Application of the marsupial paradigm to tropical cyclone formation from northwestward-propagating disturbances

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 66-76

  Wang, Zhuo ^a   Dunkerton, Timothy J ^b   Montgomery, Michael T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^c NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Storm tracks; Tropical cyclones; Vorticity

Indexed keywords

EASTERLY WAVE; FRAME OF REFERENCE; GLOBAL MODELS; GULF OF MEXICO; LAGRANGIAN; METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PROPAGATION SPEED; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; STORM TRACKS; TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WESTERN ATLANTIC; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

ALGORITHMS; HURRICANES; STORMS; VORTICITY;

TROPICS;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; CYCLOGENESIS; MOISTURE FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST); GULF OF MEXICO; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

METATHERIA;

EID: 84862975452     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011MWR3604.1     Document Type: Article

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