Zonal flow on Jupiter and Saturn consists of equatorial super-rotation alternating East–West jet streams at higher latitudes . Interacting with these zonal flows, numerous vortices occur various sizes lifetimes. The Juno mission Cassini’s grand finale have shown that the jets extend deeply into their molecular envelopes. On Jupiter, vast majority low mid-latitude jovian are anticyclonic, wherea...

Tropical cyclones are relatively rare weather events, yet they consistently rank among the world’s deadliest and costliest natural hazards. In the United States, tropical cyclones account for nearly $10 billion annually in economic damages (1), and damages from Hurricane Sandy (2012) are estimated to be over $50 billion. Understanding the role of these events within Earth’s climate system is of...

1D3D and 2D2D cyclones were tested at Amarillo, Texas, to evaluate the effect of air density on cyclone performance. Both airflow rate and cyclone inlet velocity change with the change in air density. Two sets of inlet design velocities determined by the different air densities were used for the tests: one set based on the actual airflow, and the other set based on standard airflow. Experimenta...

Explosive cyclones (ECs) pose serious challenges for weather forecasting and significant threats to human life property. In searching the key points that make a cyclone go through explosive deepening off East Asian coast, we present comparative analysis of ECs nonexplosive (or ordinary cyclones; OCs) using 10 years ERA5 reanalysis data with high temporal spatial resolutions. Their differences i...

Abstract. Surface cyclones that feed the western part of North Pacific storm track and experience a midwinter suppression originate from three regions: East China Sea (?30? N), Kuroshio extension (?35? downstream Kamchatka (?53? N). In midwinter, in terms cyclone numbers, (45 %) (40 dominate region where eddy kinetic energy is suppressed, while relevance increases winter (15 to spring (20 %). T...

The flood hazard in New York City depends on both storm surges and rising sea levels. We combine modeled storm surges with probabilistic sea-level rise projections to assess future coastal inundation in New York City from the preindustrial era through 2300 CE. The storm surges are derived from large sets of synthetic tropical cyclones, downscaled from RCP8.5 simulations from three CMIP5 models....

Heavy rainfall events along Australia’s eastern seaboard are often associated with the occurrence of extratropical cyclones known as East Coast Lows. Such rainfall events contribute significantly to runoff and water availability, with consequences that can be beneficial (increased water storage), but also can cause major adverse effects due to both flash floods and widespread inundation. Any tr...

[1] Using cloud observations from NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer, and CloudSat-CALIPSO, composites of cloud fraction in southern and northern hemisphere extratropical cyclones are obtained for cold and warm seasons between 2006 and 2010, to assess differences between these three data sets, and between summer and winter cyclones. In both ...