: Western Pacific: Studies of Man and Environment in the Western Pacific .
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Western Pacific Tropical Cyclogenesis Precursors
The basic ingredients for tropical cyclogenesis have been well established: a sufficiently deep warm ocean layer, low-level cyclonic vorticity, weak vertical wind shear, and deep moist convection (e. et al. 2008) have attributed cyclogenesis to a variety of low-level precursor systems that enhance one or more of these ingredients. These studies have traditionally focused on features such as the...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Anthropologist
سال: 1959
ISSN: 0002-7294,1548-1433
DOI: 10.1525/aa.1959.61.5.02a00340