A characteristic life cycle of upper-tropospheric cyclogenetic precursors during the Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones over the Atlantic (ERICA)

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 125, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2729-2758

  Lackmann, Gary M ^a,b   Keyser, Daniel ^a   Bosart, Lance F ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; JETS; TROPOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC; CHARACTERISTIC LIFE CYCLE; DYNAMIC TROPOPAUSE; FRONTAL ZONE; MIDTROPOSPHERIC CYCLONIC VORTICITY; SURFACE CYCLOGENESIS OFFSHORE; TRANSVERSE JET FRONT CIRCULATIONS; UPPER TROPOSPHERIC CYCLOGENETIC PRECURSOR;

STORMS;

EID: 0031268962     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1997)125<2729:ACLCOU>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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