Tropical-cyclone intensification and predictability in a minimal three-dimensional model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 636, 2008, Pages 1661-1671

  Shin, Seoleun ^a   Smith, Roger K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hurricane; Minimal model; Predictability; Tropical cyclone; Typhoon

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; MOISTURE; STORMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TROPICS;

ASYMMETRIC STRUCTURES; AXISYMMETRIC; CONVECTIVE VORTICES; HIGHLY SENSITIVES; INITIAL TIMES; MINIMAL MODEL; MOISTURE FIELDS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OUTFLOW CHANNELS; PREDICTABILITY; QUIESCENT ENVIRONMENTS; SMALL PERTURBATIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONES; TROPICAL STORMS; TYPHOON;

VORTEX FLOW;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; HURRICANE; MOISTURE CONTENT; OUTFLOW; SHEAR FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON; VORTEX;

EID: 57349113275     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.327     Document Type: Article

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