Interaction between concentric eye-walls in super typhoon Winnie (1997)

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 612, 2005, Pages 3183-3204

  Zhang, Qing Hong ^a,b   Kuo, Ying Hwa ^a   Chen, Shou Jun ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Potential vorticity; Vortex Rossby waves

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; RAIN; STORMS; VORTEX FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND EFFECTS;

CONCENTRIC EYE-WALLS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; VORTEX ROSSBY WAVES;

METEOROLOGY;

ROSSBY WAVE; TYPHOON; VORTICITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 31944432817     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.33     Document Type: Article

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