1 The 2005 North Atlantic Hurricane Season A Climate Perspective

• Main Authors: Gerald Bell, Eric Blake, Chris L, Kingtse Mo, Richard Pasch, Muthuvel Chelliah, Stanley Goldenberg
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.490.6431; http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/outlooks/hurrsummary_2005.pdf

many tropical cyclone records. The season featured a record 27 tropical storms (TS), a record 15 hurri-canes (H), a record three category-5 hurricanes, a record estimated Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) index (Bell et al. 2000) of 285 % of the median (Fig. 1), and an ACE contribu-tion of 131 % of the median from named storms forming outside the Main Develop-ment region [MDR, consisting of the tropi-cal Atlantic and Caribbean Sea south of 21.5°N]. The season also featured a record fifteen landfalling named storms in the At-lantic Basin, a record four landfalling U.S. major hurricanes [MH, defined as catego-ries 3-5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale