A local energetics analysis of the life cycle differences between consecutive, explosively deepening, continental cyclones

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 295-316

  Decker, Steven G ^a   Martin, Jonathan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVES; KINETIC ENERGY; LIFE CYCLE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CYCLOLYSIS; DOWNSTREAM ENERGY; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY (EKE); ENERGETICS ANALYSIS;

STORMS;

CYCLONE; ENERGETICS; KINETIC ENERGY; STORM TRACK;

NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 14344260712     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-2860.1     Document Type: Article

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