Seasonal and intraseasonal modulation of tropical cyclogenesis environment over the bay of bengal during the extended summer monsoon

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2914-2930

  Yanase, Wataru ^a   Satoh, Masaki ^a   Taniguchi, Hiroshi ^b   Fujinami, Hatsuki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Monsoons; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VORTICITY; BAY OF BENGAL; BOREAL SUMMER INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATION; COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; CYCLOGENESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL FIELDS; HIGH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; MONSOON SEASON; MONSOONS; POST-MONSOON; PRE-MONSOON; REANALYSIS; SUMMER MONSOON; TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL SHEAR;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; HURRICANES;

TROPICS;

CYCLOGENESIS; MONSOON; SEASONALITY; SUMMER; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84859956717     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00208.1     Document Type: Article

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