The impact of dry midlevel air on hurricane intensity in idealized simulations with no mean flow

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 236-257

  Braun, Scott A ^a   Sippel, Jason A ^b   Nolan, David S ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurricanes; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC CONVECTION; DRY AIR; HURRICANE INTENSITY; INNER CORE; MEAN FLOW; NEGATIVE INFLUENCE; STORM INTENSITY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTEX CENTERS; VORTEX CORES; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HURRICANES; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

VORTEX FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; HEATING; HURRICANE; SIMULATION; STORM; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTEX; VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84855767594     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-10-05007.1     Document Type: Article

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