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21 Dec 2015
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| 21 Dec 2015
Impact of environmental moisture on tropical cyclone intensification
L. Wu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
H. Su
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
R. G. Fovell
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
T. J. Dunkerton
Northwest Research Associates, Inc., Bellevue, Washington, USA
Z. Wang
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
B. H. Kahn
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
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