A potential vorticity tendency diagnostic approach for tropical cyclone motion

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1899-1911

  Wu, Liguang ^a   Wang, Bin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BAROCLINIC MOTION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 0033910662     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<1899:APVTDA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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