On the use of two-dimensional incompressible flow to study secondary eyewall formation in tropical cyclones

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3765-3773

  Moon, Yumin ^a   Nolan, David S ^a   Iskandarani, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurricanes; Numerical analysis modeling; Tropical cyclones; Vorticity

Indexed keywords

AXISYMMETRIZATION; EYEWALL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PHYSICS SIMULATION; RING FORMATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; TWO-DIMENSIONAL INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; VORTICITY FIELD;

HURRICANES; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; STORMS; TROPICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VORTEX FLOW;

VORTICITY;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; HURRICANE; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERTURBATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; VORTICITY;

EID: 78651086808     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3615.1     Document Type: Article

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