Rapidly intensifying hurricane Guillermo (1997). Part II: Resilience in shear

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 425-444

  Reasor, Paul D ^a   Eastin, Matthew D ^b  

^a NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Hurricanes; Radars Radar observation; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE DOPPLER RADAR; CORE REGION; DOPPLER; EYEWALL; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OBSERVATION PERIOD; RADAR ANALYSIS; RADAR DATASETS; RAPID INTENSIFICATION; STATISTICAL CONFIDENCE; THERMAL ASYMMETRY; TIME-AVERAGED; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE INTENSITY CHANGE; VERTICAL MOTIONS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR; VORTEX CORES; VORTEX TILT;

DOPPLER RADAR; DYNAMICS; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY;

HURRICANES;

DOPPLER RADAR; HURRICANE EVENT; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 84857067869     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00080.1     Document Type: Article

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