The following is a glossary of tropical cyclone terms. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z References Advisory Official information...
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Tropical cyclones portal Weather portal Glossary of tropical cyclone terms "Glossary of NHC Terms". www.nhc.noaa.gov. "Glossary of NHC Terms". www.nhc...
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Glossary of meteorology Glossary of climate change Glossary of tropical cyclone terms List of cloud types List of severe weather phenomena List of tornadoes...
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extratropical cyclones of the largest scale (the synoptic scale). Warm-core cyclones such as tropical cyclones and subtropical cyclones also lie within...
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as "depressions" or "lows". Terms like frontal cyclone, frontal depression, frontal low, extratropical low, non-tropical low and hybrid low are often...
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A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral...
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Atlantic hurricane (redirect from Atlantic tropical cyclone)
a type of tropical cyclone that forms in the Atlantic Ocean primarily between June and November. The terms "hurricane", "typhoon", and "cyclone" can be...
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is an extra-tropical cyclone?". NOAA. Retrieved 2006-07-25. Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology (2006). Appendix G: Glossary. Archived 2009-02-25...
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Typhoon (redirect from Tropical cyclone in Philippines)
typhoon is a tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere and which produces sustained hurricane-force winds of at least...
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such as the magnitudes of day-to-day or year-to-year variations. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2001 glossary definition is as follows:...
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A subtropical cyclone is a weather system that has some characteristics of both tropical and extratropical cyclones. As early as the 1950s, meteorologists...
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tornadoes, gravity waves, tropical cyclones, extratropical cyclones, jet streams, and global-scale circulations. The goal of dynamical studies is to explain...
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bodies to coastal areas threatened by the imminent approach of a tropical cyclone of tropical storm or hurricane intensity. They are notices to the local...
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Accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) is a metric used to compare overall activity of tropical cyclones, utilizing the available records of windspeeds at six-hour...
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Climatology (redirect from History of climatology)
Climate reanalysis Geophysics Tropical cyclone rainfall climatology Urban climatology List of climate scientists List of women climate scientists and activists...
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mature low-pressure areas, including cyclones. The cold and warm fronts curve naturally poleward into the point of occlusion, which is also known as the...
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The eye is a region of mostly calm weather at the center of a tropical cyclone. The eye of a storm is a roughly circular area, typically 30–65 kilometers...
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Landfall (category Tropical cyclone meteorology)
kill tropical cyclones? Archived 2009-05-06 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 2009-02-05. National Hurricane Center (2009). Glossary of NHC Terms: Direct...
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Meteorology (redirect from Slight Risk Of Severe Thunderstorms)
experienced a tropical cyclone, which led to the first written European account of a hurricane. In 1686, Edmund Halley presented a systematic study of the trade...
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Mesoscale convective system (section Tropical cyclone)
Questions: What is an extra-tropical cyclone?". NOAA. Retrieved 2007-03-23. National Hurricane Center (2005). "Glossary of NHC/TPC Terms". National Oceanic and...
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Low-pressure area (redirect from Area of low pressure)
analysis Tropical wave Trough (meteorology) Weather map "Cyclone". American Meteorological Society. amsglossary.allenpress.com. Glossary of Meteorology...
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Cloud physics (redirect from Physics of clouds)
series of discrete packets of moist air rising to form clouds. This process occurs when one or more of three possible lifting agents—cyclonic/frontal...
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Anticyclone (redirect from Anti-cyclone)
aloft can form within warm-core lows such as tropical cyclones, due to descending cool air from the backside of upper troughs such as polar highs, or from...
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Cyclogenesis (redirect from Temperate cyclone)
result in the development of some sort of cyclone, and at any size from the microscale to the synoptic scale. Tropical cyclones form due to latent heat...
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Severe weather (section Tropical cyclone)
thunderstorms, downbursts, tornadoes, waterspouts, tropical cyclones, and extratropical cyclones. Regional and seasonal phenomena include blizzards (snowstorms)...
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November. In the Southern Hemisphere, the tropical cyclone season runs from the start of November until the end of April with peaks in mid-February to early...
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Atmospheric physics (category Branches of meteorology)
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Retrieved on 2009-04-23. Glossary of Meteorology (2009). Radar. American Meteorological Society. Retrieved...
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Explosive cyclogenesis (redirect from Bomb cyclone)
of the tropical rapid deepening. Although their cyclogenesis is entirely different from that of tropical cyclones, bomb cyclones can produce winds of...
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