Tropical cyclone energy dispersion under vertical shears

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 23, 2007, Pages

  Ge, Xuyang ^a   Li, Tim ^a,b   Zhou, Xiaqiong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

BAROCLINIC MODEL; ROSSBY WAVE; WIND SHEAR;

STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BAROCLINIC MODE; BAROTROPIC MODE; CYCLOGENESIS; EASTERLY WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOSPHERE; WESTERLY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 39049132041     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031867     Document Type: Article

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