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2. http://www.weather.org.uk/resource/ukswxglo.htm. uk.sci.weather FAQ: GLOSSARY

3. Dr. Rodrigue. http://www.csulb.edu/~rodrigue/geog140/lectures/storms.html. Geography 140; Introduction to Physical Geography; Lecture: Storms as an Element of Weather.

4. USA Today On-Line. http://www.usatoday.com/weather/tg/wnoreast/wbombs.htm. Bomb cyclones ravage northwestern Atlantic.

5. Konrad II, Charless E., Stephen J. Colucci, 1988: Synoptic Climatology of 500 mb Circulation Changes during Explosive Cyclogenesis. Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 116, No. 7, pp. 1431-1443.

6. Hakim, Gregory J., 2000: Climatology of Coherent Structures on the Extratropical Tropopause. Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 128, No. 2, pp. 385-406.

7. Ibid.

8. http://www.weather.org.uk/resource/ukswxglo.htm. uk.sci.weather FAQ: GLOSSARY

9. Gaza, Robert S., Lance F. Bosart, 1990: Trough-Merger Characteristics over North America. Weather and Forecasting: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 314-332.

10. Kocin, Paul J., Louis W. Uccellini: A Survey of Major East Coast Snowstorms, 1960-1983. Part II: Case Studies of Eighteen Storms. p. 210.

11. Ibid., pp. 28-36

12. Ibid., pp. 68-76.

13. Ibid., pp. 170-178.

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