Reexamination of tropical cyclone wind-pressure relationships

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-88

  Knaff, John A ^a   Zehr, Raymond M ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL; STORMS; WIND;

DROPWINDSONDES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND-PRESSURE RELATIONSHIPS;

METEOROLOGY;

ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND FORCING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 33947255564     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF965.1     Document Type: Article

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