Modeling the effects of land-sea roughness contrast on tropical cyclone winds

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3249-3264

  Wong, Martin L M ^a   Chan, Johnny C L ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; SEA LEVEL; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TROPICS;

LAND-SEA ROUGHNESS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; TROPICAL CYCLONE WINDS; WIND DISTRIBUTION;

WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; SEA LEVEL; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TROPICS; WIND;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE WIND; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 34948836811     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS4027.1     Document Type: Article

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