The formation of hurricane Humberto (2001): The importance of extra-tropical precursors

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 619, 2006, Pages 2055-2085

  Davis, Christopher A ^a   Bosart, Lance F ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Modelling; Nested domains; Potential vorticity; Scatterometer winds; Simulated time series; Tropical depression; Vertical cross section; Vertical shear

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; HEAT CONVECTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW;

DIABATIC HEATING; EVAPORATIVE COOLING; LOWER-TROPOSPHERIC VERTICAL VORTICITY; TROPICAL DEPRESSION; VERTICAL SHEAR;

HURRICANES;

BAROCLINIC MODE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLOGENESIS; DIABATIC PROCESS; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; HURRICANE; TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 33750136390     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.42     Document Type: Article

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