Observational analysis and numerical evaluation of the effects of vertical wind shear on the rainfall asymmetry in the typhoon inner-core region

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 115-136

  Ueno, Mitsuru ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RAINSTORM; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON; WIND SHEAR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 34447251004     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.85.115     Document Type: Article

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