Atmosphere-ocean coupled dynamics of cyclones in the midlatitudes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2432-2451

  Ren, XueJuan ^a   Perrie, William ^b,c   Long, Zhenxia ^b,c   Gyakum, John ^d  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN DYNAMICS; SEA SURFACE FLUXES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES (SST); STORM PROPAGATION;

STORMS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CYCLONE; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STORM TRACK; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 7744220906     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<2432:ACDOCI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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