An ocean coupling potential intensity index for tropical cyclones

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1878-1882

  Lin, I I ^a,b   Black, P ^c   Price, J F ^d   Yang, C Y ^a   Chen, S S ^e   Lien, C C ^a,b   Harr, P ^f   Chi, N H ^g   Wu, C C ^a   D'Asaro, E A ^g  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES   (Taiwan)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^f NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

ocean cooling; potential intensity index; tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; ESTIMATION AND PREDICTIONS; POTENTIAL INTENSITY INDEX; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SUBSURFACE INFORMATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COOLING; FORECASTING; HURRICANES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; COOLING; DATA SET; PREDICTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; UPPER OCEAN;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84879106848     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50091     Document Type: Article

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