A high-resolution simulation of asymmetries in severe southern hemisphere tropical cyclone larry (2006)

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4171-4187

  Ramsay, Hamish A ^a,b   Leslie, Lance M ^a   Kepert, Jeffrey D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER MODELS; COMMON FEATURES; CORE REGION; DEEP CONVECTION; DIRECTION OF MOTION; EYEWALL; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; MESOSCALE MODEL; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY; RAINFALL ASYMMETRY; RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TANGENTIAL WIND; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL MOTIONS; VERTICAL SHEAR;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; FRICTION; HURRICANES; RAIN; STORMS; TROPICS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ADVECTION; ASYMMETRY; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; RAINFALL; SIMULATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPICAL CYCLONE EVENT; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 74949139317     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2744.1     Document Type: Article

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