Synopticand frontal-scale influences on tropical transition events in the Atlantic basin. Part II: Tropical transition of Hurricane Karen

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3626-3650

  Hulme, Andrew L ^a   Martin, Jonathan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC BASIN; ATLANTIC HURRICANE; COLD AIR; EXTRATROPICAL; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; FINE-SCALE SIMULATION; INTENSE VORTEX; MIDLATITUDE CYCLONES; OCEAN SURFACES; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SELF-AMPLIFICATION; SHEAR ENVIRONMENTS; TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL STORMS; TROPICAL TRANSITION; VORTICITY FIELD; WESTERN SIDE;

AMPLIFICATION; HURRICANE EFFECTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS; VORTICITY;

STORMS;

CONVECTION; CYCLOGENESIS; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; FRONTOGENESIS; HURRICANE EVENT; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 77649320561     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2803.1     Document Type: Article

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