Direct and indirect impacts of Saharan dust acting as cloud condensation nuclei on tropical cyclone eyewall development

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Zhang, Henian ^a,b   McFarquhar, Greg M ^a   Cotton, William R ^c   Deng, Yi ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI; CLOUD DROPLETS; COLD POOL; EYEWALL; LATENT HEAT RELEASE; LATERAL BOUNDARY; MICROPHYSICAL PROCESS; NON-LINEAR; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RAINBANDS; SAHARAN DUST; STORM DYNAMICS; SURFACE INFLOWS; TIME LAG; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

DUST; HEATING; LATENT HEAT; STORMS;

CONDENSATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CLOUD DROPLET; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DUST; INFLOW; LATENT HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINBAND; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 66949131765     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037276     Document Type: Article

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