Vorticity asymmetries in Hurricane Josephine (1984)

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 122, Issue 530, 1996, Pages 391-413

  Glatz, Arno ^a   Smith, Roger K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymmetric flow; Hurricanes; Observational field experiments; Tropical cyclones; Vorticity

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIES; HURRICANES; VORTICITY;

BAROTROPIC VORTEX MOTION; FLOW EXPERIMENT; HURRICANE WIND FIELD; OMEGA DROPWINDSONDE OBSERVATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE MOTION; VORTEX ASYMMETRY;

EID: 0029656406     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.53004     Document Type: Article

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