Warm core structures in organized cloud clusters developing or not developing into tropical storms observed by the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2624-2643

  Bessho, Kotaro ^a   Nakazawa, Tetsuo ^a   Nishimura, Shuji ^b   Kato, Koji ^b  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; AVERAGE TEMPERATURE; CORE STRUCTURE; LEADTIME; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; SPATIAL EXTENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE WINDS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL STORMS; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

CHEMICAL DETECTION; MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; SOUNDING APPARATUS; STORMS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TIME SERIES; TROPICS;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLOUD; STORM; SURFACE WIND; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77958492731     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3073.1     Document Type: Article

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