The influence of tropical cyclone size on its intensification

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 582-590

  Carrasco, Cristina Alexandra ^a   Landsea, Christopher William ^b   Lin, Yuh Lang ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STORMS;

INTENSITY FORECASTS; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; NORTH ATLANTIC; RAPID INTENSIFICATION; SCATTER PLOTS; SECOND GENERATION; SURFACE WIND SPEED; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

HURRICANES;

HURRICANE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84902185295     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-13-00092.1     Document Type: Article

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