The use of pre-storm boundary-layer baroclinicity in determining and operationally implementing the Atlantic Surface Cyclone Intensification Index

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 211-224

  Cione, Joseph J ^a   Neuherz, Richard A ^b   Raman, Sethu ^c   Pietrafesa, Leonard J ^c   Keeter, Kermit ^b   Li, Xiaofeng ^d  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NOAA/National Weather Service   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Baroclinicity; Cold air advection; Cyclogenesis; Gulf Stream; Rapid deepening

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; BAROCLINIC ATMOSPHERE; BOUNDARY LAYER; COLD AIR; CYCLOGENESIS;

EID: 0032413013     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1001773019199     Document Type: Article

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