Importance of moist ambient and its helical enhancement effect to storm intensity

Journal of Hydrodynamics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 743-755

  Al Falahi, Fadha Sh ^a   Wang, Yuan ^a   Tang, Jie ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Helical Enhancement; Intensity of storm; Moist ambient

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MOISTURE; STABILITY; TURBULENCE;

HELICAL ENHANCEMENT; MOIST AMBIENT; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; STORM INTENSITY;

STORMS;

EID: 14344255559     PISSN: 10016058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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