Observed hurricane wind speed asymmetries and relationships to motion and environmental shear

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1290-1311

  Uhlhorn, Eric W ^a   Klotz, Bradley W ^b   Vukicevic, Tomislava ^a   Reasor, Paul D ^a   Rogers, Robert F ^a  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; ASYMMETRIC STRUCTURES; GENERAL PATTERNS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SHEAR DIRECTION; SHEAR MAGNITUDE; TRANSLATION SPEED; WESTERN PACIFIC;

STORMS; WIND EFFECTS;

HURRICANES;

ASYMMETRY; HURRICANE; STORM; TYPHOON; WIND VELOCITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84896797669     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00249.1     Document Type: Article

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