Subregion-Scale Hindcasting of Contrail Outbreaks, Utilizing Their Synoptic Climatology

Synoptic Climatology: An Overview

Synoptic climatology and the analysis of atmospheric teleconnections

Over recent decades, analyses of the structure and impact of atmospheric teleconnections have substantially increased our understanding of the climate system and the role of climate variability. Moving beyond simple correlations between teleconnection indices and temperature and precipitation anomalies, synoptic climatology has been able to provide insight on the spatiotemporal manifestation of...

Evaluation of WRF Forecasts of Tornadic and Nontornadic Outbreaks When Initialized with Synoptic-Scale Input

Uncertainty exists concerning the links between synoptic-scale processes and tornado outbreaks. With continuously improving computer technology, a large number of high-resolution model simulations can be conducted to study these outbreaks to the storm scale, to determine the degree to which synoptic-scale processes appear to influence the occurrence of tornado outbreaks, and to determine how fa...

Climatology of cold outbreaks with snow over Tasmania

Tasmania is an island of area 63 300 square kilometres, with a central plateau containing peaks to about 1500 metres above sea level (Fig. 1). Oceans that are meteorologically data-sparse border it to the west and south, and these are the directions from which all cold fronts come. To the west the closest meteorological station is at Kerguelen Island, 5700 kilometres away, and to the south the ...

Synoptic climatology of the long-distance dispersal of white pine blister rust. I. Development of an upper level synoptic classification.

This study developed a methodology to temporally classify large scale, upper level atmospheric conditions over North America, utilizing a newly-developed upper level synoptic classification (ULSC). Four meteorological variables: geopotential height, specific humidity, and u- and v-wind components, at the 500 hPa level over North America were obtained from the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Project datase...