Environmental flow impacts on tropical cyclone structure diagnosed from airborne doppler radar composites

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2949-2969

  Reasor, Paul D ^a   Rogers, Robert ^a   Lorsolo, Sylvie ^b  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE DOPPLER RADAR; ASYMMETRIC STRUCTURES; CONVECTIVE INITIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRECIPITATION DATA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR;

HURRICANES; KINEMATICS; RADAR MEASUREMENT;

DOPPLER RADAR;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; DOPPLER RADAR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 84883778432     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00334.1     Document Type: Article

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