Balanced boundary layers used in hurricane models

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 635, 2008, Pages 1385-1395

  Smith, Roger K ^a   Montgomery, Michael T ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Friction layer; Gradient wind balance; Tropical cyclone; Typhoon

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

ADVECTION TERMS; APPROXIMATE SOLUTIONS; AXISYMMETRIC; FRICTION LAYER; GRADIENT WIND BALANCE; HURRICANE DYNAMICS; INNER CORES; LAYER MODELS; MODEL SOLUTIONS; PRIOR WORKS; RADIAL DIRECTIONS; RADIAL MOMENTUMS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; FRICTION; HURRICANE; STEADY FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WIND DIRECTION;

EID: 57349127925     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.296     Document Type: Article

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