Impact of a warm ocean Eddy's circulation on hurricane-induced sea surface cooling with implications for hurricane intensity

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 997-1021

  Yablonsky, Richard M ^a   Ginis, Isaac ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Coupled models; Eddies; Hurricanes typhoons; Ocean models; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; COUPLED MODELS; EDDIES; HURRICANES/TYPHOONS; OCEAN MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COOLING; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; WIND STRESS;

HURRICANES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; EDDY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HURRICANE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TYPHOON; WIND STRESS;

EID: 84875660891     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00248.1     Document Type: Article

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