Downstream development associated with the extratropical transition of tropical cyclones over the western North Pacific

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1295-1319

  Harr, Patrick A ^a   Dea, Jonathan M ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PHYSICAL PROCESS; CYCLOGENESIS; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; ET PROCESS; EXTRATROPICAL TRANSITION; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; MIDLATITUDE CYCLONES; MIDLATITUDES; NORTH PACIFIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OCEAN BASINS; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; ROSSBY WAVE RESPONSE; SPACE AND TIME; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR; WEATHER EVENTS; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC; WIDE SPECTRUM;

ATMOSPHERICS; HURRICANES; OCEAN CURRENTS; TROPICS;

STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CYCLOGENESIS; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; KINETIC ENERGY; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEAN BASIN; ROSSBY WAVE; TIMESCALE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON; WIND SHEAR;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

FICUS BENGHALENSIS;

EID: 68249149280     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2558.1     Document Type: Article

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