18 Dec 2001 Australian monsoon, westerly wind burst, tropical low in Coral sea
15 January 2002: Kelvin Wave on the Pacific Thermocline?
16 January 2002: What maintains the equatorial upper level easterlies?
28 February 2002: Another
equatorially trapped n=1 Rossby wave, the monsoon low over WA, the monsoon,
changes in
cool changes
1 March 2002: Northwest pacific Tropical Cyclone
19 March 2002: Tropical
Storm 03W about to form
(Interpretation of scatterometer data)
5 April 2002 Large TC in Western North Pacific
8 April 2002: Mass of convection north of the Gulf -- Development of Tropical Cyclone Bonnie
10 April 2002: Development of TC Bonnie (From mass of convection discussed on 8 April)
11 April 2002: Development of TC Bonnie
14 April 2002: n = 1 Rossby waves and TC formation
15 April 2002: Development
of TC Dianne
(Web sites for tracks of recent Tropical Cyclones)
7 May 2002: Twin vortices/cyclone pairs (response to posting immediately above)
9 May 2002: Current MJO and two sets of twin vortices in the Indian Ocean.
10 May 2002: Imagination running wild? -- another (third set of twin vortices?)
14 May 2002: Monsoon Depression in western North Pacific
9 June 2002: Another n = 1 Rossby Wave in the indian Ocean
8 July 2002: Development of Rammasun and Chatann triggered by MJO and westerly wind event.
9 July
2002: Recap on the developments of Rammasun
and Chatann