The boundary layer winds in Hurricanes Danielle (1998) and Isabel (2003)

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3168-3192

  Schwendike, Juliane ^a,b,c   Kepert, Jeffrey D ^d  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^d BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DRAG REDUCTION; FLOW SIMULATION; HURRICANES; HYDRODYNAMICS; METEOROLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WIND;

BOUNDARY LAYER DEPTH; BOUNDARY LAYER MODELS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HURRICANE BOUNDARY LAYERS; HURRICANE ISABEL; POSITIONING SYSTEMS; SURFACE WIND SPEED; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURING; WIND STRUCTURE;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

BOUNDARY LAYER; FLOW MODELING; GPS; HURRICANE EVENT; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 53249121899     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2296.1     Document Type: Article

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