Low-level African easterly wave activity and its relation to Atlantic tropical cyclogenesis in 2001

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3950-3964

  Ross, Robert S ^a   Krishnamurti, T N ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY;

AFRICAN EASTERLY JET; AFRICAN EASTERLY WAVES; ATLANTIC TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS;

STORMS;

CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONE; EASTERLY WAVE; JET STREAM; MONSOON; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 38049110125     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR1996.1     Document Type: Article

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