Numerical simulations of the formation of Hurricane Gabrielle (2001)

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3151-3167

  Musgrave, Kate D ^a   Davis, C A ^b   Montgomery, M T ^c  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TROPICS; UREA; VORTEX FLOW;

FLORIDA; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MESOSCALE MODEL; MODEL OUTPUTS; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY; SENSITIVITY EXPERIMENT; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR;

EXPERIMENTS;

HURRICANE EVENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND SHEAR;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 53249105733     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2110.1     Document Type: Article

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