Environmental vertical wind shear with Hurricane Bertha (1996)

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 345-356

  Zeh, Raymond M ^a  

^a Office of Research and Application   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; CORRELATION METHODS; HURRICANES; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS;

WIND;

HURRICANE; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTEX; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 0038660151     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2003)018<0345:EVWSWH>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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