Synoptic composites of the extratropical transition life cycle of North Atlantic tropical cyclones: Factors determining posttransition evolution

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 553-578

  Hart, Robert E ^a   Evans, Jenni L ^b   Evans, Clark ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HEAT FLUX; STATISTICAL METHODS; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

CYCLONE PHASE SPACE; EXTRATROPICAL TRANSITION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY FLUX; THERMAL WIND;

METEOROLOGY;

SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 33645307092     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3082.1     Document Type: Article

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