Multiscale interactions in the life cycle of a tropical cyclone simulated in a global cloud-system-resolving model. Part I: Large-scale and storm-scale evolutions

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4285-4304

  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; Large scale motions; Madden Julian oscillation; Tropical cyclones; Wind

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; AUSTRAL SUMMERS; AUSTRALIA; AXISYMMETRIZATION; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONIC EDDY; CYCLONIC VORTICITY; DEFORMATION FIELD; EYEWALL; GLOBAL CLOUDS; INDIAN OCEAN; LARGE-SCALE MOTIONS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MESOSCALE PROCESS; MULTISCALE INTERACTIONS; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECT; SIMULATED STORMS; TIMOR SEA; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE INTENSITY; TROPICAL STORMS; VERTICAL SHEAR; WAVE NUMBERS; WESTERLY WIND BURSTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HURRICANES; STRETCHING; TROPICS; VORTEX FLOW;

STORMS;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CYCLOGENESIS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; STORM; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTICITY; WESTERLY;

INDONESIAN SEAS; JAVA SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 78651102299     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3474.1     Document Type: Article

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