Effects of preexisting cyclonic eddies on upper ocean responses to Category 5 typhoons in the western North Pacific

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Zheng, Zhe Wen ^a   Ho, Chung Ru ^a   Zheng, Quanan ^b   Lo, Yao Tsai ^a   Kuo, Nan Jung ^a   Gopalakrishnan, Ganesh ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; NUMERICAL METHODS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN;

CYCLONIC EDDY; DYNAMIC CONDITION; HYBRID COORDINATE; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MESOSCALE; MICROWAVE SCANNING; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION METHOD; OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION; SATELLITE ALTIMETER; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEA SURFACES; SEA-SURFACE HEIGHT ANOMALIES; SYSTEMATICAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; UPPER OCEAN; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC; WORLD OCEAN;

HURRICANES;

COOLING; CYCLONE; EOS; MESOSCALE EDDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TYPHOON; UPPER OCEAN;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 77956801579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005562     Document Type: Article

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