Meteorological environments associated with medicane development

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-14

  Tous, M ^a   Romero, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate Change; Extreme events; Medicanes; Mediterranean; Synoptic environments

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE METHODS; COASTAL REGIONS; DIABATIC; EMPIRICAL INDEX; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME VALUE; FUTURE CLIMATE; GENESIS MECHANISM; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; INDEX VALUES; LIFE SPAN; MEAN VALUES; MEDICANES; MEDITERRANEAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; PREDICTION CAPABILITY; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; RISK POTENTIALS; SATELLITE DATA; SYNOPTIC ENVIRONMENTS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL OCEAN; TROPOSPHERIC WINDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; STORMS;

HURRICANES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONE; DIABATIC PROCESS; FUTURE PROSPECT; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; RISK FACTOR; SATELLITE DATA; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WIND SHEAR;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84871608336     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3428     Document Type: Article

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