An analysis of the environmental energetics associated with the transition of the first South Atlantic hurricane

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 15, 2008, Pages

  Veiga, José Augusto Paixão ^a   Pezza, Alexandre Bernardes ^b   Simmonds, Ian ^b   Silva Dias, Pedro L ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS;

BAROCLINIC; BAROTROPIC; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; ENERGY CYCLE; ENERGY FLUXES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES; RARE EVENTS; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPICAL TRANSITION;

VORTEX FLOW;

ENERGETICS; HURRICANE EVENT; KINETIC ENERGY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTEX;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 53749095469     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034511     Document Type: Article

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