Sensitivity of tropical-cyclone models to the surface drag coefficient

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 653, 2010, Pages 1945-1953

  Montgomery, Michael T ^a,b   Smith, Roger K ^c   Nguyen, Sang V ^c  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frictional drag; Hurricane; Surface exchange; Typhoon

Indexed keywords

AIR FLUX; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; AXISYMMETRIC; AXISYMMETRIC MODELS; BALANCE MODEL; CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; CRITICAL THRESHOLD VALUE; CYCLONE MODELS; FRICTIONAL DRAG; HIGH WIND SPEED; HURRICANE INTENSITY; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OCEAN WAVES; SURFACE EXCHANGE; TROPICAL DEPRESSIONS; TYPHOON;

DRAG COEFFICIENT; FRICTION; HURRICANES; STORMS; TROPICS; VORTEX FLOW; WATER WAVES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DRAG;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; DRAG COEFFICIENT; HURRICANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE FLUX; THRESHOLD; TYPHOON; VORTICITY; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 77958543264     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.702     Document Type: Article

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