Do frontal cyclones change size? Observed widths of North Pacific lows

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 6 I, 1999, Pages 1089-1095

  Grotjahn, Richard ^a   Hodyss, Daniel ^a   Castello, Cris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLONE; FRONTAL FEATURE; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032693622     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<1089:DFCCSO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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