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HOME > Climate & Weather Linkage > Alaska Storm Track Monitoring
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Storm tracks are based on an algorithm originally developed at the Earth System Resource Laboratory (ESRL) [Serreze (1995), and Serreze et al. (1997)]. Storm tracks are identified by locating grid points in which the mean sea level pressure (MSLP) is less than its surrounding grid points by at least 1 hPa. The storms are tracked by analyzing the position of systems between time steps and applying a maximum distance threshold between candidate pairings (800 km) and additional other quality control checks. Red/blue dots indicate active storms as of 18 UTC for the respective plot ending date.
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- Short-term Monitoring, Outlooks, and Assessment
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- Historical Track Database
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Web based form that allows the display of historical seasonal storm tracks and storm frequency from the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis dataset for the years 1950-2006.
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Information related to Alaska storm track research. Includes the Alaska storm track climatology, storm track composites for the phases of the ENSO cycle as well as other research being conducted at the Climate Prediction Center related to Alaska storminess.
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Alaska Storm Track Climatology
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Alaska Storm Track Composites
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Alaska Extreme Seasonal Storminess
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Eichler, T. and R. W. Higgins, 2006: Climatology and ENSO-Related Variability of North American Extratropical Cyclone Activity, J. Climate, Accepted.
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Serreze, M. C., 1995: Climatological Aspects of Cyclone Development and Decay in the Arctic, Atmos.-Ocean, 33, 1-23.
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Serreze, M. C., F. Carse, R.G. Barry and J.C. Rogers, 1997: Icelandic Low Cyclone Activity: Climatological Features, Linkages with the NAO and Relationships with Recent Changes in the Northern Hemisphere Circulation, J. Climate, 10, 453-464.
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