Atmospheric pressure-wave bands around a cold front resulted in a meteotsunami in the East China Sea in February 2009

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2599-2610

  Tanaka, K ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; COLD FRONT; GRAVITY WAVE; JET STREAM; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; TSUNAMI EVENT; WAVE PROPAGATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EAST CHINA SEA; JAPAN; KYUSHU; NAGASAKI [KYUSHU]; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); SIBERIA;

EID: 78650579106     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-10-2599-2010     Document Type: Article

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