Targeting studies for the extratropical transition of hurricane fabian: Signal propagation, the interaction between fabian and midlatitude flow, and an observation strategy

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3224-3242

  Chen, Hua ^a,b   Pan, Weiyu ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION PROCESS; AIR FLOW; CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; ENERGY DISPERSIONS; ET PROCESS; EXTRATROPICAL TRANSITION; HIGHER LATITUDES; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MIDLATITUDES; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; POTENTIAL VORTICITY GRADIENTS; SIGNAL PROPAGATION; SYNOPTIC PROCESS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH;

EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; HURRICANES; OCEAN CURRENTS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VORTICITY;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

CLIMATE PREDICTION; HURRICANE EVENT; JET STREAM; NUMERICAL METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOSPHERE;

FABIA;

EID: 77958495162     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR2888.1     Document Type: Article

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