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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2009-08-01
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Series: | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics |
Online Access: | http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/9/5587/2009/acp-9-5587-2009.pdf |