Sea spray impacts on intensifying midlatitude cyclones

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1867-1883

  Perrie, William A ^a,b   Andreas, Edgar L ^c   Zhang, Weiqing ^a,b   Li, Weibiao ^d   Gyakum, John ^e   McTaggart Cowan, Ron ^f  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

^d SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; HURRICANES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS;

MIDLATITUDE CYCLONE; SEA SPRAY; SEA SPRAY IMPACTS;

METEOROLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CYCLONE;

EID: 23744446978     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3436.1     Document Type: Article

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