Observations of vortex rossby waves associated with a mesoscale cyclone

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2333-2340

  Chavanne, Cédric P ^a,c   Flament, Pierre ^a   Luther, Douglas S ^a   Gurgel, Klaus Werner ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mesoscale processes; Rossby waves; Tropical cyclones; Vortices

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND CURRENT; BACKGROUND FLOW; DISPERSION RELATIONS; DOPPLER CURRENT METERS; E-FOLDING; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; MESOSCALE CYCLONES; MESOSCALE PROCESS; OCEANIC VORTICES; PHASE SPEED; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; RADIAL GRADIENT; ROSSBY NUMBERS; ROSSBY WAVE; SHORT-WAVELENGTH; THEORETICAL STUDY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL SHEAR; VORTICES;

HURRICANES; OCEAN CURRENTS; PHASE METERS; STORMS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

VORTEX FLOW;

KINETIC ENERGY; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY NUMBER; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTEX FLOW; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; OAHU; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77958611656     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4495.1     Document Type: Article

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