Formation of tropical cyclones in the Northern Indian ocean associated with two types of tropical intraseasonal oscillation modes

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 475-496

  Kikuchi, Kazuyoshi ^a   Wang, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CYCLOGENESIS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONALITY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77954944903     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2010-313     Document Type: Article

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