Upper-ocean thermal structure and the Western North Pacific category 5 typhoons. Part I: Ocean features and the category 5 typhoons' intensification

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3288-3306

  Lin, I I ^a   Wu, Chun Chieh ^a   Pun, Iam Fei ^a   Ko, Dong Shan ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SATELLITES;

HURRICANE - KATRINA; IN-SITU; KUROSHIO; OCEAN MIXED LAYERS; SATELLITE ALTIMETERS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY DATA; SEA-SURFACE-HEIGHT; STRUCTURE DATA; UPPER-OCEAN HEAT; WARM OCEAN; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

STORMS;

CYCLONE; EDDY; GYRE; HURRICANE EVENT; MIXED LAYER; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; THERMAL STRUCTURE; TYPHOON;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 53749097777     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2277.1     Document Type: Article

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