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LECHA ESTELA, Luis B.  y  SOLER TORRES, Edgardo. Synoptic climatology of Cuba. Part 1: Evolution of studies on the types of situations that affect Cuba. Rev. Cubana Met. [online]. 2023, vol.29, n.4  Epub 01-Dic-2023. ISSN 2664-0880.

The report is based on 118 references with information from studies carried out on the synoptic processes that influence Cuba (98 Cuban and 20 foreign). A periodization of the studies was carried out, which allows establishing three stages: the first covers the 19th and 20th centuries until 1980, in which the initial studies on the climate of Cuba are grouped, until reaching the studies carried out in the first decades of the Revolution. The second stage begins in 1980, characterized by research associated with the first doctoral theses of Cuban specialists, research within the Joint Cuban-Soviet Laboratory of Tropical Meteorology and the rise of climatological-synoptic studies, mostly collected in important publications such as The New National Atlas of Cuba, the book The Climate of Cuba and the first national communications from Cuba to the UNFCCC. The third and final stage corresponds to a stage of consolidation of studies on the synoptic processes that affect the country, the analysis of their genesis, the variations and changes associated with the already present effects of climate change, as well as the observed impacts. It ends with the description of the novel Catalog of the TSS that influence Cuba. Finally, the importance of this branch of meteorological science is assessed, its requirements for homogeneity and updating, as well as the convenience of working on the future development of new objective criteria for the classification of synoptic processes that affect Cuba.

Palabras clave : Atmospheric circulations; Classification of synoptic processes; Meteorology in Cuba.

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