Simulation and interpretation of the genesis of tropical storm gert (2005) as part of the NASA tropical cloud systems and processes experiment

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 999-1025

  Braun, Scott A ^a   Montgomery, Michael T ^b,c   Mallen, Kevin J ^d   Reasor, Paul D ^e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^c ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^e FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; CONVECTIVE VORTICES; CYCLONIC CIRCULATION; CYCLONIC VORTICITY; GULF OF MEXICO; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; HOT TOWERS; LOW LEVEL; MESOSCALE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PRECIPITATION SYSTEMS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA-LEVEL PRESSURE FIELDS; SPIN-UP; STRATIFORM PRECIPITATION; SURFACE CIRCULATION; TROPICAL CLOUDS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL STORMS; UPWARD MOTION; VERTICAL MOTIONS;

EXPERIMENTS; NASA; SEA LEVEL; STORMS; TROPICS;

VORTICITY;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NSCAT; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SIMULATION; STORM; STRATIFORM CLOUD; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 77953345361     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3140.1     Document Type: Article

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