Sheared deep vortical convection in pre-depression Hagupit during TCS08

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Bell, Michael M ^a,b   Montgomery, Michael T ^a,c  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE DOPPLER RADAR; FIELD CAMPAIGN; NORTH LATITUDES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; SHEARING FLOW; SPIN-UP; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DOPPLER RADAR; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STORMS; VORTICITY;

HURRICANES;

AIRBORNE SENSING; CONVECTION; DOPPLER RADAR; TROPICAL CYCLONE; UPDRAFT; VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 77949800241     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL042313     Document Type: Article

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