Tropical cyclone motion and surrounding flow relationships: Searching for beta gyres in omega dropwindsonde datasets

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 64-84

  Franklin, James L ^a,b   Feuer, Steven E ^a   Kaplan, John ^a   Aberson, Sim D ^a  

^a NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0001798523     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1996)124<0064:TCMASF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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