The multiple-vortex nature of tropical cyclogenesis

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1796-1814

  Sippel, Jason A ^a   Nielsen Gammon, John W ^a   Allen, Stephen E ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA National Weather Service Houston Galveston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; STORMS; VORTEX FLOW;

CONVECTIVE BURST VORTICES; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PRESSURE GRADIENTS; TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CYCLOGENESIS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SIMULATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTICITY;

EID: 33746877852     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3165.1     Document Type: Article

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