Tropical cyclone convection: The effects of ambient vertical vorticity

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 657, 2011, Pages 845-857

  Wissmeier, Ulrike ^a   Smith, Roger K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Rotating deep convection; Tropical cyclone; Vortical hot towers

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK CALCULATIONS; CONVECTIVE CELL; DEEP CONVECTION; ELASTICITY EFFECT; HORIZONTAL SHEAR; HOT TOWERS; LOW LEVEL; MONTGOMERY; NUMERICAL MODELS; ROTATION RATE; SOLID-BODY ROTATION; SURFACE FRICTION; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES; TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL DEPRESSIONS; UNIFIED THEORY; VERTICAL SHEAR; VERTICAL VORTICITY;

AMPLIFICATION; CENTRIFUGATION; CORIOLIS FORCE; ELASTICITY; HURRICANES; NATURAL CONVECTION; ROTATION; SHEAR FLOW; STORMS; TROPICS;

VORTICITY;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CORIOLIS FORCE; CYCLOGENESIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRESSURE GRADIENT; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VORTICITY;

EID: 79957885652     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.819     Document Type: Article

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