On the dynamics of hurricane-like vortices in vertical-shear flows

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 126, Issue 569, 2000, Pages 2653-2670

  Smith, Roger K ^a   Ulrich, Wolfgang ^a   Sneddon, Graeme ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hurricanes; Tropical cyclones; Two layer shear flow; Vortex dynamics

Indexed keywords

HURRICANE; SHEAR FLOW; VORTICITY;

ANALOG MODEL; HURRICANE; SHEAR FLOW; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTICITY;

EID: 0033757021     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.49712656903     Document Type: Article

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