Thirty years of tropical cyclone research with the NOAA P-3 aircraft

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 87, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1039-1055

  Aberson, Sim D ^a   Black, Michael L ^a   Black, Robert A ^a   Burpee, Robert W ^b   Cione, Joseph J ^a   Landsea, Christopher W ^a   Marks Jr , Frank D ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESEARCH AIRCRAFT; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

STORM SURGE; TROPICAL CYCLONE RESEARCH; WEATHER WARNINGS;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 33748361563     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-87-8-1039     Document Type: Article

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