Buoyancy in tropical cyclones and other rapidly rotating atmospheric vortices

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 40, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 189-208

  Smith, Roger K ^a   Montgomery, Michael T ^b   Zhu, Hongyan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Buoyancy force; Tropical cyclones; Vortices

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BUOYANCY; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VECTORS; VORTEX FLOW;

AXISYMMETRIC MOTIONS; ROTATING VORTEX; SURFACE PRESSURE; TROPICAL CYCLONES;

STORMS;

ROTATING FLOW; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTICITY;

ALIA;

EID: 20444460307     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2005.03.003     Document Type: Article

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