Recurving western North Pacific tropical cyclones and midlatitude predictability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 7799-7807

  Aiyyer, A ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

downstream development; extratropical transition; predictability; recurving; spread; tropical cyclone

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; HURRICANES; TROPICS; WAVE PACKETS;

DOWNSTREAM DEVELOPMENT; EXTRATROPICAL TRANSITION; PREDICTABILITY; RECURVING; SPREAD; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

STORMS;

BASELINE CONDITIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; CURVATURE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84945217288     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065082     Document Type: Article

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