Predictability of a mediterranean tropical-like storm downstream of the extratropical transition of Hurricane Helene (2006)

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1943-1962

  Pantillon, Florian P ^a   Chaboureau Pierre, Jean ^a   Mascart, Patrick J ^a   Lac, Christine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Mediterranean Sea; Mesoscale forecasting; Rossby waves; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MESOSCALE FORECASTING; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HURRICANES;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HURRICANE EVENT; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PREDICTION; ROSSBY WAVE; STORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84880154703     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00164.1     Document Type: Article

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