The hurricane rainbrand and intensity change experiment

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1503-1521

  Houze Jr , Robert A ^a   Chen, Shuyi S ^b   Lee, Wen Chau ^c   Rogers, Robert F ^d   Moore, James A ^c   Strossmeister, Gregory J ^c   Bell, Michael M ^c   Cetrone, Jasmine ^a   Zhao, Wei ^b   Brodzik, S Rita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA TRANSFER; DOPPLER RADAR; HURRICANE EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ELECTRA DOPPLER RADAR; HURRICANE RAINBAND AND INTENSITY CHANGE EXPERIMENT; TROPICAL CYCLONE INTENSITY CHANGE;

HURRICANES;

EID: 33845429710     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-87-11-1503     Document Type: Article

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