PSYC 1150 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Occluded Front, Landfall, Canadian Hurricane Centre
5 Feb 2015
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Tropical cyclones and extratropical cyclones: tropical cyclones. Form over warm tropical or subtropical oceans (5-20 latitude) Have warm central cores; not associated with fronts: extratropical cyclones. Develop over land or water in temperate regions (30-70 latitude) Tropical cyclone in the atlantic and eastern pacific ocean. Tropical cyclones in the western pacific ocean north of the equator. Tropical cyclones in the indian ocean and the pacific ocean south of the. Extratropical cyclone moving northward along the east coast of north america. Saffir- simpson scale: hurricanes are classified based on wind speed. Naming: hurricanes are named by international agreement through world meteorological. An organized area of thunderstorms persisting for more than 24 hours. Typically 200 to 600 km in diameter. Associated with an elongated area of low pressure. Can form in different ways: along lines of convergence, in upper level troughs of low pressure from remnants of cold fronts, from easterly waves of converging and diverging winds that develop.
