Impacts of air-sea interaction on tropical cyclone track and intensity

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3299-3314

  Wu, Liguang ^a,b   Wang, Bin ^c   Braun, Scott A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WIND;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; HURRICANE-OCEAN MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL CYCLONE;

STORMS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 28944443501     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3030.1     Document Type: Article

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