The effect of latent cooling processes in tropical cyclone simulations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 644, 2009, Pages 1732-1749

  Frisius, Thomas ^a   Hasselbeck, Thomas ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axisymmetric and non axisymmetric tropical cyclogenesis; CAPE; Cloud resolving models

Indexed keywords

AXISYMMETRIC; AXISYMMETRIC AND NON-AXISYMMETRIC TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS; AXISYMMETRIC DISTURBANCES; CAPE; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CLOUD-RESOLVING MODELS; CONVECTIVE INHIBITION; COSMO MODEL; CYCLOGENESIS; EYEWALL; INITIAL STATE; INTENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; LATENT COOLING; MAXIMUM WIND SPEED; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SENSITIVITY SIMULATION; THRESHOLD AMPLITUDE; TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL MIXING; WEATHER SERVICES;

COOLING; HURRICANES; STORMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TROPICS;

SIMULATORS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; MIXING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTEX FLOW; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 70350624556     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.495     Document Type: Article

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