WMO/CAS/WWW SIXTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on TROPICAL CYCLONES Topic 2a: The Catarina Phenomenon Rapporteur:

Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) warmer than 26.5 o C and Environmental Vertical Wind Shear (EVWS, defined as the magnitude of the difference between the 200 and 850 hPa vector winds) lower than 8 m/s offer ideal conditions for Tropical Cyclone (TC) development. Thus it has been accepted that hurrica...

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Main Authors: Pedro L. Silva Dias, Manoel Gan, John L. Beven, Re Pezza, Greg Holl, Augusto Pereira, Francisco De Assis Diniz, Marcelo Seluchi, Hugo J. Braga
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Subjects:
South Atlantic Ocean
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.175.5041
http://severe.worldweather.org/iwtc/document/Topic_2a_Pedro_Silva_Dias.pdf
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Summary:Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) warmer than 26.5 o C and Environmental Vertical Wind Shear (EVWS, defined as the magnitude of the difference between the 200 and 850 hPa vector winds) lower than 8 m/s offer ideal conditions for Tropical Cyclone (TC) development. Thus it has been accepted that hurricanes could not form over the South Atlantic Ocean due to the very intense climatological vertical wind shear

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