A major differing characteristic of the two is how they gather their energy. A subtropical storm will gain strength from the clash between cold and warm air masses as well as baroclinic processes.
and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, now retired.Interests in literature, music (clarinet) and speaks Italian. Currently working on theories of baroclinic instability and the role of chaos in ...
The course deals with the fluid dynamics of large scale motion on Earth, with application to the atmosphere and ocean. Motion at such scales, including storms, the Jet Stream and Gulf Stream, is ...
Climate variability and change. Expertise inlcludes tropical climate dynamics, interactions between tropics and extratropics, global hydrological cycle and numerical modeling of El Nino-Southern ...
Y. Dong, L.M. Polvani, Y.-T. Hwang and M.R. England: Stratospheric ozone depletion has contributed to the recent tropical La Niña-like warming pattern Z. McGraw, L.M ...