Mechanisms for the generation of mesoscale vorticity features in tropical cyclone rainbands

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2649-2669

  Franklin, Charmaine N ^a,c   Holland, Greg J ^b   May, Peter T ^c  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Aerosonde Robotic Aircraft   (Australia)

^c BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FLUID DYNAMICS; JETS; VORTEX FLOW;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; MESOSCALE VORTICITY; TROPICAL CYCLONE RAINBANDS;

STORMS;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; JET; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; RAINBAND; ROSSBY WAVE; STRATIFORM CLOUD; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 33750443945     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3222.1     Document Type: Article

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