Environmental factors contributing to tropical cyclone genesis over the western north pacific

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 451-467

  Yoshida, Ryuji ^a   Ishikawa, Hirohiko ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Classification; Monsoons; Pattern detection; Ranking methods; Tropical cyclones; Troposphere

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; MONSOONS; MULTIPLE FLOW PATTERNS; PATTERN DETECTION; RANKING METHODS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); HURRICANES; SHEAR FLOW; TROPOSPHERE;

FLOW PATTERNS;

ALGORITHM; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; CORRELATION; CYCLOGENESIS; DATA PROCESSING; EASTERLY WAVE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLOW PATTERN; MONSOON; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RANKING; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84874961494     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00309.1     Document Type: Article

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