Australian tropical cyclones Kerry and Rosa, February-March 1979

Details

• Personal Author:
  Sheets, Robert C. ; Holland, Greg
• Corporate Authors:
  Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
• NOAA Program & Office:
  OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
• Description:
  The first known flights by highly instrumented research aircraft into southern hemisphere tropical cyclones were made into Australian Tropical Cyclones Kerry and Rosa of 1979 . Three flights were made into Kerry and one into Rosa with one of NOAA’s P-3 research aircraft. Data collected during these unique flights are presented along with a brief discussion of the major features of the structures of these storms as revealed by these data sets. In addition, brief summaries of the life cycles of these storms are given and the general synoptic-scale features influencing their behavior are outlined.
• Series:
  NOAA technical memorandum ERL AOML ; 46
• Document Type:
  Technical Memorandum
• Place as Subject:
  Australia
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Library
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/32579/noaa_32579_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 276.93 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:67c6de8daf42b4e05da5a7b0e00a3703d2725efea1406fa3f3907a90d5199c27