Tropical cyclogenesis in a tropical wave critical layer: easterly waves

The development of tropical depressions within tropical waves over the Atlantic and eastern Pacific is usually preceded by a "surface low along the wave" as if to suggest a hybrid wave-vortex structure in which flow streamlines not only undulate with the waves, but form a closed ci...

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Main Authors: T. J. Dunkerton, M. T. Montgomery, Z. Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2009-08-01
Series:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Online Access:http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/9/5587/2009/acp-9-5587-2009.pdf