the areas of the world that have mediterranean style climate are found at about 35 degrees north and south of the equator, on the western sides of continents. the distinctive feature of this climate is the small amount of rain in the summer. overall, the climate has a moderate amount of rainfall and warm winters and hot summers and. the climate of the mediterranean region is conditioned by its ...

The modern Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is part of the world’s largest and best known mixed terrigenous-carbonate continental margin. The GBR shelf contains three shore-parallel sedimentary belts: an inner shelf zone of terrigenous sedimentation at depths of 0–22m; a middle shelf zone of sediment starvation at depths of 22–40m; and an outer shelf reef tract with its inner edge at ca. 40m depth. The...

This paper describes results from a near-real-time objective technique for estimating the intensity of tropical cyclones from satellite infrared imagery in the North Atlantic Ocean basin. The technique quantifies the level of organization or axisymmetry of the infrared cloud signature of a tropical cyclone as an indirect measurement of its maximum wind speed. The final maximum wind speed calcul...

Impact of three different cyclones on the Bay of Bengal water and its surface chlorophyll concentration has been studied in three different zones during October-December 2000 using 24 scenes of IRS-P4 Ocean Color Monitor (OCM). The chlorophyll concentration found to be increasing up to 5.0 mg/m with effect of cyclones and hurricanes. The data has been correlated with Sea Surface Temperature (SS...

In contrast to the Loop Current and rings, much less is known about deep eddies (deeper than 1000 m) of the Gulf of Mexico. In this paper, results from a high-resolution numerical model of the Gulf are analyzed to explain their origin and how they excite topographic Rossby waves (TRWs) that disperse energy to the northern slopes of the Gulf. It is shown that north of Campeche Bank is a fertile ...

In final form 31 October 2006 ©2007 American Meteorological Society ropical cyclones (TCs) are among the most destructive of natural disasters. The statistics of TC occurrence and intensity are influenced by variations in the large-scale climate, but many aspects of this influence are poorly understood. Even less is known about the influence of tropical cyclones on the large-scale climate. Thes...

Recent tropical seasons in the Atlantic basin have been quite active. This has translated to an increased frequency of land falling tropical cyclones in the United States. In several instances, a concentrated area of heavy rainfall was observed well upstream from the land falling tropical system itself; separate from the cyclone’s primary precipitation shield. In some of the more pronounced cas...

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