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The North Pacific and Bering Sea regions represent loci of cyclogenesis and storm track activity. In this paper climatological properties of extratropical storms in the North Pacific/Bering Sea are presented based upon aggregate statistics of individual storm tracks calculated by means of a feature-...

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Main Authors: Michel D. S. Mesquita, David E. Atkinson, Kevin I. Hodges
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2009
Subjects:
D8BEBCE
BE
Bering Sea
Pacific
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.654.9737
http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/5768/1/jclim6.pdf
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Summary:The North Pacific and Bering Sea regions represent loci of cyclogenesis and storm track activity. In this paper climatological properties of extratropical storms in the North Pacific/Bering Sea are presented based upon aggregate statistics of individual storm tracks calculated by means of a feature-tracking algorithm run using NCEP–NCAR reanalysis data from 1948/49 to 2008, provided by the NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Climate Diagnostics Center. Storm identification is based on the 850-hPa relative vorticity field (z) instead of the often-used mean sea level pressure; z is a prognostic field, a good indicator of synoptic-scale dynamics, and is directly related to

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