Date of Award

1-1-2018

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences

Content Description

1 online resource (vi, 158 pages) : color illustrations, color maps.

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Daniel Keyser

Committee Members

Christopher A Davis, Andrea L Lang, Ryan D Torn

Keywords

Cyclones, Severe storms, Climatology, Climatic extremes

Subject Categories

Atmospheric Sciences

Abstract

Cool-season extreme weather events (EWEs) occurring over central and eastern North America are typically associated with strong extratropical cyclones (ECs) that are governed by varying combinations of baroclinic, diabatic, and barotropic processes. This dissertation investigates the climatology, evolution, and predictability of ECs leading to EWEs over central and eastern North America, and provides a foundation on which to compare ECs leading to EWEs to ordinary ECs forming over and traversing the same regions.

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