Influence of moist physics and norms on singular vectors for a tropical cyclone

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 525-543

  Kim, Hyun Mee ^a   Jung, Byoung Joo ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT MODELS; ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; ENERGY STRUCTURES; LANCZOS ALGORITHM; LARGE-SCALE PRECIPITATION; LINEAR INTEGRATION; LOWER BOUNDARY; MESOSCALE MODEL; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY; ROTATIONAL COMPONENT; SINGULAR VECTORS; TOTAL ENERGY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON CENTER; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; VORTICITY DISTRIBUTION; WIND FIELD;

CLIMATOLOGY; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; HURRICANES; MOISTURE; RAIN; SCALE (DEPOSITS);

EXPERIMENTS;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; KINETIC ENERGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON; VECTOR; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; VORTICITY; WIND FIELD;

EID: 68249142995     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2739.1     Document Type: Article

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