Intensity and structure changes during hurricane eyewall replacement cycles

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3829-3847

  Sitkowski, Matthew ^a   Kossin, James P ^a,b   Rozoff, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft observations; Climatology; Hurricanes; Operational forecasting

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; ATLANTIC BASIN; CONCENTRIC RINGS; DATA SETS; EYEWALL; INTENSITY OSCILLATIONS; MAXIMUM INTENSITIES; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; REPLACEMENT CYCLES; STORM CENTER; STRUCTURE CHANGE; TEMPORAL SAMPLING; WIND FIELD;

CLIMATOLOGY; HURRICANES; STORMS;

RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT;

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; HURRICANE; HURRICANE EVENT; INNER CORE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WIND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84855815204     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00034.1     Document Type: Article

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