A piecewise potential vorticity inversion algorithm and its application to hurricane inner-core anomalies

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2616-2631

  Kieu, Chanh Q ^a   Zhang, Da Lin ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Hurricanes; Numerical analysis modeling; Potential vorticity

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONIC FLOW; ARBITRARY NUMBER; AXISYMMETRIC; DEEP CONVECTION; DIABATIC HEATING; ENERGY SUPPLIES; EYEWALL; HURRICANE INTENSITY; INVERSION LAYER; INVERSION SCHEME; LOWER PRESSURES; MINIMUM PRESSURE; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING; PIECEWISE POTENTIAL VORTICITY INVERSIONS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; RAINBANDS; SECONDARY CIRCULATION; VORTEX INTENSITY;

ALGORITHMS; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY;

HURRICANES;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; HURRICANE; INVERSE PROBLEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY;

EID: 77958581328     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3421.1     Document Type: Article

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