Sensitivity of tropical cyclone inner-core size and intensity to the radial distribution of surface entropy flux

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1831-1852

  Xu, Jing ^a   Wang, Yuqing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Entropy; Feedback; Latent heating cooling; Tropical cyclones; Wind

Indexed keywords

AXISYMMETRIC MODELS; CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; CORE SIZE; ENTROPY FLUX; EYEWALL; INNER CORE; INTENSITY CHANGE; LATENT HEAT RELEASE; LATENT HEATING/COOLING; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; RADIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; RAINBANDS; SIMULATED STORMS; STORM INTENSITY; SURFACE ENERGIES; SURFACE ENTROPIES; TC MODEL; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EXPERIMENTS; FEEDBACK; HURRICANES; STORMS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TROPICS;

ENTROPY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTION; COOLING; ENTROPY; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; LATENT HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PREDICTION; RAINBAND; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTICITY; WIND FIELD;

EID: 77955522770     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3387.1     Document Type: Article

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