Convective asymmetries associated with tropical cyclone landfall. Part I: f-plane simulations

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 1560-1576

  Chan, Johnny C L ^a   Liang, Xudong ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; MOISTURE; RAIN; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

TROPICAL CYCLONES (TC);

STORMS;

CONVECTION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 0041845385     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2003)60<1560:CAAWTC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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