Multiscale interactions in the life cycle of a tropical cyclone simulated in a global cloud-system-resolving model. Part II: System-scale and mesoscale processes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4305-4327

  Fudeyasu, Hironori ^a,d   Wang, Yuqing ^a   Satoh, Masaki ^b,c   Nasuno, Tomoe ^c   Miura, Hiroaki ^b   Yanase, Wataru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cloud resolving models; Mesoscale processes; Potential vorticity; Tropical cyclones; Wind

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC STRUCTURES; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; AXISYMMETRIC; AXISYMMETRIZATION; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CONVECTIVE VORTICES; DIABATIC HEATING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; EXTERNAL INFLUENCES; EYEWALL; GLOBAL CLOUDS; HOT TOWERS; INNER CORE; INTERNAL DYNAMICS; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MESOSCALE PROCESS; MULTIPLE MODELS; MULTISCALE INTERACTIONS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PRIMARY VORTEX; SECONDARY VORTEX; STORM INTENSITY; STRUCTURE CHANGE; TIMOR SEA; TRIGGERING MECHANISM; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL STORMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HURRICANES; TOWERS; TROPICS; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY;

STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CYCLOGENESIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOSPHERE;

INDONESIAN SEAS; JAVA SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 78651071307     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3475.1     Document Type: Article

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