caa a22 4500 445800569 CHVBK 20180317145139.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00704-011-0424-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00704-011-0424-x Jury Mark Physics Department, University of Puerto Rico, 00681, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico aut Caribbean hurricanes: case study of interacting easterly and westerly waves [Elektronische Daten] [Mark Jury] This observational study considers Caribbean cyclogenesis in the period 2003-2009. Numerous events are identified from maximum of low-level relative vorticity and rain rate, and a case study is analyzed. Although fast moving tropical cyclones (TC) pose dangers to Caribbean Islands, it is the slower moving TC that inflict flood damage. The Atlantic warm pool enlarges through October as steering winds slacken. African easterly waves move over the warm pool and draw moist unstable air, while near-equatorial Kelvin waves from the Pacific surge into the Caribbean. The westerly flow accelerates around the northern Andes and is drawn into TC Omar 13-15 October 2008. A combination of warm pool air and cyclonic vorticity provided by transient zonal waves sets off the process of cyclogenesis. Springer-Verlag, 2011 Theoretical and Applied Climatology Springer Vienna 106/1-2(2011-11-01), 117-126 0177-798X 106:1-2<117 2011 106 704 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-011-0424-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-011-0424-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Jury Mark Physics Department, University of Puerto Rico, 00681, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theoretical and Applied Climatology Springer Vienna 106/1-2(2011-11-01), 117-126 0177-798X 106:1-2<117 2011 106 704 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer