The interaction between Hurricane Opal (1995) and a warm core ring in the Gulf of Mexico

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1347-1365

  Hong, Xiaodong ^a,b   Chang, Simon W ^b   Raman, Sethu ^a   Shay, Lynn K ^c   Hodur, Richard ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; HURRICANE; WARM WATER;

GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 0033928479     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<1347:TIBHOA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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