Limitations of a linear model for the hurricane boundary layer

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 641, 2009, Pages 839-850

  Vogl, Stefanie ^a   Smith, Roger K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Friction layer; Hurricanes; Tropical cyclones; Typhoons

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC SOLUTION; AXIAL SYMMETRY; AXISYMMETRIC; AXISYMMETRIC VORTEX; FRICTION LAYER; HURRICANE BOUNDARY LAYERS; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LARGE REGIONS; LINEAR APPROXIMATIONS; LINEAR MODEL; LINEAR PROBLEMS; NONLINEAR TERMS; RADIAL PRESSURE; SCALE ANALYSIS; TANGENTIAL WIND; TROPICAL CYCLONES; TYPHOONS; VERTICAL FLOWS; WIND COMPONENTS;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FRICTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; STATISTICS; STORMS; VORTEX FLOW;

HURRICANES;

BOUNDARY LAYER; HURRICANE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON; VORTEX FLOW; WIND PROFILE;

EID: 70149090130     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.390     Document Type: Article

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