The influence of eastern Pacific tropical cyclone remnants on the southwestern United States

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 192-210

  Ritchie, Elizabeth A ^a   Wood, Kimberly M ^a   Gutzler, David S ^b   White, Sarah R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; CLOUD COVER; EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC; EASTERN PACIFIC; FOUR-GROUP; GULF COAST; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; ME-XICO; MOVEMENT PATTERN; RAINFALL PATTERNS; SMALL GROUPS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEST COAST;

HURRICANES; STORMS; TROPICS;

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLOUD COVER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951606974     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3389.1     Document Type: Article

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