Interactions between simulated tropical cyclones and an environment with a variable coriolis parameter

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1889-1905

  Ritchie, Elizabeth A ^a,c   Frank, William M ^b  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORIOLIS FORCE; HURRICANES; RAIN; WIND EFFECTS;

CORIOLIS PARAMETER; CYCLONE INTENSITY; WIND SHEAR;

STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CORIOLIS FORCE; MESOSCALE MOTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTICITY; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 34249656764     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3359.1     Document Type: Article

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