A three-dimensional Lagrangian hurricane eyewall computation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 653, 2010, Pages 1931-1944

  Rutherford, Blake ^a   Dangelmayr, Gerhard ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT STRUCTURE; EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; EYEWALL; FAST CONVERGENCE; LAGRANGIAN; LAGRANGIAN COHERENT STRUCTURES; LAGRANGIAN STRUCTURES; REAL TIME SIMULATIONS; RIDGE CURVES; SURROUNDING REGIONS; TIME DEPENDENT VELOCITY; Z LEVEL;

HURRICANES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HURRICANE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 78650048056     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.703     Document Type: Article

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