The effect of translation speed upon the intensity of tropical cyclones over the tropical ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Mei, Wei ^a   Pasquero, Claudia ^b   Primeau, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; HURRICANES; SPEED;

COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; INTENSITY FORECASTS; OPERATIONAL FORECASTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACES; STORM INTENSITY; TRACK DATA; TRANSLATION SPEED; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL OCEAN; TROPICAL REGIONS; TROPICAL STORMS; UPPER OCEAN;

STORMS;

COOLING; CORRELATION; DECADAL VARIATION; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL REGION; UPPER OCEAN;

EID: 84859600857     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050765     Document Type: Article

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