Acceleration of the hurricane beta drift by shear strain rate of an environmental flow

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 327-334

  Li, Xiaofan ^a   Wang, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA DRIFT; GEOPHYSICAL FLOWS; HURRICANES;

BETA DRIFT SPEED; BETA GYRE INTENSITY; FLOW MERIDIONAL COMPONENT; HURRICANE BETA DRIFT; SHEAR STRAIN RATE; TROPICAL CYCLONE STEERING; TROPICAL ZONAL FLOW; VERTICAL VORTICITY;

EID: 0029656549     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1996)053<0327:AOTHBD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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