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Surface Cyclones over Austral Latitudes: Part I - Bibliographic Review

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to summarize the main synoptic features of four types of cyclones: extratropical cyclone following Bjerknes and Solberg model, extratropical cyclone following Shapiro and Keyser model, tropical and subtropical. We present some conceptual models and mechanisms of cyclogenesis, intensification and cyclolisis of each cyclone kind. The main differences between the four types of cyclones in surface are the horizontal and vertical structures of temperature and relative vorticity fields.

Keywords:
extratropical cyclones; subtropical cyclones; tropical cyclones; life cycle; Southern Hemisphere

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