Climatology of tropical cyclogenesis in the North Atlantic (1948-2004)

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1284-1304

  McTaggart Cowan, Ron ^a,d   Deane, Glenn D ^b   Bosart, Lance F ^b   Davis, Christopher A ^c   Galarneau Jr , Thomas J ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d National Center for Atmospheric Research ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; METEOROLOGY; MINE FLOODING; STORMS;

(SPM) CLASSES; AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); ATLANTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAROCLINICITY; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME (CS); CONCEPTUAL MODELLING; EVOLUTION (CO); FIELD STUDIES; FORCINGS; GEOGRAPHICAL CLUSTERING; HURRICANE SEASON; INITIATION (ELECTRIC DISCHARGES); INTENSE (CO); LANDFALLING; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; METRICS (CO); NORTH AMERICA; NORTH ATLANTIC (NA); NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PHYSICAL SYNTHESIS; TRAJECTORY MODELING; TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS; TROPICAL CYCLONES (TCS);

TROPICS;

CLIMATOLOGY; CYCLOGENESIS; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; HURRICANE; MODELING; PERTURBATION; STORM; VORTEX; VORTICITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 45749099773     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2245.1     Document Type: Article

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