Four years of tropical ERA-40 vorticity maxima tracks. Part I: Climatology and vertical vorticity structure

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4301-4319

  Kerns, Brandon ^a   Greene, Kantave ^b   Zipser, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGY; RHENIUM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC; CENTRAL AMERICA; EASTERLY WAVES; EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC; EUROPEANS; GEOGRAPHICAL SEPARATIONS; MAJOR FACTORS; NEW RESULTS; TRACK DENSITIES; VERTICAL VORTICITIES;

VORTICITY;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; CLIMATOLOGY; CYCLONE; EASTERLY WAVE; VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 57149142263     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2390.1     Document Type: Article

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