Tropical cyclone energy dispersion in a three-dimensional primitive equation model: Upper-tropospheric influence

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2272-2289

  Ge, Xuyang ^a   Li, Tim ^a   Wang, Yuqing ^a   Peng, Melinda S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); LOCOMOTIVES; OCEAN CURRENTS; RAILROAD CARS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TROPOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

ANTI CYCLONIC CIRCULATIONS; BAROCLINIC; BAROTROPIC; BETA EFFECTS; DIABATIC HEATING; DOPPLER SHIFTING; ENERGY DISPERSIONS; ENERGY PROPAGATION; GROUP VELOCITIES; KEY FEATURE; NUMERICA L RESULTS; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; RELATIVE VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVES; SYMMETRIC VORTICES; SYNOPTIC-SCALE WAVE; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D); TROPICAL CYCLONE; WAVE TRAINS;

WIND POWER;

ANTICYCLONE; KINETIC ENERGY; MODELING; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY;

EID: 52049087610     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2431.1     Document Type: Article

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