A global view of equatorial waves and tropical cyclogenesis

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 774-788

  Schreck, Carl J ^a,b   Molinari, John ^b   Aiyyer, Anantha ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric; Cyclogenesis cyclolysis; Madden Julian oscillation; Tropical cyclones; Waves

Indexed keywords

CYCLOGENESIS; EASTERLY WAVE; EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC; ENHANCED CONVECTION; EQUATORIAL ROSSBY WAVES; EQUATORIAL WAVES; GLOBAL VIEW; INDIAN OCEAN; KELVIN WAVES; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PHILIPPINES; RAINFALL ANOMALY; RAINFALL RATES; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONES; TROPICAL DEPRESSIONS; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; RAIN; STORMS; TROPICS; WAVES;

HURRICANES;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CYCLOGENESIS; EQUATORIAL WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEAN BASIN; ROSSBY WAVE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 84857970674     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00110.1     Document Type: Article

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