Tropical Only Hurricanes
Abstract To help understand the climatology of North Atlantic hurricanes it is useful to distinguish between two types of hurricanes. From the point-of-view of ontogeny, tropicalonly hurricanes originate and develop free of any enhancing middle latitude baroclinic influences. Non-tropical-only hurri...
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Oxford University PressNew York, NY
1999
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195125085.003.0005 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52435214/isbn-9780195125085-book-part-5.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract To help understand the climatology of North Atlantic hurricanes it is useful to distinguish between two types of hurricanes. From the point-of-view of ontogeny, tropicalonly hurricanes originate and develop free of any enhancing middle latitude baroclinic influences. Non-tropical-only hurricanes are baroclinically-enhanced. Motivations for considering tropical-only hurricanes as a separate category of North Atlantic basin hurricanes were presented in Chapter 3. In several ways the origin and development of a tropical-only hurricane represents the maturation of a “classic” (or textbook) tropical cyclone. Many of these hurricanes form from easterly waves traveling at low latitudes across the North Atlantic during August and September. In this chapter a fresh perspective on North Atlantic hurricanes is provided by considering various statistics of tropical-only hurricanes. Comparisons are made between tropical-only and nontropical-only hurricane activity. |
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