Analysis of the thermodynamic properties of developing and nondeveloping tropical disturbances using a comprehensive dropsonde dataset

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1250-1264

  Zawislak, Jonathan ^a   Zipser, Edward J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; INTENSITY FORECASTS; RAPID INTENSIFICATION; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; THERMODYNAMIC CONDITIONS; TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS; TROPICAL DISTURBANCES; WARM TEMPERATURES;

EXPERIMENTS; NASA;

TROPICS;

CYCLOGENESIS; DATA SET; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84896761515     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00253.1     Document Type: Article

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