Conditional instability and shear for six hurricanes over the Atlantic Ocean

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 192-207

  Bogner, Paul B ^a   Barnes, Gary M ^a   Franklin, James L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; METEOROLOGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER MODIFICATION; WIND;

BULK RICHARDSON NUMBER; HORIZONTAL WIND; OMEGA DROPWINDSONDES; SUPERCELL FORMATION; VERTICAL WIND SHEARS;

HURRICANES;

HURRICANE; MODELING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033923934     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2000)015<0192:CIASFS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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