the behavior of Tropical Cyclone Patsy in December 1986 ...

Abstract: An automated procedure for locating and tracking high pressure centers is applied to 10 years of twice-daily ECMWF analyses during 1980?89 to survey the behavior of anticyclones in the Southern Hemisphere. Anticyclones are ...

Abstract: An objective method is developed and used to derive a climatology of centers of cyclonic vorticity for the Southern Hemisphere, based on twice-daily European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) 1000-hPa ...