Intensification of Hurricane Sandy (2012) through extratropical warm core seclusion

• Published in: Monthly Weather Review
• Other Authors: Galarneau, Thomas (author), Davis, Christopher (author), Shapiro, Melvyn (author)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Meteorological Society 2013
• Subjects: Convective storms; Dynamics; Hurricanes; Mesoscale processes; Extreme events; Tropical cyclones; Tilting; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://nldr.library.ucar.edu/repository/collections/OSGC-000-000-020-206; https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-13-00181.1

Hurricane Sandy's landfall along the New Jersey shoreline at 2330 UTC 29 October 2012 produced a catastrophic storm surge stretching from New Jersey to Rhode Island that contributed to damage in excess of $50 billion—the sixth costliest U.S. tropical cyclone on record since 1900—and directly ca...