Remote impact of North Atlantic hurricanes on the Mediterranean during episodes of intense rainfall in autumn 2012

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 141, Issue 688, 2015, Pages 967-978

  Pantillon, Florian ^a,b   Chaboureau, Jean Pierre ^a   Richard, Evelyne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Downstream development; Filtering; HyMeX; Meso NH; Rossby wave breaking; Tropical cyclone

Indexed keywords

FILTRATION; HURRICANES; LIQUID WAVES; MECHANICAL WAVES; RAIN; TROPICS;

DOWNSTREAM DEVELOPMENT; HYMEX; MESO-NH; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

HURRICANE; JET FLOW; RAINFALL; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84928255026     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2419     Document Type: Article

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