Atmospheric sensitivity to SST near the Kuroshio Extension during the extratropical transition of Typhoon Tokage

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2644-2663

  Bond, Nicholas A ^a   Cronin, Meghan F ^b   Garvert, Matthew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRATROPICAL TRANSITION; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; NORTH PACIFIC; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; REANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SIMULATED STORMS; SST PERTURBATIONS; UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH; WARM FRONTS; WEATHER RESEARCH FORECASTS; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HURRICANES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; STORMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; GEOPOTENTIAL; HEAT FLUX; OCEAN BASIN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STORM; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON; WARM FRONT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

KUROSHIO EXTENSION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77958510721     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3198.1     Document Type: Article

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