Vortical swirls in hurricane eye clouds

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 130, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 3144-3149

  Kossin, James P ^a   McNoldy, Brian D ^b   Schubert, Wayne H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SWIRLING FLOW; TURBULENCE;

HURRICANE EYE CLOUDS;

HURRICANES;

HURRICANE; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 0036965534     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130<3144:VSIHEC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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