Climate perspective on the large-scale circulation associated with the transition of the first South Atlantic hurricane

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1116-1130

  Pezza, Alexandre Bernardes ^a   Simmonds, Ian ^a   Filho, Augusto Jose Pereira ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Hybrid systems; Mid latitude storms; Southern annular mode; Tropical extra tropical interaction

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; BRAZILIAN COAST; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DYNAMIC VARIABLES; HIGH LATITUDES; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; MID-LATITUDE STORMS; POTENTIAL CONDITIONS; ROBUST PATTERNS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; TEMPERATURE CONTRAST; TRANSITION MECHANISM; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL TRANSITION; TROPICAL-EXTRA-TROPICAL INTERACTION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ELECTRIC GROUNDING; HURRICANES; HYBRID COMPUTERS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; THERMODYNAMICS;

TROPICS;

ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION; HURRICANE EVENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 67649967652     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1757     Document Type: Article

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