Incorporation of equatorial wave modes into tropical synoptic meteorology: Is it worth the trouble?

27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Molinari, John ^a   Vollaro, David ^a   Schreck, Carl ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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