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Analysis Of Several Subtropical Cyclones By Means Of The High-Resolution HARMONIE-AROME Model
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  • Lara Quitián Hernández,
  • Daniel Santos-Muñoz,
  • Juan Jesús González Alemán,
  • Javier Diaz-Fernandez,
  • Sergio Fernández-González,
  • Pedro Bolgiani,
  • Mariano Sastre,
  • Francisco Valero,
  • Maria Luisa Martin
Lara Quitián Hernández
Complutense University of Madrid

Corresponding Author:lquitian@ucm.es

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Daniel Santos-Muñoz
State Meteorological Agency (AEMET), Leonardo Prieto Castro, 8. 28040 Madrid. Spain.
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Juan Jesús González Alemán
UCLM (University of Castilla-La Mancha), Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Biochemistry
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Javier Diaz-Fernandez
Department of Astrophysics and Atmospheric Sciences. Faculty of Physics. Complutense University of Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n. 28040 Madrid. Spain.
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Sergio Fernández-González
State Meteorological Agency (AEMET), Leonardo Prieto Castro, 8. 28040 Madrid. Spain.
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Pedro Bolgiani
Department of Astrophysics and Atmospheric Sciences. Faculty of Physics. Complutense University of Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n. 28040 Madrid. Spain.
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Mariano Sastre
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Francisco Valero
Dpto. Astrofísica y Física de la Atmósfera. Facultad de Física. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Ciudad Universitaria s/n. 28040 Madrid. Spain.
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Maria Luisa Martin
Dpto. Matemática Aplicada. E. de Ingeniería Informática. Universidad de Valladolid. Pza. Alto de los Leones, 1. 40005 Segovia. Spain.
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Abstract

Subtropical cyclones (STCs) are characterized by a hybrid structure sharing tropical and extratropical features. The impacts of this kind of cyclones are similar to the generated by tropical storms or even hurricanes, leading to widespread social damage and great economic losses. Carrying out accurate simulations becomes key for a forecast improvement of these extreme events. In this study, several STCs that hit the northeastern Atlantic coasts and experimented a transition into tropical storms (Delta 2005) or even hurricanes (Vince 2005 and Ophelia 2017) are assessed by means of simulations using the high-resolution HARMONIE-AROME model. This model is developed and operated at 2.5 km resolution through the collaboration of the 10 European National Meteorological Services (NMS) that are part of the international research program HIRLAM together with the 16 countries that comprise the ALADIN consortium. The HARMONIE-AROME model has a convection-permitting configuration and uses a non-hydrostatic spectral dynamical core with a semi-Lagrangian and semi-implicit discretization of the equations. In this way, more realistic results are obtained, which allows providing an added value to the study of tropical transitions.