Campins, J. (Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia, Palma de Mallorca, Spain)
Genoves, A. (same affiliation)
Jansa, A. (same affiliation)
Guijarro, J.A. (same affiliation)
Ramis, C. (Departament de Fisica. Universitat de les Illes Balears. Spain)
From 1992 the ocurrence of a cyclone in the Western Mediterranean is achived at the Meteorological Center of the Balearic Islands. This database is extracted from hand analysis of pressure charts, so from a subjective way. Otherwise, another database of cyclones in the Western Mediterranean, extracted from a LAM-INM analysis, therefore objective, has been obtained. That was performed from geopotential height at 1000 hPa for the same period (1992-1995).
In this study we did a cyclone catalogation with a cluster analysis for the subjective and objective databases.
The frequency and location of each typology for both databases and a comparision between them was obtained.
Finally, some conclusions on surface pressure distribution of Western Mediterranean cyclones were presented.