Estimating local memory of tropical cyclones through MPI anomaly evolution

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3990-4005

  Hart, Robert E ^a   Maue, Ryan N ^a   Watson, Michael C ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Surfline Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPORATION; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC STABILIZATION; OCEANIC MIXING; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

STORMS;

CLIMATOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; HURRICANE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 38049103110     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2038.1     Document Type: Article

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