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Hurricane Agnes — an event shaped by large‐scale air‐sea systems generated during antecedent months
Author(s) -
Namias J.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49709942109
Subject(s) - antecedent (behavioral psychology) , climatology , atmosphere (unit) , scale (ratio) , antecedent moisture , event (particle physics) , environmental science , meteorology , geology , oceanography , geography , cartography , physics , psychology , drainage basin , developmental psychology , quantum mechanics , runoff curve number
An attempt is made to show that the life history of hurricane Agnes was determined by the antecedent slow evolution of the general circulation on a time scale of months. A self‐aggravating complex of midtropospheric anomalies is described and quantified ‐ this complex predisposing the eastern seaboard to the aberrant path assumed by Agnes and providing deep moisture‐laden air masses from a very warm western Atlantic. The stable configuration of the centres of action is partly attributed to ocean‐atmosphere interactions.