Warm ocean anomaly, air sea fluxes, and the rapid intensification of tropical cyclone Nargis (2008)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Lin, I I ^a   Chen, Chi Hong ^a   Pun, Iam Fei ^a   Liu, W Timothy ^b   Wu, Chun Chieh ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA FLUXES; BAY OF BENGAL; ENTHALPY FLUXES; IN-SITU; MYANMARS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN DEPTHS; OCEAN MIXED LAYERS; RAPID INTENSIFICATIONS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRIES; SUB-SURFACE LAYERS; SUB-SURFACE OCEANS; TROPICAL CYCLONES; WARM OCEANS; RAPID INTENSIFICATION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SUB-SURFACE OCEAN; SUBSURFACE LAYER; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WARM OCEAN;

CLIMATOLOGY; OCEAN ENGINEERING; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TROPICS; HURRICANES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; COOLING; ENTHALPY; ISOTHERM; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ASIA; BAY OF BENGAL; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; MYANMAR; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 62749187237     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035815     Document Type: Article

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