Hurricane intensity in the Ooyama (1969) paradigm

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 652, 2010, Pages 1920-1926

  Schecter, David A ^a  

^a NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

Simple models; Steady state maintenance; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROXIMATION; HURRICANE INTENSITY; MAXIMUM WIND SPEED; MOMENTUM EXCHANGE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARAMETER SPACES; SEA SURFACES; SIMPLE MODELS; STATE MAINTENANCES; THREE-LAYER; THREE-LAYER MODELS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MAINTENANCE; STORMS;

HURRICANES;

ESTIMATION METHOD; HURRICANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE; SIMULATION; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOSPHERE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 77958591186     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.657     Document Type: Article

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