89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Wednesday, 14 January 2009
Tornado frequency and its large-scale environments over Ontario, Canada
Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)
Zuohao Cao, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and H. Cai
Poster PDF (162.3 kB)
Over the last almost six decades, there exist ever-increasing changes in tornado frequency over Ontario, Canada. It has been identified for the first time that there is a robust upward trend in tornado frequency, demonstrated through the MK test with consideration of removing a lag one autoregressive process. It is shown through a composite analysis that in the warming climate the tornado events occur more frequently over Ontario, especially under atmospheric conditions with stronger low-level cyclonic circulations, baroclinicity, and atmospheric convective instability.

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