A family of frontal cyclones over the western Atlantic Ocean. Part I: A 60-h simulation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1725-1744

  Zhang, Da Lin ^a   Radeva, Ekaterina ^b   Gyakum, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONE; FRONTAL FEATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032729406     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<1725:AFOFCO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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