The spatial distribution and evolution characteristics of North Atlantic cyclones

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 99-115

  Dacre, H F ^a   Gray, S L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC CYCLONES; BAROCLINICITY; CYCLONE TRACKS; DENSITY STATISTICS; EVOLUTION CHARACTERISTICS; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; IDENTIFICATION METHODS; MEAN SEA LEVEL PRESSURES; NORTH ATLANTIC; OBJECTIVE METHODS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURES; RELATIVE VORTICITIES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; SECONDARY CYCLONES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STORM TRACKS; WESTERN EUROPE; WET BULBS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER;

STORMS;

CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONE; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STORM TRACK;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 64149101353     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2491.1     Document Type: Article

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