The neighbor enclosed area tracking algorithm for extratropical wintertime cyclones

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 267-272

  Inatsu, Masaru ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Connected component labeling; Cyclone merger; Storm tracking

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONE; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; STORM TRACK; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 77949334365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.238     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Adachi S, Kimura F. 2007. A 36-year climatology of surface cyclogenesis in East Asia under high-resolution reanalysis data. SOLA 3: 113-116.
2. Bengtsson L, Hodges KI, Keelyside N. 2009. Will extra-tropical storm intensity in a warmer climate?. Journal of Climate 22: 2276-2301.
3. Blackmon ML. 1976. A climatological spectral study of the 500 mb geopotential height of the Northern Hemisphere. Journal of Atmospheric Science 33: 1607-1623.
4. Blender R, Schubert M. 2000. Cyclone tracking in different spatial and temporal resolutions. Monthly Weather Review 128: 377-384.
5. Dean DB, Bosart LF. 1996. Northern Hemisphere 500-hPa trough merger and fracture: a climatology and case study. Monthly Weather Review 124: 2644-2671.
6. Hodges KI. 1994. A general method for tracking analysis and its application to meteorological data. Monthly Weather Review 122: 2573-2586.
7. Hodges KI, Hoskins BJ, Boyle J, Thorncroft C. 2003. A general method for tracking analysis and its application to meteorological data. Monthly Weather Review 131: 2012-2037.
8. Hoskins BJ, Hodges KI. 2002. New perspectives on the Northern Hemisphere winter storm tracks. Journal of Atmospheric Science 59: 1041-1061.
9. Hoskins BJ, Hodges KI. 2005. New perspectives on the Southern Hemisphere winter storm tracks. Journal of Climate 18: 4108-4129.
10. Inatsu M, Kimoto M. 2005. Two types of the interannual variability of the mid-winter storm-track and their relationship to the global warming. SOLA 1: 61-64.
11. Lambert S. 1988. A cyclone climatology of the Canadian Climate Centre general circulation model. Journal of Climate 1: 109-115.
12. Le Treut H, Kalnay E. 1990. Comparison of observed and simulated cyclone frequency distribution as determined by an objective method. Atmosfera 3: 57-71.
13. Morel C, Senesi S. 2002. A climatology of mesoscale convective system over Europe using satellite infrared imagery. I: methodology. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 128: 1953-1971.
14. Murray RJ, Simmonds I. 1991. A numerical scheme for tracking cyclone centers from digital data. Part I: development and operation of the scheme. Australian Meteorological Magazine 39: 155-166.
15. Nakamura H. 1992. Midwinter suppression of baroclinic wave activity in the Pacific. Journal of Atmospheric Science 49: 1629-1642.
16. Ogura Y, Nishimura S, Kumabe Y. 2006. Otenki no mikata tanoshimikata (7) Part I (Written in Japanese). Tenki 53: 49-54.
17. Onogi K, Tsutsui J, Koide H, Sakamoto M, Kobayashi S, Hatsushika H, Matsumoto T, Yamazaki N, Kamahori H, Takahashi K, Kadokura S, Wada K, Kato K, Oyama R, Ose T, Mannoji N, Taira R. 2007. The JRA-25 reanalysis. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan 85: 369-432.
18. Pinto JG, Spangehl T, Ulbrich U, Speth P. 2005. Sensitivities of a cyclone detection and tracking algorithm: individual tracks and climatology. Meteorologische Zeitschrift 14: 823-838.
19. Samet H. 1989. Connected component labeling using quadtree. Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery 28: 487-501.
20. Sinclair MR. 1994. An objective cyclone climatology for the Southern Hemisphere. Monthly Weather Review 122: 2239-2256.
21. Sinclair MR. 1997. Objective identification of cyclones and their circulation intensity, and climatology. Weather Forecasting 12: 595-612.
22. Takayabu I. 1991. 'Coupling Development': an efficient mechanism for the development of extratropical cyclones. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan 69: 609-621.
23. Thorncroft CD, Hoskins BJ, McIntyre ME. 1993. Two paradigms of baroclinic-wave life-cycle behaviour. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 119: 17-55.
24. Ulbrich U, Leckebusch GC, Pinto JG. 2009. Extra-tropical cyclones in the present and future climate: a review. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 96: 117-131.
25. van Bebber WJ. 1891. Die Zugstraßen der barometrischen Minima nach den Bahnenkarten der Deutsche Seewarte für den Zeitraum 1875-1890. Meteorologische Zeitschrift 8: 361-366.
26. Vila DA, Machado LAT, Laurent H, Velasco I. 2008. Forecast and tracking the evolution of cloud clusters (ForTraCC) using satellite infrared imagery: methodology and validation. Weather Forecasting 23: 233-245.
27. Wernli H, Schwierz C. 2006. Surface cyclones in the ERA-40 dataset, part I, novel identification method and global climatology. Journal of Atmospheric Science 63: 2486-2507.
28. Xie S-P, Hanfer J, Tanimoto Y, Liu W, Tokinaga H, Xu H. 2002. Bathymetric effect on the winter sea surface temperature and climate of the Yellow and East China Seas. Geophysical Research Letters 29(24): 2228.