The role of equatorial Rossby waves in tropical cyclogenesis. Part I: Idealized numerical simulations in an initially quiescent background environment

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1368-1382

  Gall, Jeffrey S ^a   Frank, William M ^a   Wheeler, Matthew C ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Cyclogenesis cyclolysis; Rossby waves; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND ENVIRONMENT; CYCLONIC GYRE; CYCLONIC VORTICITY; DIABATIC; ENHANCED CONVECTION; EQUATORIAL ROSSBY WAVES; FAVORABLE CONDITIONS; FREQUENCY FILTERING; INITIAL PERTURBATION; LARGE-SCALE FLOWS; LINEAR THEORY; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHASE SPEED; REGION FEATURE; ROSSBY WAVE; THEORETICAL STRUCTURE; TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL DISTURBANCES; TWO-PART SERIES; VERTICAL SHEAR; WAVE AMPLITUDES; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVE SIMULATIONS;

ADVECTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HURRICANES; OCEAN CURRENTS; SPEED; STORMS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLOGENESIS; EQUATORIAL WAVE; GYRE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 77955521842     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR3114.1     Document Type: Article

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