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Sabtu, 2026-06-06 00:15:30In fluid dynamics, the baroclinity (often called baroclinicity) of a stratified fluid is a measure of how misaligned the gradient of pressure is from...
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Jumat, 2024-11-01 20:08:56A weather front is a boundary separating air masses for which several characteristics differ, such as air density, wind, temperature, and humidity. Disturbed...
Click to read more »Baroclinic instabilities in the ocean
Selasa, 2025-11-04 10:24:24A baroclinic instability is a fluid dynamical instability of fundamental importance in the atmosphere and ocean. It can lead to the formation of transient...
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Selasa, 2026-02-24 04:25:50well.[citation needed] Extratropical cyclones are classified mainly as baroclinic, because they form along zones of temperature and dewpoint gradient known...
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Senin, 2025-10-06 19:41:17a lack of fronts, as in the tropics. If there are fronts, the flow is baroclinic, and instabilities such as cyclones can occur. Coriolis effect Circulation...
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Rabu, 2026-05-06 23:26:14variation of geostrophic wind in a barotropic atmosphere (a) and in a baroclinic atmosphere (b). The blue portion of the surface denotes a cold region...
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Selasa, 2025-09-23 02:35:24a variation in temperature over some horizontal distance. Also called baroclinic flow, the thermal wind varies with height in proportion to the horizontal...
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Selasa, 2025-11-25 23:32:14Atmospheric sciences Institutions Saint Louis University Thesis On the Influence of Field of Motion, Baroclinicity and Heat Sources on Frontogenesis (1965)...
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Rabu, 2026-03-25 19:00:50front, also known as baiu front, is a persistent nearly stationary weak baroclinic zone in the lower troposphere. It is located over the east coast of China...
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Selasa, 2026-05-19 01:50:16directly without the influence of other fronts during the wrap-up of the baroclinic zone during cyclogenesis, and then lengthen due to flow deformation and...
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Minggu, 2026-06-07 05:39:53for expanding Hadley cells have been proposed, involving changes in baroclinicity, wave breaking and other releases of instability. In the extratropics...
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Kamis, 2024-02-01 19:41:36The Eady model is an atmospheric model for baroclinic instability first posed by British meteorologist Eric Eady in 1949 based on his PhD work at Imperial...
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Selasa, 2026-05-12 07:57:12mid-latitudes, convective precipitation is intermittent and often associated with baroclinic boundaries such as cold fronts, squall lines, and warm fronts. Orographic...
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Minggu, 2026-01-18 01:40:14breaks spontaneously. The RT instability can be seen as the result of baroclinic torque created by the misalignment of the pressure and density gradients...
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Jumat, 2026-03-20 03:41:22forms through the interactions between cold and warm air, known as baroclinicity. The pressure and temperature gradients between warm and cold air cause...
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Minggu, 2026-05-24 22:30:45integrate effects from sediment transport, ice, waves, surface runoff, and baroclinicity. The model is free, with source code made available by request via the...
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Kamis, 2026-03-12 06:47:03in large regions of enhanced mid-latitude temperature contrasts called baroclinic zones. These zones contract and form weather fronts as the cyclonic circulation...
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Minggu, 2026-03-22 11:15:14and long waves a westward group velocity. The terms "barotropic" and "baroclinic" are used to distinguish the vertical structure of Rossby waves. Barotropic...
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Kamis, 2024-11-07 04:48:51meteorology researcher and author of the Eady Model of baroclinic instability, modelling baroclinic generation of weather systems. Eady was born in Ealing...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-30 04:47:22of downdrafts, particularly the rear-flank downdraft, and the role of baroclinic boundaries, are intense areas of study. Reliably predicting tornado intensity...
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Minggu, 2026-02-08 11:29:26Anticyclogenesis Arcus cloud Atmosphere Atmospheric pressure Baroclinity or baroclinicity – baroclinic Barotropity or barotropicity – barotropic Bear's cage – (tornado...
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Rabu, 2026-06-03 11:31:50cyclone rapidly intensifies, dropping at least 24 millibars over 24 hours." Baroclinic instability has been cited as one of the principal mechanisms for the...
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Minggu, 2026-06-07 11:05:02Krosa would undergo extratropical transition as it crossed into the baroclinic zone to the north. A tropical depression developed southeast of Okinawa...
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Rabu, 2025-08-20 06:44:35ideal gas or an isentropic ideal gas. A fluid which is not barotropic is baroclinic, i. e., pressure is not the only factor to determine density. For a barotropic...
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Kamis, 2026-06-04 22:16:53intensified into a powerful, hurricane-force extratropical low on August 8 as baroclinic processes continued to strengthen the cyclone. As the following days passed...
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Jumat, 2026-05-29 04:42:02by synoptic meteorology include events such as extratropical cyclones, baroclinic troughs and ridges, frontal zones, and to some extent jet streams. All...
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Jumat, 2026-05-29 07:23:49disks: vorticity generation and angular momentum transport via the global baroclinic instability". The Astrophysical Journal. 582 (2): 869–892. arXiv:astro-ph/0211629...
Click to read more »Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
Kamis, 2026-05-07 11:59:25slowing of the AMOC will intensify severe weather because it increases baroclinicity and accelerates northeasterly winds up to 10–20% throughout the mid-latitude...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-30 11:18:31and led to a sharp contrast in temperature from north to south. Such baroclinic zones are also associated with tornadic storms. Ahead of the surface dry...
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Sabtu, 2025-03-29 14:29:51hurricane of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season, Pablo originated from a baroclinic cyclone a few hundred miles west of the Azores Islands. The precursor...
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Minggu, 2026-03-29 22:20:30in global climate modelling, he presented a mathematical solution to baroclinicity in 1982. The following year, with G. L. Stenchikov, he used the model...
Click to read more »David O. Blanchard
Rabu, 2026-03-25 17:07:03in seminal research on tornadogenesis, specifically the importance of baroclinic boundaries, the rear-flank downdraft (RFD) and its thermodynamic characteristics...
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Kamis, 2026-03-19 06:59:01constitutive model Biot instability (surface wrinkling in elastomers) Baroclinic instability Fluid instabilities occur in liquids, gases and plasmas, and...
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Minggu, 2026-02-08 06:48:38There are two parts that make up the Labrador Current. The first part is baroclinic, meaning that the density depends on temperature and pressure, and is...
Click to read more »Rossby radius of deformation
Sabtu, 2025-09-27 23:46:53same latitude and gravity but changing D to 40 m; LR ≈ 200 km. The nth baroclinic Rossby radius is: L R , n ≡ N H n π f 0 {\displaystyle L_{R,n}\equiv {\frac...
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Kamis, 2026-03-26 14:52:40connected with the convection zone and driven by the interplay between baroclinicity and Maxwell stresses. Helioseismology benefits most from continuous...
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Minggu, 2026-06-07 07:58:01Pacific during the warm season. The jet exhibits both barotropic and baroclinic instability, which produces synoptic-scale, westward-propagating disturbances...
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Selasa, 2025-08-05 19:47:44of cold air and another hot one along a thin ribbon called a frontal baroclinic zone. We then have the creation of a jet stream that plunges the cold...
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Jumat, 2026-06-05 11:47:19events and extra-tropical cyclones and other events deriving power from baroclinic sources. Only in 40 to 65 percent or so of the United States resting on...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-23 13:06:53mid-latitudes, convective precipitation is intermittent and often associated with baroclinic boundaries such as cold fronts, squall lines, and warm fronts. Orographic...
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Rabu, 2026-05-13 03:42:32UTC, the JTWC issued its final warning as the system headed into the baroclinic zone and cooler sea surface temperatures of 24°C. On 3 April, the Fiji...
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Senin, 2026-05-04 08:51:13convective envelope Vertical wind shear Sea surface temperature (SST) Baroclinicity Core temperature anomaly Low-level circulation position relative to...
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Rabu, 2026-01-21 11:17:30horizontal gradients in temperature and dew point otherwise known as "baroclinic zones". The descriptor "extratropical" refers to the fact that this type...
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Minggu, 2026-05-31 06:38:37$125 million in damage throughout the United States. On October 22, a baroclinic low developed over the central Atlantic. The low soon generated gale-force...
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Selasa, 2025-11-18 09:04:02density stratification; the free atmosphere vertical wind shear or baroclinicity. A convective planetary boundary layer is a type of planetary boundary...
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Minggu, 2026-02-01 19:51:46temperature (or in an ocean with horizontal gradients of density), i.e., baroclinicity. In a barotropic atmosphere, where temperature is uniform, the geostrophic...
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Kamis, 2026-03-19 03:06:15direction of geostrophic winds. Geostrophic flows may be barotropic or baroclinic. A geostrophic current may also be thought of as a rotating shallow water...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-09 23:00:06formed off the coast of Brazil on 15 May 2004. On 22 February 2006, a baroclinic cyclone intensified quickly and was estimated to have peaked with 1-minute...
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Selasa, 2024-04-16 01:35:32synoptic-scale convergence, is associated with weather systems such as baroclinic troughs, low-pressure areas, and cyclones. The large-scale convergence...
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Senin, 2025-04-28 05:19:01M., Añel J.A., Gimeno L. (2008). A climatology based on reanalysis of baroclinic developmental regions in the extratropical northern hemisphere. Ann New...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-23 04:54:37structures are driven by equatorial modons coupled with convectively baroclinic Kelvin waves (CCBCKWs). This mechanism suggests that Y-shaped structures...
Click to read more »1928 Okeechobee hurricane
Minggu, 2026-04-19 18:00:04cyclone, although it restrengthened slightly to hurricane strength, due to baroclinic forcing caused by a frontal system. The cyclone turned to the north-northwest...
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Sabtu, 2026-06-06 09:00:59continental-scale topographic structures on its hemispheric asymmetry in baroclinic wave activity. Icarus, 444. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2025.116833 Haberle,...
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Jumat, 2025-10-31 00:26:57of Alaska is strongly baroclinic. Precipitation and coastal runoff reduce the water density on the shelf. Due to the baroclinic density field, the Alaska...
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Kamis, 2025-11-06 21:18:32Norte, Federico; Saulo, A. (2006). "Influence of the Subtropical Andes on Baroclinic Disturbances: A Cold Front Case Study" (PDF). Monthly Weather Review....
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Rabu, 2026-05-27 06:26:53instability at least at the time of the Cassini encounter), or possibly baroclinic instabilities remain as the most viable explanations for Saturn's sustained...
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Jumat, 2026-05-01 04:04:42mid-latitudes, convective precipitation is intermittent and often associated with baroclinic boundaries such as cold fronts, squall lines, and warm fronts. High rainfall...
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Senin, 2026-03-02 22:02:38M., Añel J.A., Gimeno L. (2008). A climatology based on reanalysis of baroclinic developmental regions in the extratropical northern hemisphere. Annals...
Click to read more »Typhoon Ma-on (2004)
Minggu, 2026-05-03 02:43:24began to intensify rapidly as conditions favored bombogenesis of the baroclinic system. It is not certain whether this system was predominantly the remnants...
Click to read more »1964 Atlantic hurricane season
Minggu, 2026-05-31 01:35:40depression intensified into a tropical storm. Based on ship data and baroclinic intensification, the storm likely peaked with maximum sustained winds...
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Selasa, 2026-03-10 01:01:26tropospheric horizontal temperature gradients, eddy kinetic energy and baroclinicity, which drive more powerful storms. A 2018 study based on cave formations...
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Jumat, 2026-06-05 20:10:442026, as a significant impact was forecasted. Kristin developed from a baroclinic disturbance generated by Storm Joseph, which subsequently developed into...
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Senin, 2026-01-19 23:00:32Agnes re-strengthened into a tropical storm on June 21, as a result of baroclinic activity. Early the following day, the storm emerged into the Atlantic...
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Minggu, 2026-05-31 16:35:42of Yokosuka, Japan. Then at 18:00 UTC on May 31, Ewiniar entered the baroclinic zone and an area of high wind shear. Typhoon Ewiniar resulted in ₱1.03...
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Sabtu, 2026-03-07 01:38:54Office (BCGNO). Lin Y, Fissel D, Mudge T, Borg K. (2 October 2018). "Baroclinic Effect on Modeling Deep Flow in Brown Passage, BC, Canada". Journal of...
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Senin, 2026-05-04 01:30:36quantified this phenomenon in his 1947 paper, "Wind Driven Currents in a Baroclinic Ocean", in which the (depth-integrated) Sverdrup balance is defined as:...
Click to read more »Frontogenesis
Sabtu, 2025-10-11 01:37:11precipitation occurs. Frontogenesis occurs as a result of a developing baroclinic wave. According to Hoskins & Bretherton (1972, p. 11), there are eight...
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Minggu, 2026-05-31 06:37:45transition on September 7. The storm maintained its intensity, due to baroclinic processes, generating Category 2 hurricane-equivalent winds. Several hours...
Click to read more »Potential vorticity
Rabu, 2026-05-06 01:33:46light on the synoptic scale features for forecasters and researchers. Baroclinic instability requires the presence of a potential vorticity gradient along...
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Kamis, 2025-12-18 05:54:41Norte, Federico; Saulo, A. (2006). "Influence of the Subtropical Andes on Baroclinic Disturbances: A Cold Front Case Study". Monthly Weather Review. 134 (11):...
Click to read more »Eddy (fluid dynamics)
Sabtu, 2025-12-13 13:54:17(see animation)[clarification needed], and transient eddies, caused by baroclinic instability. When the ocean contains a sea surface height gradient, this...
Click to read more »1998 Atlantic hurricane season
Kamis, 2026-05-28 05:46:45upper-level low-pressure system caused the storm to turn northeastward. A baroclinic trough within the westerlies transitioned into a deep low, causing Lisa...
Click to read more »Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone
Kamis, 2026-06-04 21:18:10intensifying atmospheric convection—thunderstorms—and heavy precipitation. The baroclinic properties of the Mediterranean region, with high temperature gradients...
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Selasa, 2026-05-26 16:37:59which made re-intensification unlikely. However, convection redeveloped baroclinically with the approaching cold front, and Kyle attained tropical storm status...
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Minggu, 2026-04-26 07:02:26sustained) being a Category 3 typhoon on the SSHS. Being embedded in the baroclinic zone, Roke started its extratropical transition. Also, land interaction...
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Sabtu, 2026-06-06 22:53:30extratropical remnant of Oho later regained hurricane-force winds due to strong baroclinicity, before moving over Alaska in a weakened state on October 10 and dissipating...
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Selasa, 2025-10-28 06:15:22six businesses were destroyed, while six others were damaged. The interaction of baroclinic features with Agnes resulted in a tropical cyclone with "hybrid" characteristics...
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Sabtu, 2024-10-19 10:49:30low-pressure systems of a subsynoptic scale in space, energized by surface baroclinicity and latent heat release along the STF front. The SST front also anchors...
Click to read more »Hurricane Hazel
Rabu, 2026-05-20 00:02:45a similar storm in 2012 with an unusual and complicated track due to baroclinic interactions Hurricane Matthew – a storm which took a similar track in...
Click to read more »List of Brazil tornadoes
Minggu, 2026-06-07 21:29:43north of Rio Grande do Sul and west-central Santa Catarina. The intense baroclinicity during the winter is responsible for the increase in JBN episodes. In...
Click to read more »1996 Lake Huron cyclone
Rabu, 2026-05-20 00:02:21atmosphere indicated that the surface center was strengthening, due to baroclinic forcing. In addition to this, analyses of the atmosphere concluded that...
Click to read more »2015 Pacific typhoon season
Selasa, 2026-05-19 07:06:00interact with higher vertical wind shear associated by the mid-latitude baroclinic zone late on August 23. On August 24, the JMA downgraded Atsani to a severe...
Click to read more »List of Jamaica hurricanes
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 00:29:34hurricanes typically have tropical origins rather than baroclinic ones; only the 1912 hurricane was of baroclinic nature. All landfalling hurricanes developed south...
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Jumat, 2026-03-27 04:53:34with a lower pressure had formed farther north, near Chesapeake Bay, as baroclinic processes began to restrengthen the former hurricane. The extratropical...
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Kamis, 2026-02-12 03:45:07buoyancy loss is completely offset through lateral buoyancy transfer by baroclinic eddies which are generated at the periphery of the convective regime and...
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Rabu, 2025-12-31 08:15:53its direction does not change with respect to height, and thus the baroclinicity in the atmosphere can be simulated using the 500-and-1,000 mb (15-and-30 inHg)...
Click to read more »Tropical Storm Mindy
Rabu, 2026-03-18 23:32:30weakened inland before entering the Atlantic and being absorbed by a baroclinic system on September 11. While moving across Mexico, the precursor to Mindy...
Click to read more »Tropical Storm Faxai (2007)
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 09:16:18(Faxai) had become extratropical around this time as it merged with a baroclinic zone. A cold front developed along the southern portion of Faxai, a feature...
Click to read more »Rayleigh–Kuo criterion
Sabtu, 2025-12-13 05:36:12function of only the pressure and not the temperature (in contrast to a baroclinic fluid, where the density is a function of both the pressure and temperature)...
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Jumat, 2026-05-15 06:08:31unknown. A subtropical depression formed from an old weather front, or baroclinic zone, on November 6 near Puerto Rico. The depression moved northeastward...
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Rabu, 2026-05-06 18:25:33waves such as cold fronts and upper-level lows. These are known as baroclinically induced tropical cyclones. There is a strong correlation between the...
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Sabtu, 2025-11-22 08:16:16temperature gradient in the air mass. This type of flow is typically found in baroclinic atmospheres with cold air to the west. The image to the right shows such...
Click to read more »2011 Pacific typhoon season
Selasa, 2026-06-02 13:42:51LLCC very distorted and difficult to pin-point. Talas was embedded in a baroclinic zone and the JTWC anticipated an extratropical transition, which prompted...
Click to read more »Walter Munk
Senin, 2026-03-09 02:46:13; Cornuelle, B.D.; Worcester, P.F.; Howe, B.M.; Luther, D.S. (1995). "Baroclinic and barotropic tides in the central North Pacific Ocean determined from...
Click to read more »2022 Atlantic hurricane season
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 12:28:54(170 km) north-northwest of Bermuda. The remnants of Alex were absorbed by a baroclinic zone early on June 7. Due to the threat the developing system posed to...
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Minggu, 2026-05-17 10:26:03shown that there is a large conversion of semidiurnal M2 barotropic to baroclinic internal tides surrounding the Nusa Penida Sill (NPS). The Indonesian...
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Selasa, 2025-07-29 14:14:00forming. Topography can force a surface low to form when an existing baroclinic wave moves over a mountain barrier; this is known as "lee cyclogenesis"...
Click to read more »Equatorial Rossby wave
Senin, 2026-01-26 02:44:52factors of 3, 5, 7, etc. To illustrate, suppose c = 2.8 m/s for the first baroclinic mode in the Pacific; then the Rossby wave speed would correspond to ~0...
Click to read more »Warren White (oceanographer)
Kamis, 2025-08-21 04:11:121029/JC079i030p04517. Bernstein, R.; White, Warren (1974). "Time and length scales of baroclinic eddies in the Central North Pacific". J. Phys. Oceanogr. 4: 613–624. doi:10...
Click to read more »Hurricane Catarina
Jumat, 2026-05-08 07:44:15temperature of a normal tropical cyclone, but sufficient for a storm of baroclinic origin. Catarina remains the only hurricane strength tropical cyclone...
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Jumat, 2025-05-23 13:21:46(i.e., horizontal sea-surface height gradients determine currents) and baroclinic (i.e., horizontal density gradients determine currents) pressure gradients...
Click to read more »Glossary of meteorology
Kamis, 2026-05-28 04:15:55stratified fluid such as the atmosphere. In the context of meteorology, a baroclinic atmosphere is one in which atmospheric density depends on both temperature...
Click to read more »Atlantic multidecadal oscillation
Minggu, 2026-05-03 19:28:33by the AMO index value, but which may lead to increased atmospheric baroclinicity and storminess." In a 2021 study by Michael Mann and others, it was...
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Selasa, 2026-04-14 19:16:591946. His Ph.D. dissertation, titled “The Dynamics of Long Waves in a Baroclinic Westerly Current” comprised the entire October 1947 issue of the Journal...
Click to read more »Tropical Storm Debby (2012)
Rabu, 2026-02-11 12:48:40re-developed a new center of circulation and strengthened slightly due to baroclinic conditions. As it accelerated northward, Debby's remnants became increasingly...
Click to read more »Climate of Mars
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 21:45:40At higher latitudes a series of high and low pressure areas, called baroclinic pressure waves, dominate the weather. Mars is drier and colder than Earth...
Click to read more »Vorticity equation
Kamis, 2025-07-31 02:08:54negative sign is included in the term. The term 1/ρ2∇ρ × ∇p is the baroclinic term. It accounts for the changes in the vorticity due to the intersection...
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Senin, 2026-04-13 01:57:30percent of California's annual precipitation and are often associated with baroclinic Rossby waves. University of California at San Diego's Center for Western...
Click to read more »2023–24 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
Kamis, 2026-05-21 01:47:13final bulletin on Alvaro on 4 January, as the system interacted with the baroclinic zone. Total damages are estimated to be greater than US$1 million. On...
Click to read more »1925 Tri-State tornado outbreak
Selasa, 2026-06-02 10:32:10and led to a sharp contrast in temperature from north to south. Such baroclinic zones are also associated with tornadic storms. Ahead of the surface dry...
Click to read more »Hurricane Katia (2011)
Kamis, 2026-05-07 01:18:14miles (470 km) south-southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland. Increasing baroclinic energy fueled the powerful extratropical low, which skirted the northern...
Click to read more »2018–19 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
Jumat, 2026-05-01 23:05:46Madagascar). Traversing southeast, Eketsang quickly began interacting with the baroclinic zone associated with an upper-level trough. By the following day, the...
Click to read more »Southern Ocean overturning circulation
Senin, 2026-02-23 23:32:52The overturning process of density surfaces is balanced through the baroclinic instability of the thermal wind currents. This instability flattens the...
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Senin, 2025-06-16 17:09:48of Fisheries Catch in Puerto Rico" (PDF). Retrieved 8 October 2024. "Baroclinic Coupling Improves Depth‐Integrated Modeling of Coastal Sea Level Variations...
Click to read more »Tropical cyclogenesis
Selasa, 2026-05-12 13:33:09wind speeds and higher minimum pressure. This process is also known as baroclinic initiation of a tropical cyclone. Trailing upper cyclones and upper troughs...
Click to read more »2021 Atlantic hurricane season
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 12:34:36minimal tropical storm strength. Instead, Elsa re-intensified due to baroclinic forcing while accelerating northeastward. Elsa became an extratropical...
Click to read more »Synoptic scale meteorology
Jumat, 2026-05-29 05:13:11horizontal gradients in temperature and dew point otherwise known as "baroclinic zones". The descriptor "extratropical" refers to the fact that this type...
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Selasa, 2026-02-17 20:04:34tropical, low-pressure system interacting with an eastward-traveling baroclinic trough to the north. While tropical-midlatitude interactions of this nature...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-30 12:41:04damaging a few homes and businesses. Movement over the Gulf Stream and baroclinic processes caused the storm to deepen, with the storm becoming a Category 2...
Click to read more »African easterly jet
Kamis, 2026-04-30 17:37:39Pacific oceans during the warm season. The jet exhibits both barotropic and baroclinic instability, which produces synoptic scale, westward-propagating disturbances...
Click to read more »Parametrization (atmospheric modeling)
Rabu, 2025-12-31 08:17:52enough, a fluid instability known as baroclinic instability can be triggered. Eddies are generated through baroclinic instability, which act to flatten density...
Click to read more »Tropical Depression Auring (2009)
Jumat, 2024-05-31 12:38:54wind shear, it did not develop any further and late on January 5 as the baroclinic zone approached Auring, it was downgraded to an area of low pressure by...
Click to read more »Cyclone Zoe
Minggu, 2026-05-31 23:37:33steering flow, provided by an upper level trough of low pressure and a baroclinic system near New Caledonia. Over the next few days the system weakened...
Click to read more »2018 Atlantic hurricane season
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 12:46:27States, Michael started restrengthening early on October 12 as a result of baroclinic forcing while transitioning into an extratropical cyclone. The extratropical...
Click to read more »1996 Oakfield tornado outbreak
Selasa, 2025-10-07 06:19:56influenced by the presence of a nearby shifting weather boundary, known as a baroclinic zone. This boundary generated strong cyclonic rotation around a surface...
Click to read more »Tropical Storm Carrie (1972)
Rabu, 2025-10-15 20:21:45back into tropical depression status. The storm began to intensify in a baroclinic environment after turning toward the northwest, its winds of 70 miles...
Click to read more »2008 Pacific typhoon season
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 00:43:25extratropical transition. Later that day as the depression raced into the Baroclinic Zone the JTWC issued its final advisory on Tropical storm 16W. On September...
Click to read more »Paleotempestology
Rabu, 2026-02-04 03:31:29temperature gradients between the polar and low-latitude regions increase baroclinic storm activity. Changes in the North Atlantic Oscillation may also play...
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Selasa, 2025-09-09 08:16:11Ocean it is thought that isopycnals are steepened by wind forcing and baroclinic eddies are acting to flatten the isopycnals. The westerly winds ( τ {\displaystyle...
Click to read more »Mars carbon dioxide ice cloud
Sabtu, 2025-05-24 05:42:58Hartogh (April 28, 2013). "Carbon dioxide ice clouds, snowfalls, and baroclinic waves in the northern winter polar atmosphere of Mars" (PDF). Geophysical...
Click to read more »St. Jude storm
Minggu, 2026-05-17 06:22:41air rapidly descending from high in the storm. The storm developed as a baroclinic leaf over England. Over 20 hours between 27 October at 18:00 UTC and 28...
Click to read more »Intermediate General Circulation Model
Sabtu, 2025-02-01 08:42:19Sciences at McGill University. The IGCM is based on the primitive-equations baroclinic model of Hoskins and Simmons, which has been converted to run on workstations...
Click to read more »Hurricane Teddy
Jumat, 2026-06-05 09:59:43September 21, Teddy restrengthened back to Category 2 strength due to baroclinic forcing. It weakened again to Category 1 strength the next day before...
Click to read more »Boundary current
Minggu, 2026-02-08 20:41:07Union, vol. 29, 1948 Sverdrup, Harald (1947). Wind-Driven Currents in a Baroclinic Ocean; with Application to the Equatorial Currents of the Eastern Pacific...
Click to read more »2004 Atlantic hurricane season
Selasa, 2026-06-02 02:34:10hurricane on September 22 as it curved to the northeast in response to a baroclinic trough. After wind shear lessened, Karl briefly became a major hurricane...
Click to read more »2009 Pacific typhoon season
Senin, 2026-05-18 08:51:23wind shear, it did not develop any further and late on January 5 as the baroclinic zone approached Auring, it was downgraded to a low-pressure area by PAGASA...
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Minggu, 2026-03-22 11:15:22only as a constant. Rossby parameter Coriolis effect Coriolis frequency Baroclinic instability Quasi-geostrophic equations Holton, James R.; Hakim, Gregory...
Click to read more »Cyclone Arthur (2007)
Kamis, 2026-05-21 08:55:50at a quick pace, the storm began to turn towards the southeast along a baroclinic zone. Early on January 26, the JTWC issued their final advisory on the...
Click to read more »2012 Pacific typhoon season
Kamis, 2026-05-28 16:11:40issued their final advisory on Mawar, as it was deeply embedded in the baroclinic zone and its low-level circulation center had decoupled behind its convection...
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Minggu, 2025-11-30 17:09:39Rossby waves, barotropic and baroclinic. Barotropic Rossby waves have the highest speeds and do not vary vertically. Baroclinic Rossby waves are much slower...
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Minggu, 2024-04-07 14:10:06Adiabatic lapse rate Atmospheric thermodynamics Baroclinic instability Barotropic vorticity equation Convective instability Coriolis effect Euler equations...
Click to read more »Tornadoes of 2006
Rabu, 2026-06-03 10:44:36associated with low-level instability, a low-level jet stream, and a surface baroclinic boundary produced a F2 tornado near Castellcir in the Catalonia region...
Click to read more »Rotating tank
Senin, 2021-07-12 23:49:45A rotating tank experiment modelling baroclinic eddies in the atmosphere...
Click to read more »2006 Atlantic hurricane season
Jumat, 2026-05-29 00:42:28circulation, and the storm contained some subtropical characteristics with a baroclinic-type cloud pattern. Slow intensification continued, and ISaac attained...
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Selasa, 2026-03-24 03:03:37theorem in 1898. Bjerknes extended the concept to inviscid, geostrophic and baroclinic fluids, resulting in addition of terms in the equation. The exact mathematical...
Click to read more »Sukyoung Lee
Selasa, 2025-11-11 09:55:17earned her Ph.D. in 1991 from Princeton University where she worked on baroclinic waves. As of 2021, she is a professor at Pennsylvania State University...
Click to read more »2011 Atlantic hurricane season
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 10:41:15July 16. Tracking south-southeast, the low-pressure center was initially baroclinic in nature, but quickly transitioned into a warm-core low over the warm...
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Minggu, 2025-08-31 04:07:51confined region, where it produces heavy rainfall. They are volatile, baroclinic systems that meander to the west with strong convergence and an ascending...
Click to read more »2007 Pacific typhoon season
Kamis, 2026-04-30 17:42:08its extra tropical transition on November 27 as it interacted with the Baroclinic zone, the JTWC then issued its final warning on 25W. This was because...
Click to read more »Tropical Storm Allison
Jumat, 2026-06-05 17:51:01remnants of Allison briefly reintensified to a subtropical storm through baroclinic processes, though it became extratropical while south of Long Island....
Click to read more »January 5–6, 2025 United States blizzard
Senin, 2026-05-18 08:14:58Mid‑Atlantic by January 6. By January 4–5, surface analyses depicted a classic baroclinic zone: a well-defined warm front north across the Midwest and a pronounced...
Click to read more »Joseph Pedlosky
Senin, 2026-01-05 09:06:17Technology. Pedlosky has made fundamental contributions in the study of baroclinic instability and the thermal structure of the ocean, particularly the oceanic...
Click to read more »Timeline of the 2024 Pacific typhoon season
Rabu, 2026-06-03 13:39:52central pressure of 998 hPa (998.0 mbar; 29.47 inHg) as interacted with the baroclinic zones. At 19°48′N 112°36′E / 19.8°N 112.6°E / 19.8; 112.6 – The JMA...
Click to read more »2007 Atlantic hurricane season
Jumat, 2026-03-06 13:09:11along a cold front that pushed through Florida. After losing most of its baroclinic support, development ceased until its low moved into warmer waters near...
Click to read more »Peter B. Rhines
Senin, 2025-10-20 23:54:17contribute to climate regulation. He has also studied eddy dynamics, baroclinic instability, and the impact of topographic features on ocean flow. His...
Click to read more »Kelvin wave
Jumat, 2025-08-15 00:30:33{\displaystyle {\sqrt {gH}},} is about 200 metres per second, but for the first baroclinic mode in the ocean, a typical phase speed would be about 2.8 m/s, causing...
Click to read more »2001 Pacific typhoon season
Jumat, 2026-05-15 21:53:58JTWC issued their final warning on Krosa, as the storm moved into the baroclinic zone and became extratropical. Tropical Depression 25W formed over the...
Click to read more »Richard Lindzen
Minggu, 2026-04-19 15:07:47mesospheric dynamics. Part IV. Stability of a zonal vortex at midlatitudes to baroclinic waves" (PDF). J. Atmos. Sci. 23 (3): 350–59. Bibcode:1966JAtS...23..350L...
Click to read more »John Sawyer (meteorologist)
Selasa, 2024-10-29 10:27:15this country and abroad. With F.H. Bushby he devised the well-known 'baroclinic' model for numerical forecasting, using electronic computation, which...
Click to read more »Typhoon Ewiniar (2024)
Kamis, 2026-05-21 10:06:55ceased issuing advisories on the system the next day as it entered the baroclinic zone and an area of high wind shear. The extratropical remnants of Ewiniar...
Click to read more »Sverdrup balance
Senin, 2025-02-24 23:52:13circulation Sverdrup, H.U. (November 1947). "Wind-Driven Currents in a Baroclinic Ocean; with Application to the Equatorial Currents of the Eastern Pacific"...
Click to read more »Tropical Storm Pulasan
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 11:29:11advisories on the system as it underwent frontogenesis while entering the baroclinic zone. The extratropical storm entered the Sea of Japan on September 22...
Click to read more »Glossary of tropical cyclone terms
Senin, 2026-05-04 03:55:58primary energy source from the release of latent heat of condensation to baroclinic (the temperature contrast between warm and cold air masses) processes...
Click to read more »Irminger Rings
Senin, 2026-03-09 05:12:26rings. It is unclear whether these instabilities are mainly barotropic or baroclinic, with contradicting outcomes between models. Barotropic instabilities...
Click to read more »List of Atlantic tropical storms
Senin, 2026-05-25 03:37:36waves such as cold fronts and upper-level lows. These are known as baroclinically induced tropical cyclones. Sea surface temperature is more constant...
Click to read more »Rossby whistle
Minggu, 2025-12-21 19:59:14influenced by propagating westward oceanic Rossby wave. It is observed that a baroclinic Rossby wave propagating westward across the Caribbean Sea, oscillating...
Click to read more »Jørgen Holmboe
Sabtu, 2025-10-11 17:14:58of stratified shear flow (Universitetsforlaget. 1966) Instability of baroclinic three-layer models of the atmosphere (Universitetsforlaget. 1968) "Holmboe...
Click to read more »Lynne Talley
Kamis, 2026-03-05 22:06:112021-05-21. Talley, Lynne E. (1982). Instabilities and radiation of thin, baroclinic jets (Thesis thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721...
Click to read more »Peter Baines (academic)
Kamis, 2026-05-28 18:53:07the two research areas together. This has included a study of internal (baroclinic) ocean tides, generated by tidal flow over topography such as submarine...
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Minggu, 2026-04-12 09:46:33modern view suggests that they form directly during the wrap-up of the baroclinic zone during cyclogenesis, and lengthen due to flow deformation and rotation...
Click to read more »1967 Chicago blizzard
Kamis, 2026-05-21 04:06:31mercury had dropped to 31 degrees F. On the other hand, an upper-level baroclinic trough, coming from the Rockies, developed a low pressure system at the...
Click to read more »2000 Atlantic hurricane season
Kamis, 2026-05-28 03:57:00However, another brief period of rapid intensification occurred due to baroclinic effects, and Michael peaked as a minimal Category 2 hurricane. Shortly...
Click to read more »Airy wave theory
Kamis, 2025-10-23 05:17:50amplitude is large compared with the amplitude of the interfacial wave, and a baroclinic mode where the opposite is the case – the interfacial wave is higher than...
Click to read more »Tropical Storm Claudette (2021)
Selasa, 2026-01-06 08:39:24before moving through Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. Baroclinic forcing then caused Claudette to reintensify into a tropical storm over...
Click to read more »Hurricane Arlene (1987)
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 07:37:31Continuing rapidly northward, the hurricane began to interact with a baroclinic zone over the cold waters of the north Atlantic. This resulted in the...
Click to read more »1994 Atlantic hurricane season
Kamis, 2026-05-28 06:55:05northeastward ahead of an approaching cold front and merged with an extratropical baroclinic zone roughly 145 mi (235 km) southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland. A tropical...
Click to read more »John S. A. Green
Kamis, 2026-03-05 09:40:36graduating B.Sc. in 1955. He was awarded a PhD in 1961 for his research into baroclinic instability. After receiving his Ph.D, he was appointed as Lecturer in...
Click to read more »Abrupt climate change
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 01:31:42combined with a cooler North Atlantic Ocean from AMOC slowdown and an increase in midlatitude eddy energy, we can anticipate more severe baroclinic storms....
Click to read more »2016 Pacific typhoon season
Kamis, 2026-06-04 13:37:55result of a strong wind shear and the interaction of the mid-latitude baroclinic zone. The JMA tracked Conson until it fully transitioned into an extratropical...
Click to read more »Tropical Storm Alex (2022)
Jumat, 2026-03-27 21:58:43north-northwest of Bermuda. Then, 12 hours later, the cyclone was absorbed within a baroclinic zone. A few hours later however, a new area of low pressure formed in...
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Kamis, 2026-01-22 19:05:02Store (CDS). Sverdrup, Harald Ulrich (1947). "Wind-driven currents in a baroclinic ocean; with application to the equatorial currents of the eastern Pacific"...
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Minggu, 2026-02-22 22:28:21Arbic & R. W. Hallberg (2004). "Internal wave generation in a global baroclinic tide model". Deep-Sea Research Part II. 51 (25–26): 3043–3068. Bibcode:2004DSRII...
Click to read more »1993 Atlantic hurricane season
Minggu, 2026-05-17 01:33:33noted that interaction with the approaching cold front could result in baroclinic strengthening. The depression did not organize further and merged with...
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Jumat, 2026-01-16 01:52:05final bulletin on Alvaro on 4 January, as the system interacted with the baroclinic zone. Steadily weakening, the remnants of Alvaro dissipated on 6 January...
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Sabtu, 2025-08-09 21:37:30similar to a jet. The momentum balance is dominated by barotropic and baroclinic pressure gradients, turbulent shear stresses, and flow acceleration. Flow...
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Selasa, 2025-09-02 11:37:34Norte, Federico; Saulo, A. (2006). "Influence of the Subtropical Andes on Baroclinic Disturbances: A Cold Front Case Study". Monthly Weather Review. 134 (11):...
Click to read more »Typhoon Yuri
Selasa, 2025-07-29 03:27:17remnants restrengthened to a powerful hurricane-force cyclone due to baroclinic processes. Continuing to track northward, they were last noted on December 3...
Click to read more »North Brazil Current Retroflection
Kamis, 2026-03-19 04:15:11is the strongest. The rings show early signs of formation because the baroclinic instability grows in the region and a wavelike perturbation can be seen...
Click to read more »2019 Beauregard tornado
Senin, 2026-04-06 07:48:23was located over the far western Carolinas. An inland stationary front, baroclinic zone and an associated warm front extending southwestward across north-central...
Click to read more »1978 Atlantic hurricane season
Senin, 2026-03-09 00:49:31westerlies, it was initially non-tropical in nature and intensified through a baroclinic energy source, or one that derives energy from the interaction of cold...
Click to read more »Hurricane Danny (1997)
Senin, 2025-08-25 13:46:47occurred due to interaction with a developing trough and its associated baroclinic zone. Danny entered the Atlantic Ocean, north of the North Carolina-Virginia...
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Senin, 2025-10-13 04:26:16its tropical identity by 12:00 UTC on August 29, just north of 44°N. Baroclinic processes preserved much of the extratropical cyclone's intensity, allowing...
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Jumat, 2025-11-07 07:06:24its direction does not change with respect to height, and thus the baroclinicity in the atmosphere can be simulated using the 500 mb (15 inHg) and 1...
Click to read more »List of Bermuda hurricanes
Jumat, 2026-05-22 07:34:17creating two distinct 'seasons'. Hurricanes late in the year often receive baroclinic enhancement while undergoing extratropical transition. Bermuda is less...
Click to read more »1932 Atlantic hurricane season
Sabtu, 2025-12-20 06:48:23before reaching a secondary peak intensity of 60 mph (97 km/h). However, baroclinic forces caused the storm to become extratropical prior to striking Louisiana...
Click to read more »Typhoon Jelawat (2018)
Senin, 2026-05-25 10:33:43north of Pagan on April 1, the ragged circulation interacted with the baroclinic zone and began possessing frontal characteristics. As such, the JTWC assessed...
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Rabu, 2025-09-17 09:25:22Lighthill : the source of the Somali current is mass flux deposited by baroclinic and barotropic waves in the western boundary region. 1970 Düing : presented...
Click to read more »Hurricane Paulette
Kamis, 2025-10-02 00:50:11over the cool waters of the Northern Atlantic, as it interacted with the baroclinic zone. Paulette continued to produce hurricane-force winds as a powerful...
Click to read more »Hurricane Ophelia (2005)
Rabu, 2026-05-20 00:02:17it became embedded within the mid-latitude westerlies. An approaching baroclinic wave over the Great Lakes also induced a northward component to Ophelia's...
Click to read more »Typhoon Faxai
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 09:17:06accelerated at 31 km/h (20 mph) by September 10, it embedded with the baroclinic zone, commencing the transition into an extratropical cyclone. In 18:00...
Click to read more »André Robert
Selasa, 2025-12-23 00:19:36Turnbull, Colin (May 1972). "An Implicit Time Integration Scheme for Baroclinic Models of the Atmosphere". Monthly Weather Review. 100 (5): 329–335. Bibcode:1972MWRv...
Click to read more »Cyclone Gene
Sabtu, 2026-02-28 11:38:58extratropical transition, and had also become fully embedded within the baroclinic zone. TCWC Wellington continued to monitor the extratropical remnants...
Click to read more »2021 Pacific typhoon season
Kamis, 2026-05-21 13:08:00Nepartak was guided north-northeastwards by an upper-level low and a trough. Baroclinic interaction with the latter also led to the development of a large and...
Click to read more »Eddy pumping
Sabtu, 2025-12-13 13:50:35geostrophic shear and potential energy provide an energy source from which baroclinic and symmetric instabilities can grow. Below the mixed layer, a region...
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Jumat, 2022-01-07 15:55:35parameter fields. Arctic Cold Fronts can be classified into two types: Baroclinic fronts These fronts resemble polar cold fronts, but are usually not so...
Click to read more »Isidoro Orlanski
Minggu, 2026-06-07 17:44:20"Ageostrophic Geopotential Fluxes in Downstream and Upstream Development of Baroclinic Waves". Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 50 (2): 212–225. Bibcode:1993JAtS...
Click to read more »Tropical Storm Talas (2011)
Rabu, 2026-06-03 21:12:30LLCC very distorted and difficult to pin-point. Talas was embedded in a baroclinic zone and the JTWC anticipated an extratropical transition, which prompted...
Click to read more »Late December 1999 European storms
Senin, 2026-05-18 06:30:13developing in its wake. These storms shared two common characteristics: a long baroclinic zone between North America and Europe serving as a highway for their trajectory;...
Click to read more »2012–13 North American winter
Kamis, 2026-06-04 03:54:21on the same day, as a subtropical jet shortwave engaged with a coastal baroclinic zone that was associated with cold air centered east of the Appalachian...
Click to read more »January 31 – February 3, 2021 nor'easter
Minggu, 2026-05-17 07:01:46the East Coast of the United States, as it moved northeastward, with baroclinic forcing increasing, producing intense snowbands occurring as a result...
Click to read more »1968 Pacific hurricane season
Jumat, 2026-05-29 18:45:59possibility that Orla was maintaining stability due to low-pressure baroclinical processes, an unusual characteristic due to the fact that such conditions...
Click to read more »Kuma River (Japan)
Minggu, 2026-04-26 00:32:39(2017). Impacts of the Sea Dike and Reclamation Project in Isahaya Bay on Baroclinic Structure in the Ariake Sea, Japan. Kiguchi, Y. (2013). The Past, Present...
Click to read more »2010–11 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
Senin, 2026-01-19 09:07:55Madagascar, which recorded a drop in atmospheric pressure. Located in a baroclinic environment, the system was located beneath an upper-level low, resulting...
Click to read more »Roman Glazman
Jumat, 2025-04-04 10:03:50Scale Transport". "Fluctuations of SST and CHL-A Concentration Caused by Baroclinic Inertia-Gravity Waves" (PDF). Glazman, R. E.; Patzert, W. C. (21 October...
Click to read more »Meteorological history of Hurricane Harvey
Kamis, 2026-01-22 08:29:17stationary front located over the Southern United States resulted in baroclinic enhancement of heavy rains in that region. Warm moist air wrapping round...
Click to read more »Hurricane Igor
Rabu, 2026-05-20 00:02:06a trough over the Canadian Maritimes, the storm intensified within a baroclinic zone as it neared Newfoundland. The interaction between these two systems...
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Senin, 2026-02-16 00:06:28convective activity, high wind shear, and low sea surface temperatures, due to baroclinic forces, the MFR upgraded the system to a moderate tropical storm once...
Click to read more »1980 Pacific typhoon season
Senin, 2026-06-08 00:25:46in Thelma's upper-level outflow alongside the storm tracking into the baroclinic zone, Thelma soon began transitioning into an extratropical low. As a...
Click to read more »1972 Atlantic hurricane season
Senin, 2026-01-19 07:17:27June 21, Agnes re-strengthened into a tropical storm, as a result of baroclinic activity. Early the following day, the storm emerged into the Atlantic...
Click to read more »Tropical Storm Etau (2009)
Minggu, 2026-04-26 07:28:09Etau also became slightly disorganized as it began to interact with the baroclinic zone near Japan. Early on August 11, the JMA reported that the storm winds...
Click to read more »Hurricane Emily (1987)
Rabu, 2026-03-18 03:44:48forward motion ever recorded in a tropical cyclone. Interacting with a baroclinic zone, the hurricane completed its transition at 1800 UTC on September 26...
Click to read more »Patrick Huerre
Selasa, 2025-10-07 17:21:45properties of plumes. He now turns to the asymptotic analysis of critical baroclinic layers and their role in the generation of "zombie" eddies in proto-planetary...
Click to read more »Hurricane Klaus (1990)
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 03:28:44water temperatures of 83.1 °F (28.4 °C). As it tracked through a highly baroclinic environment, Klaus became more organized and intensified into a hurricane...
Click to read more »Typhoon Bolaven (2012)
Rabu, 2026-05-20 18:24:41moving towards the northeast, the storm became fully embedded within a baroclinic zone near the China–North Korea border later that day. The JMA continued...
Click to read more »Typhoon Pongsona
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 08:56:38to the west, the eye of Pongsona gradually became better organized. A baroclinic cyclone east of Japan weakened the ridge, which caused the typhoon to...
Click to read more »Hurricane Karen (2001)
Rabu, 2026-05-20 00:02:20and strong diffluence—the rate at which a fluid moves—the area became baroclinically unstable. This caused the interaction between the trough and the front...
Click to read more »Brown Passage
Selasa, 2026-01-06 16:04:03Office (BCGNO). Lin, Y.; Fissel, D. B.; Mudge, T.; Borg, K. (2018). "Baroclinic Effect on Modeling Deep Flow in Brown Passage, BC, Canada". Journal of...
Click to read more »Hurricane Edith (1971)
Rabu, 2026-05-13 18:54:36troposphere from an upper-level low to an anticyclone led to a release of baroclinic energy. Reconnaissance aircraft crews in the peak of the storm reported...
Click to read more »1986–87 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
Rabu, 2025-11-12 15:29:34southeast on the next day and maintained much of its intensity due to baroclinic interactions with a nearby anticyclone. On March 13, Daodo turned back...
Click to read more »Typhoon Conson (2004)
Minggu, 2026-04-26 07:47:14motion on the typhoon also began to increase as it interacted with a baroclinic zone. Shortly after, the JMA assessed the storm to have reached its peak...
Click to read more »1975 Atlantic hurricane season
Rabu, 2026-05-20 00:02:32cyclone intensified into Tropical Storm Blanche. A weakening cold front and baroclinic forces created an environment favorable for intensifying, allowing Blanche...
Click to read more »1944 Cuba–Florida hurricane
Minggu, 2026-04-05 19:21:15inland over South Carolina. As it did so, the storm began to become more baroclinic, transitioning into a fully extratropical cyclone over South Carolina...
Click to read more »Hurricane Epsilon (2020)
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 23:17:52origins, developing from an upper-level trough associated with a weak baroclinic low that emerged off the East Coast of the United States on October 13...
Click to read more »Joseph Smagorinsky
Minggu, 2026-03-01 04:57:33On the numerical integration of the primitive equations of motion for baroclinic flow in a closed region. Monthly Weather Review, 86(12), 457–466. Eliassen...
Click to read more »2002–03 South Pacific cyclone season
Kamis, 2026-04-09 12:32:38a transition into an extratropical cyclone, after interacting with a baroclinic zone to the southwest. Yolande's extratropical remnants continued to track...
Click to read more »Hurricane Leslie (2018)
Selasa, 2026-04-07 22:31:44extratropical cyclone around 12:00 UTC, after its circulation expanded along a baroclinic zone. At that time, an expansive stratocumulus cloud shield was becoming...
Click to read more »Peter Schlosser
Minggu, 2026-03-08 07:29:05Peter; Kuntz, Reinhard; Siedler, Gerold; Stramma, Lothar (1986-05-01). "Baroclinic Flow and Transient-Tracer Fields in the Canary–Cape Verde Basin". Journal...
Click to read more »1915 Atlantic hurricane season
Minggu, 2026-05-17 18:47:24reintensification occurred as it approached the Mid-Atlantic states, perhaps aided by baroclinic influences. Late on August 4, the system became extratropical upon merging...
Click to read more »Timeline of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
Kamis, 2026-02-12 07:59:38105 mi (165 km) north-northwest of Bermuda, and is later absorbed within a baroclinic zone. July 1 06:00 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) at 11°36′N 78°30′W / 11.6°N 78...
Click to read more »Hurricane Charley (1986)
Senin, 2026-02-23 02:41:24Atlantic Canada. After becoming extratropical, Charley re-intensified under baroclinic instability. The resulting storm was a very large and fairly strong gale...
Click to read more »Hurricane Michael (2000)
Rabu, 2026-05-20 00:02:20The sudden intensification was determined to have been as a result of baroclinic effects as it interacted with an incoming trough, which provided additional...
Click to read more »Hurricane Earl (1998)
Minggu, 2025-01-12 10:55:58Ocean, the remnants of Earl began re-intensify due to the effects of a baroclinic zone. Relatively cool sea surface temperatures near Atlantic Canada prevented...
Click to read more »Polar low
Senin, 2025-03-17 21:28:30A number of lows develop on horizontal temperature gradients through baroclinic instability, and these can have the appearance of small frontal depressions...
Click to read more »Hurricane Irene (1999)
Jumat, 2026-05-15 17:27:07upper-level jet streak, and warm air advected from the storm resulted in a baroclinic effect, allowing Irene to maintain much of its convection during and following...
Click to read more »Hurricane Fay
Senin, 2025-08-18 12:01:04Fay started transitioning into an extratropical cyclone as it entered a baroclinic environment and ingested colder, drier air. The circulation rapidly deteriorated;...
Click to read more »Hurricane Beryl (2018)
Jumat, 2025-08-08 19:10:03circulation became well-defined early on July 14, and due to influence from a baroclinic trough, thunderstorms developed and persisted near the storm's center...
Click to read more »Central American gyre
Selasa, 2025-03-25 21:33:16precipitation around the center of the gyre. Less frequently, a CAG may exhibit a baroclinic structure and occur in tandem with a trough in the upper-troposphere....
Click to read more »2019–20 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
Minggu, 2026-02-08 09:14:56throughout the day, and a combination of wind shear and interaction with a baroclinic zone caused Diane to begin losing tropical characteristics. Much of Diane's...
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Kamis, 2026-05-28 05:19:10on January 18 as the center tracked across Ha'apai. Interaction with a baroclinic zone the next day signaled the onset of extratropical transition; Tino...
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Senin, 2026-04-20 15:14:58kinetic energy (EKE). It also seems that they require a mixed barotropic–baroclinic instability-driven cyclogenesis to generate. A jet located near the surface...
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Rabu, 2026-05-06 07:39:11subtropical depression, before degenerating further into a deep mid-latitude baroclinic low-pressure system during March 18, as it affected New Zealand's North...
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Minggu, 2026-04-05 04:48:36(56 km/h). At the same time, the storm was located along the edge of a baroclinic zone, which limited strengthening. Curving northeastward due to an approaching...
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Minggu, 2026-05-17 22:42:47January 1 to the north of the Southern Cook Islands, while showing some baroclinic characteristics, before developing a fair amount of convection around...
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Kamis, 2026-01-29 08:51:24Sebastien began to re-intensify as it was now situated in a favourable baroclinic environment. Shortly before landfall on the south coast of Ireland on...
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Senin, 2026-05-18 21:10:41variational assimilation of meteorological observations in the presence of baroclinic instabilities. From 1992 to 1998, Rabier worked at the European Centre...
Click to read more »Mars general circulation model
Rabu, 2026-04-08 02:22:58atmospheric condensation of carbon dioxide and the presence of transient baroclinic waves in the winter mod-latitudes. After this NASA Ames Research Center...
Click to read more »Tropical Storm Isidore (1984)
Rabu, 2025-11-26 14:39:02of many storms during the 1984 season that formed in relatively cool baroclinic environments. Officials issued gale warnings in the Bahamas for the central...
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Minggu, 2023-04-16 08:57:25from east to west. Their scales were close to those of the planetary baroclinic Rossby waves..." POLYGON was followed by the MODE experiment (Mid Ocean...
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Senin, 2025-09-29 13:06:47”Deep-Sea Research” 20, 1973, p. 997–1009. William J. Emery, Lorenz Magaard: ”Baroclinic Rossby waves as inferred from temperature fluctuations in the Eastern...
Click to read more »Cyclone Batsirai
Kamis, 2026-04-23 01:26:57convective activity, high wind shear, and low sea surface temperatures, due to baroclinic forces, the MFR upgraded the system to a moderate tropical storm once...
Click to read more »Tropical Storm Nanmadol (2017)
Senin, 2026-05-25 08:04:38on Nanmadol, mentioning that the system was embedded within the cold baroclinic zone, and had thus lost its tropical characteristics and transitioned...
Click to read more »Typhoon Jelawat (2012)
Rabu, 2026-05-20 07:51:14rapidly decaying. Since September 30, Jelawat was fully embedded in the baroclinic zone and began extratropical transition, as the convective banding was...
Click to read more »Meteorological history of Hurricane Sandy
Senin, 2025-10-13 10:22:42continued to drop, which indicated the system was intensifying because of baroclinic instability. In an advisory issued by the NHC late on October 29, the...
Click to read more »Tropical Storm Lupit (2021)
Kamis, 2026-05-21 13:06:51system started to undergo extratropical transition while entering the baroclinic zone. The Hong Kong Observatory and Macao Meteorological and Geophysical...
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Kamis, 2026-05-21 08:55:59400 mi (645 km) south-southeast of Pago Pago. Rapidly moving, Cilla showed baroclinic characteristics, hinting that the system was a hybrid low, sustaining...
Click to read more »Potential Tropical Cyclone Ten
Senin, 2025-08-18 07:50:20wind shear. Around that time, the disturbance began interacting with a baroclinic zone, causing the disturbance to begin transitioning into an extratropical...
Click to read more »Haida Eddies
Sabtu, 2026-01-24 01:54:36documented to occur from baroclinic instabilities from alongshore wind reversals, equatorial Kelvin waves, and bottom topography. Baroclinic instabilities form...
Click to read more »Charles L. Dolph
Kamis, 2026-05-28 22:12:04Dolph, C. L. (1970). "Three-dimensional non-geostrophic disturbances in a baroclinic zonal flow". Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. 1 (1–2): 91–122. Bibcode:1970GeoFD...
Click to read more »Alberto dos Santos Franco
Rabu, 2026-04-08 23:13:27is now generated by the transformation of the tide in ocean barotropic baroclinic tides in the shallow regions of offshore. (Ministry of the Navy – 1937...
Click to read more »Sverdrup Gold Medal
Senin, 2025-09-22 11:10:13for developing geophysical fluid dynamics, including the theories of baroclinic instability and of ocean circulation driven by wind and buoyancy flux...
Click to read more »Lake Tengger
Senin, 2026-02-16 18:29:07increased meridional temperature gradients which resulted in stronger baroclinic storms. Later, it is possible that a weakening of the East Asian Monsoon...
Click to read more »Cyclone Tino
Kamis, 2026-05-21 08:56:46circulation center from the south. The system also started to interact with a baroclinic zone and transition into an extratropical cyclone. Tino moved out of the...
Click to read more »Timeline of the 2013 Pacific typhoon season
Jumat, 2026-03-27 00:39:32issues its final advisory on Typhoon Lekima, as it rapidly merged with a baroclinic zone and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone. 1200 UTC — The JMA...
Click to read more »Roger Daley
Jumat, 2025-04-18 06:39:17involved in implementation of non-linear normal mode initialization for baroclinic models at the Canadian Meteorological Centre in Canada and at Météo-France...
Click to read more »Tropical Storm Gilda (1973)
Sabtu, 2026-02-28 01:48:37United States. Cold air from the trough interacted with Gilda, providing a baroclinic environment for intensifying, and on October 24 the storm transitioned...
Click to read more »Timeline of the 2010 Pacific typhoon season
Kamis, 2026-01-15 23:52:23final advisory on Typhoon Malakas, (13W), as it rapidly merges with a baroclinic zone. 1800 UTC, (0200 UTC+8, September 26) – The JMA reports that Typhoon...
Click to read more »1862 Atlantic hurricane season
Rabu, 2026-03-18 03:59:57and strong high pressure building in, which is more consistent with a baroclinic system". A Category 2 hurricane on the modern-day Saffir-Simpson hurricane...
Click to read more »Mavis Hinds
Senin, 2025-02-03 00:04:16Meteorological Society, Fred Bushby and Hinds presented the first computer-based baroclinic forecast in Europe. Since 1951, they had been making use of the computing...
Click to read more »David McNiven Garner
Minggu, 2026-01-18 21:59:24Bowman, Malcolm J. (1985). "On the Beta-Induced Coastal Trapping of a Baroclinic Eddy". Journal of Physical Oceanography. 15 (6): 817. Bibcode:1985JPO...
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