Rewriting the climatology of the tropical North atlantic and Caribbean Sea atmosphere

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 893-908

  Dunion, Jason P ^a  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Hurricanes; Soundings; Tropical cyclones; Tropics

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ATLANTIC HURRICANE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; DATA SETS; DRY AIR; DRY-AIR INTRUSIONS; HURRICANE SEASON; KINEMATIC CHARACTERISTICS; MEAN SEA LEVEL PRESSURES; MIDLATITUDES; MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGERY; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; SAHARAN AIR LAYERS; SOUNDINGS; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TOTAL PRECIPITABLE WATER; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND SHEARS;

CLIMATOLOGY; HURRICANES; KINEMATICS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; STORMS; THERMODYNAMICS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

TROPICS;

AIR MASS; HURRICANE; PRECIPITABLE WATER; RADIOSONDE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND SHEAR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CARIBBEAN SEA;

EID: 79953787647     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3496.1     Document Type: Article

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