Balanced contribution to the intensification of a tropical cyclone simulated in TCM4: Outer-core spinup process

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 430-449

  Fudeyasu, Hironori ^a,b   Wang, Yuqing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diabatic heating; Hurricanes; Nonhydrostatic models; Numerical analysis modeling; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

CORE REGION; DIABATIC HEATING; EYEWALL; INERTIAL STABILITY; NONHYDROSTATIC MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING; RADIAL INFLOW; RADIAL WINDS; RAINBANDS; SECONDARY CIRCULATION; SPIN-UP; TANGENTIAL WIND; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL CIRCULATION;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; HEATING; STORMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

HURRICANES;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; DIABATIC PROCESS; HEATING; HURRICANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIAL FLOW; STRATIFORM CLOUD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

EID: 79955001344     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3523.1     Document Type: Article

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