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Detection and thermal description of medicanes from numerical simulation
Title: Detection and thermal description of medicanes from numerical simulation
Authors: Picornell, María Ángeles ORCID RESEARCHERID Autor AEMETCampins, Joan ORCID RESEARCHERID Autor AEMETJansà Clar, AgustíAutor AEMET
Keywords: Medicanes; Predicción numérica; Numerical weather prediction
Issue Date: 2014
Publisher: European Geosciences Union
Citation: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 2014, 14(5), p. 1059-1070
Publisher version: https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-1059-2014
Abstract: Tropical-like cyclones rarely affect the Mediterranean region but they can produce strong winds and heavy precipitations. These warm-core cyclones, called MEDICANES (MEDIterranean hurriCANES), are small in size, develop over the sea and are infrequent. For these reasons, the detection and forecast of medicanes are a difficult task and many efforts have been devoted to identify them. The goals of this work are to contribute to a proper description of these structures and to develop some criteria to identify medicanes from numerical weather prediction (NWP) model outputs. To do that, existing methodologies for detecting, characterizating and tracking cyclones have been adapted to small-scale intense cyclonic perturbations. First, a mesocyclone detection and tracking algorithm has been modified to select intense cyclones. Next, the parameters that define the Hart's cyclone phase diagram are tuned and calculated to examine their thermal structure.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11765/1301
ISSN: 1561-8633
1684-9981
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