Simulations of the extratropical transition of tropical cyclones: Contributions by the midlatitude upper-level trough to reintensification

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2112-2128

  Ritchie, Elizabeth A ^a   Elsberry, Russell L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; TROPOSPHERE;

SURFACE PRESSURES;

STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CYCLOGENESIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRANSFORMATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROUGH;

EID: 0142010027     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<2112:SOTETO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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