Mesoscale cyclone activity over the ice-free Southern Ocean: 1999-2008

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 5404-5420

  Irving, Damien ^a   Simmonds, Ian ^a   Keay, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climatology; Mesocyclones; Numerical analysis modeling; Satellite observations; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; CYCLONE CLIMATOLOGY; FINDING ALGORITHM; HIGH LATITUDES; HIGH RESOLUTION; ICE ZONES; ICE-FREE REGIONS; MAXIMUM WIND SPEED; MESOCYCLONES; MESOSCALE CYCLONES; MOMENTUM FLUX; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING; OCEAN SURFACES; PARTIAL CORRELATION; POLAR LOWS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SCATTEROMETERS; SMALL SIZE; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SURFACE PRESSURE FIELD; UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE; UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON;

CLIMATE CHANGE; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

STORMS;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATOLOGY; CYCLONE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURFACE PRESSURE;

AMUNDSEN SEA; BELLINGSHAUSEN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 78649275347     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3628.1     Document Type: Article

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