A family of frontal cyclones over the western Atlantic Ocean. Part II: Parameter studies

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1745-1760

  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

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONE; FRONTAL FEATURE; LATENT HEAT FLUX;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032750660     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<1745:AFOFCO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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