An Extratropical Cyclone Atlas: A Tool for Illustrating Cyclone Structure and Evolution Characteristics
An Extratropical Cyclone Atlas: A Tool for Illustrating Cyclone Structure and Evolution Characteristics
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温带气旋图集:说明气旋结构和演化特征的工具
DOI:
10.1175/bams-d-11-00164.1
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发表时间:
2012
影响因子:
8
通讯作者:
Stringer M
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作者:
Stringer M
BY HF DACRE, MK HAWCROFT, MA STRINGER, AND KI HODGES case studies have contributed significantly to the generation of three-dimensional conceptual models of extratropical cyclones that provide a framework for understanding their dynamical evolution. These conceptual models are widely used in educational meteorology courses and texts throughout the world to illustrate the basic structure and evolution of extratropical cyclones.The aim of this article is to go beyond individual case study analysis and introduce and promote the use of a comprehensive set of quantitative analyses describing the structure and evolution characteristics of 200 composited North Atlantic cyclones from 1989 to 2009. It is hoped that both teachers and researchers of extratropical cyclone dynamics will make use of the analyzed fields in the atlas, which is freely available via the storms project website (www. met. rdg. ac. uk/~ storms). Some examples of how this atlas could be used for teaching are provided in the summary. The atlas has been created to explore the mean structure and evolution of the 200 most intense North Atlantic cyclones identified in 20 winters of the ERA-Interim reanalysis data. The method used to create the composite fields is described in section 2. In sections 3 and 4, vertical and horizontal composites of cyclone structure for cyclones generated in the North Atlantic regions are used to subjectively identify features such as the relative positions of cold, warm, and occluded fronts and their associated wind and cloud patterns. Section 5 illustrates the evolution of cyclonic flows such as the warm and cold conveyor belts and dry intrusion. A summary is presented in section 6.
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