Effect of planetary boundary layer schemes on the development of intense tropical cyclones using a cloud-resolving model

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Kanada, Sachie ^a   Wada, Akiyoshi ^b   Nakano, Masuo ^a   Kato, Teruyuki ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HURRICANES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; COEFFICIENT VALUES; EYEWALL; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; INNER CORE; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; MAXIMUM WIND SPEED; MIXING LENGTH; NONLOCAL; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPERATIONAL USE; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; SUBGRID SCALE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS LENGTH; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL EDDY DIFFUSIVITY; WATER VAPOR TRANSFER;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; DIFFUSIVITY; HEAT TRANSFER; MIXING; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WATER VAPOR; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84856964633     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016582     Document Type: Article

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