Transition from an eastern Pacific upper-level mixed Rossby-gravity wave to a western Pacific tropical cyclone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 24, 2007, Pages

  Zhou, Xiaqiong ^a   Wang, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GRAVITY WAVES; SHEAR FLOW; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC TROPICAL CYCLONE; ROSSBY-GRAVITY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

STORMS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; GRAVITY WAVE; PRESSURE FIELD; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE PROPERTY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 39549097973     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031831     Document Type: Article

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