Large-scale influences on the evolution of winter subtropical maritime cyclones affecting Australia's east coast

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2416-2431

  Browning, Stuart A ^a   Goodwin, Ian D ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SYNOPTIC COMPOSITES; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COASTAL ZONES; TROPICS;

STORMS;

CLIMATOLOGY; CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WIND FIELD; WINTER;

AUSTRALIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EAST); INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); TASMAN SEA;

EID: 84880711022     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00312.1     Document Type: Article

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