On the impact of tropical cyclones on Rossby wave packets: A climatological perspective

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2021-2048

  Quinting, Julian F ^a,b   Jones, Sarah C ^c  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; HURRICANES; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; WAVE PACKETS;

CLIMATOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; DYNAMICAL MECHANISMS; EASTWARD PROPAGATION; FORECAST UNCERTAINTY; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SYNERGISTIC INTERACTION; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

MECHANICAL WAVES;

CLIMATOLOGY; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; JET STREAM; KINETIC ENERGY; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84966340006     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00298.1     Document Type: Article

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