Potential vorticity asymmetries and tropical cyclone motion

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 124-131

  Shapiro, Lloyd J ^a,c   Franklin, James L ^b  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLONE; HURRICANE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; STORM; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 0032599676     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<0124:PVAATC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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