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Tropical Storm Dorian as a tropical wave just north of Puerto Rico on July 29, 2013.. A tropical wave (also called easterly wave, tropical easterly wave, and African easterly wave), in and around the Atlantic Ocean, is a type of atmospheric trough, an elongated area of relatively low air pressure, oriented north to south, which moves from east to west across the tropics, causing areas of ...
The tropical waves the Hurricane Center highlighted on its tropical outlook map are located: In the Caribbean Sea. In the central Atlantic. In the eastern Atlantic.
The National Hurricane Center is tracking three tropical waves in the Atlantic that may impact the U.S. coastline. Two of the waves being tracked have a 40% chance of developing into tropical ...
Tropical wave 3: A tropical wave is in the central Caribbean Sea southward to Panama is moving west. Scattered moderate to locally strong convection is noted off the coast of Panama and Costa Rica.
The tropical wave is currently located in the south-central Atlantic Ocean between the Cabo Verde Islands off the coast of Africa and the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, according to the ...
The jet exhibits both barotropic and baroclinic instability, which produces synoptic scale, westward-propagating disturbances in the jet known as African easterly waves or tropical waves. These instabilities, particularly in the presence of moist-convection, cause intense lower-layer cyclonic vortices at the northern flank of the jet.
Tropical instability waves, often abbreviated TIW, are a phenomenon in which the interface between areas of warm and cold sea surface temperatures near the equator form a regular pattern of westward-propagating waves. These waves are often present in the Atlantic Ocean, extending westward from the African coast, but are more easily recognizable ...
The National Hurricane Center is tracking three tropical waves in the Atlantic Ocean that could become tropical depressions later this week.. The NHC said in an advisory early Tuesday morning that ...