Transport and mixing in idealized barotropic hurricane-like vortices

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 643, 2009, Pages 1456-1470

  Hendricks, E A ^a   Schubert, W H ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrier; Effective diffusivity; Hurricane; Mixing; Rossby wave breaking

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; AXISYMMETRIZATION; BAROTROPIC; BAROTROPIC MODELS; BARRIER; DIVERGENT FLOW; DYNAMICAL PROCESS; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITIES; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITY; ELLIPTICAL VORTEX; EYEWALL; FLOW CONFIGURATIONS; HURRICANE DYNAMICS; HURRICANE-LIKE VORTICES; INNER CORE; INTERNAL MIXING; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; MIXING PROPERTY; PASSIVE TRACERS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; RANKINE VORTICES; ROBUST DIAGNOSTICS; ROSSBY WAVE; ROSSBY-WAVE BREAKING; SURF ZONES; TROPICAL STORMS; TURBULENT MIXING; TWO DIMENSIONAL TURBULENCE; TWO-REGIME; VORTEX CORES; VORTICAL FLOWS; VORTICITY FIELD; WAVEBREAKING;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DIFFUSION; HURRICANES; MIXERS (MACHINERY); OCEAN CURRENTS; STORMS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY;

MIXING;

BAROTROPIC INSTABILITY; HURRICANE; JET STREAM; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; ROSSBY WAVE; STORM; TRACER; TURBULENT MIXING; VORTICITY; WAVE BREAKING;

EID: 70349584965     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.467     Document Type: Article

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