Western North Pacific typhoons with concentric eyewalls

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3758-3770

  Kuo, Hung Chi ^a   Chang, Chih Pei ^b   Yang, Yi Ting ^a   Jiang, Hau Jang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; CONCENTRIC STRUCTURES; EYEWALL; FILAMENTATION; HIGH INTENSITY; HIGHER LATITUDES; INTENSITY CHANGE; KEY FEATURE; PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; PEAK INTENSITY; RAPID INTENSIFICATION; THE STANDARD MODEL; TRACK DATA; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

MICROWAVES; TIME SERIES;

HURRICANES;

MODELING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TYPHOON;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77649320861     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2850.1     Document Type: Article

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