Upper-ocean thermal structure and the western north pacific category 5 typhoons. Part II: Dependence on translation speed

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3744-3757

  Lin, I I ^a   Pun, Iam Fei ^a   Wu, Chun Chieh ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGO FLOAT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA SETS; ENTHALPY FLUXES; IN-SITU; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MIXED LAYER; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEW CONCEPT; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN HEAT CONTENT; OCEAN MIXED LAYERS; SHALLOW SUBSURFACE; SUBSURFACE CONDITIONS; SUBSURFACE LAYER; THERMAL STRUCTURE; TRANSLATION SPEED; WARM SEA; WARNING CENTERS; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ENTHALPY; FEEDBACK; HURRICANES; SPEED; STORMS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ENTHALPY; HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMAL STRUCTURE; TYPHOON; UPPER OCEAN;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77649295596     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2713.1     Document Type: Article

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