The influence of island topography on typhoon track deflection

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1708-1727

  Huang, Yi Hsuan ^a   Wu, Chun Chieh ^a   Wang, Yuqing ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel flows; Experimental design; Model evaluation performance; Storm tracks; Topographic effects; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

BACKWARD TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; CHANNELING EFFECT; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; ISLAND TOPOGRAPHY; MODEL CONFIGURATION; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; REALISTIC MODEL; STEERING FLOW; STORM TRACKS; TERRAIN HEIGHT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VENTILATION FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); EXPERIMENTS; LANDFORMS; STORMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TOPOGRAPHY;

HURRICANES;

BACK ANALYSIS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; ISLAND; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; STORM TRACK; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TRAJECTORY; TYPHOON;

TAIWAN;

EID: 79959609826     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011MWR3560.1     Document Type: Article

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