Estimation and mapping of hurricane turbulent energy using airborne doppler measurements

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3656-3670

  Lorsolo, Sylvie ^a   Zhang, Jun A ^a   Marks Jr , Frank ^b   Gamache, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM RESOLUTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; DOPPLER MEASUREMENT; EYEWALL; HORIZONTAL SHEAR; HORIZONTAL WINDS; HURRICANE BOUNDARY LAYERS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; RADAR ANALYSIS; RADIAL WINDS; RETRIEVAL METHODS; STRONG TURBULENCE; TURBULENT ENERGIES; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; TURBULENT PROCESS; VERTICAL PROFILE; VERTICAL SHEAR; WIND COMPONENTS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DOPPLER EFFECT; HURRICANES; KINETIC ENERGY; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; STORMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AIRBORNE SENSING; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DOPPLER RADAR; ENERGY FLUX; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOMETRY; HURRICANE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; KINETIC ENERGY; MAPPING; NOAA SATELLITE; SHEAR FLOW; STORM TRACK; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 77958484645     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3183.1     Document Type: Article

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