Phillip Kurimski's Bachelor's Thesis Abstract


CLIMATOLOGY OF RAPID CYCLOGENESIS IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

     Some middle latitude cyclones undergo rapid strengthening, or explosive Cyclogenesis, over the warmer water of the North Atlantic Ocean. Any storm registering a sea-level pressure decrease of at least one "Bergeron" in a twenty-four hour period is treated as undergoing explosive Cyclogenesis.
     Using storm data assembled by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), the climatology of rapid cyclogenesis for 5 x 5 latitude-longitude squares within the region from 30N to 60N, 0 to 75W was compiled. The study period includes the winter months from 1967 to 1993. Explosive marine Cyclogenesis is concentrated in a narrow area just to the south of Newfoundland with yearly probability of about 0.92 per year. This represents 21% of all storms forming or passing though this area. Based on a Chi-Squared analysis, the normality of the deepening and filling rate curves was done for all storms which passed through the box from 1982 to 1993.

State University College at Brockport, 1997
Under the Supervision of Dr. Jose Maliekal

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