Tropical cyclone spin-up revisited

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 642, 2009, Pages 1321-1335

  Smith, Roger K ^a   Montgomery, Michael T ^b,c   van Sang, Nguyen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Hurricane; Typhoon; Vortex intensification

Indexed keywords

AXISYMMETRIC; CORE CHANGES; CORE REGION; INNER CORE; MEAN INTENSITY; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SPIN-UP; TANGENTIAL FLOW; TANGENTIAL WIND; THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON; VORTEX INTENSIFICATION; VORTEX SIZE; WIND SPEED;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; HURRICANE EFFECTS; SPIN DYNAMICS; STORMS; VORTEX FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BOUNDARY LAYER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HURRICANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 70149100398     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.428     Document Type: Article

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