The antecedent large-scale conditions of the "Perfect Storms" of late October and early November 1991

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2546-2569

  Cordeira, Jason M ^a   Bosart, Lance F ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; COASTAL FLOODING; CYCLOGENESIS; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; EXTRATROPICAL; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; EXTRATROPICAL TRANSITION; HIGH MOISTURE; LARGE-SCALE FLOWS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH PACIFIC; NORTHWEST ATLANTIC; PERFECT STORM; PHYSICAL PROCESS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; TROPICAL CONVECTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; HURRICANES; KINETIC ENERGY;

STORMS;

ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; BAROCLINIC MODE; CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONE; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; HURRICANE; KINETIC ENERGY; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77958085311     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3280.1     Document Type: Article

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