The algebraic growth of wavenumber one disturbances in Hurricane-like vortices

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 21, 2000, Pages 3514-3538

  Nolan, D S ^a   Montgomery, M T ^a  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; HURRICANES; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; LINEARIZATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

BAROTROPIC SHEAR FLOWS; EXPONENTIAL GROWTH; ROSSBY WAVES; VORTICITY DYNAMICS; WAVENUMBER ONE DISTURBANCES;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

CYCLONE; VORTICITY;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; BAROTROPIC INSTABILITY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTICITY;

EID: 0034319003     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2000)057<3514:TAGOWO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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