A minimal axisymmetric hurricane model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 128, Issue 586 PART B, 2002, Pages 2641-2661

  Chi Mai, Nguyen ^a   Smith, Roger K ^b   Zhu, Hongyan ^b   Ulrich, Wolfgang ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barotropic instability; Inertial instability; Supergradient winds; Typhoon model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; STORMS; VORTEX FLOW; WIND;

AXISYMMETRICS;

HURRICANE EFFECTS;

BAROTROPIC INSTABILITY; HURRICANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SYMMETRY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON;

EID: 0036821182     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.01.156     Document Type: Article

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