Intensification of Hurricane Sandy (2012) through extratropical warm core seclusion

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4296-4321

  Galarneau Jr , Thomas J ^a   Davis, Christopher A ^a   Shapiro, Melvyn A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY;

CYCLONIC VORTICITY; DYNAMICAL PROCESS; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL SIMULATION; HORIZONTAL VORTICITY; SECONDARY CIRCULATION; UNDERLYING DYNAMICS; UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH; VERTICAL VORTICITY;

HURRICANES;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; FRONTOGENESIS; HURRICANE SANDY 2012; NUMERICAL METHOD; STORM SURGE; VORTICITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM; NEW JERSEY; RHODE ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896924566     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00181.1     Document Type: Article

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