Numerical study of a typhoon with a large eye: Model simulation and verification

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 725-742

  Zhang, Qing Hong ^a,b   Chen, Shou Jun ^b   Kuo, Ying Hwa ^a   Lau, Kai Hon ^c   Anthes, Richard A ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; HURRICANE EFFECTS; IMAGE PROCESSING; KINETIC ENERGY; MICROWAVES; RADAR; SATELLITES; WIND;

CLOUD BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE IMAGES; RING OF HIGH CONVERGENCE (RHC); RING OF HIGH VORTICITY (RHV); TYPHOON WINNIE;

STORMS;

NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR; TYPHOON;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); WORLD;

EID: 18544368508     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR2867.1     Document Type: Article

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