A multi-scale analysis of tropical cyclogenesis within the critical layer of tropical easterly waves in the Atlantic and western North Pacific sectors

A newly proposed tropical cyclogenesis sequence that describes the transition of a tropical wave's critical layer to a tropical cyclone is used to examine two formation cases in the western North Pacific basin. Typhoon Nuri (2008), formed from a precursor easterly wave during the Tropical Cycl...

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Main Author: Lussier, Louis L.
Other Authors: Montgomery, Michael
Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/10565