What percentage of western north pacific tropical cyclones form within the monsoon trough?

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 499-505

  Molinari, John ^a   Vollaro, David ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

ENSO; Large scale motions; Monsoons; Synoptic climatology; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ENSO; LARGE-SCALE MOTIONS; MONSOONS; SYNOPTIC CLIMATOLOGY; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

CLIMATOLOGY; HURRICANES; STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ASYMMETRY; CLIMATOLOGY; EASTERLY WAVE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EQUATORIAL WAVE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY; WAVE BREAKING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84874999694     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00165.1     Document Type: Article

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