The extratropical transition and precipitation distribution of hurricane Floyd (1999)

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1063-1081

  Atallah, Eyad H ^a   Bosart, Lance F ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; HEATING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CATASTROPIC FLOODINGS;

HURRICANES;

HURRICANE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037494777     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<1063:TETAPD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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