Moisture transport into midlatitudes ahead of recurving tropical cyclones and its relevance in two predecessor rain events

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1810-1827

  Schumacher, Russ S ^a,b   Galarneau, Thomas J ^c  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Flood events; Moisture moisture budget; Precipitation; Tropical cyclones; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUDGET CONTROL; FLOODS; FORECASTING; HURRICANES; MOISTURE; RAIN; TROPICS; WATER VAPOR;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; FLOOD EVENT; MIDLATITUDES; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; MOISTURE/MOISTURE BUDGETS; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; RAIN EVENTS; SYSTEMS RESEARCH; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WATER VAPOUR;

TROPICAL CYCLONE;

FLOODING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; MOISTURE TRANSFER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84864837356     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00307.1     Document Type: Article

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