Inertial particle dynamics in a hurricane

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2481-2492

  Sapsis, Themestoklis ^a   Haller, George ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIORS; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; EULERIAN; EULERIAN FIELD; EYEWALL; FINITE-SIZE PARTICLES; HURRICANE ISABEL; INERTIAL PARTICLES; LAGRANGIAN; LAGRANGIAN COHERENT STRUCTURES; LONG TERM DYNAMICS; PARTICLE MOTIONS; PASSIVE FLUID; PHASE SPACES; REDUCED ORDER; SLOW MANIFOLDS; SMALL PERTURBATIONS; UNSTEADY SIMULATIONS;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

HURRICANES;

ADVECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; HURRICANE ISABEL 2003; INERTIA; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PARTICLE MOTION; PERTURBATION; RAINBAND; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 70349277310     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS2865.1     Document Type: Article

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