Life cycles of hurricane-like vorticity rings

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 705-722

  Hendricks, Eric A ^a,d   Schubert, Wayne H ^a   Taft, Richard K ^a   Wang, Huiqun ^b   Kossin, James P ^c  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTHAL MODES; BAROTROPIC; BAROTROPIC MODELS; EXPONENTIAL MODES; EYEWALL; INNER CORE; LINEAR STABILITY THEORY; LINEAR THEORY; MODERATELY THICK; NON-LINEAR MODEL; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; RELATIVE VORTICITY; TANGENTIAL VELOCITIES; VORTICITY ADVECTION; WAVE NUMBERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; HURRICANES; MIXING; VORTICITY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BAROTROPIC INSTABILITY; BAROTROPIC MOTION; HURRICANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; VORTICITY;

EID: 69849114317     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2820.1     Document Type: Article

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