A Historical Analog of 2005 Hurricane Vince

Vaquero, J. M.; García‐Herrera, Ricardo; Wheeler, Dennis; Chenoweth, Michael; Mock, Cary J.

doi:10.1175/bams-89-2-191

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“…This system developed in an unusual area near the Iberian Peninsula and was first thought to be unprecedented, but at least one analogue back to the beginning of the observations in 1842 has been recently documented (Vaquero et al, 2008). Vince originated from an occluded deep-layer frontal low that moved southeastward across the Azores Islands, eventually becoming cut-off from the westerlies.…”

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Climate perspective on the large‐scale circulation associated with the transition of the first South Atlantic hurricane

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Simmonds

Filho

2008

Intl Journal of Climatology

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ABSTRACT:The landfall of Cyclone Catarina on the Brazilian coast in March 2004 became known as the first documented hurricane in the South Atlantic Ocean, promoting a new view on how large-scale features can contribute to tropical transition. The aim of this paper is to put the large-scale circulation associated with Catarina's transition in climate perspective. This is discussed in the light of a robust pattern of spatial correlations between thermodynamic and dynamic variables of importance for hurricane formation. A discussion on how transition mechanisms respond to the present-day circulation is presented. These associations help in understanding why Catarina was formed in a region previously thought to be hurricane-free.Catarina developed over a large-scale area of thermodynamically favourable air/sea temperature contrast. This aspect explains the paradox that such a rare system developed when the sea surface temperature was slightly below average. But, although thermodynamics played an important role, it is apparent that Catarina would not have formed without the key dynamic interplay triggered by a high latitude blocking. The blocking was associated with an extreme positive phase of the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) both hemispherically and locally, and the nearby area where Catarina developed is found to be more cyclonic during the positive phase of the SAM. A conceptual model is developed and a 'South Atlantic index' is introduced as a useful diagnostic of potential conditions leading to tropical transition in the area, where large-scale indices indicate trends towards more favourable atmospheric conditions for tropical cyclone formation.

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Section: Concluding Discussionmentioning

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Climate perspective on the large‐scale circulation associated with the transition of the first South Atlantic hurricane

Pezza

Simmonds

Filho

2008

Intl Journal of Climatology

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“…As a result one of the first events to be plotted was that of Hurricane II of the 1848 season which formed in the mid Atlantic, skirted the eastern side of the Caribbean and then headed across the Atlantic towards Western Europe tracking just northwest of Ireland and Scotland (Chenoweth 2006). In addition one of the events in this survey Hurricane Vince has a remarkable almost identical event dating from 1842 when event IX which was a Category 2 hurricane eventually struck Spain and Portugal and travelled inland as far as Madrid (Vaquero et al 2008). Numerous events have since being recorded as affecting Western Europe right up to the present day.…”

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The Impact of Hurricanes on the Weather of Western Europe

Hickey¹

2011

Recent Hurricane Research - Climate, Dynamics, and Societal Impacts

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“…Catchpole and Faurer (1983) analyzed freezing and ice breaking dates in the Hudson Bay. They have also been very useful in the analysis of storms and hurricanes (Mock et al, 2010;Vaquero et al, 2008;Wheeler et al, 2009). Chenoweth (2001) used them to estimate the impact of two major volcanic eruptions in the first half of the 19 th century.…”

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