Effects of a warm oceanic feature on Hurricane Opal

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1366-1383

  Shay, Lynn K ^a   Goni, Gustavo J ^b   Black, Peter G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; HURRICANE; TROUGH; WARM WATER;

GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 0033913432     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<1366:EOAWOF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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