Sensitivity of midlatitude storm intensification to perturbations in the sea surface temperature near the Gulf Stream

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1241-1256

  Booth, James F ^a,c   Thompson, Luanne ^b   Patoux, Jérôme ^a   Kelly, Kathryn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction, Diabatic heating, Extratropical cyclones, Synoptic scale processes

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; CONVEYOR BELTS; CYCLOGENESIS; DIABATIC HEATING; GULF STREAM; GULF STREAM REGION; LATE STAGE; LATENT HEAT RELEASE; LOCAL FORCING; MIDLATITUDES; MODELING RESULTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SST PERTURBATIONS; SURFACE FLUX; WARM FRONTS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BELT CONVEYORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

STORMS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CYCLOGENESIS; DIABATIC PROCESS; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; PERTURBATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STORM; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM;

EID: 84861568415     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00195.1     Document Type: Article

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