On African easterly waves that impacted two tropical cyclones in 2004

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Peng, Melinda S ^a   Fu, Bing ^b   Hogan, Timothy F ^a   Li, Tim ^b,c  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STORMS; TROPICS; VORTEX FLOW;

EASTERLY WAVES; TIME-FILTERED ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONES; VORTICITY;

METEOROLOGY;

CYCLOGENESIS; EASTERLY WAVE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTICITY;

EID: 33746415783     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026038     Document Type: Article

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