A statistical analysis of vertical shear effect on tropical cyclone intensity change in the North Atlantic

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Zeng, Zhihua ^a,b   Wang, Yuqing ^c   Chen, Lianshou ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HURRICANES; TROPOSPHERE;

HIGH LATITUDES; INTENSITY CHANGE; LOW LATITUDES; NORTH ATLANTIC; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE INTENSITY CHANGE; VERTICAL SHEAR; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 84857311225     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041788     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Black, M. L., J. F. Gamache, F. D. Marks Jr., C. E. Samsury, and H. E. Willoughby (2002), Eastern Pacific hurricanes Jimena of 1991 and Olivia of 1994: The effect of vertical shear on structure and intensity, Mon. Weather Rev., 130, 2291-2312, doi:10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130< 2291:EPHJOA>2.0.CO;2.
2. Braun, S. A., and L. Wu (2007), A numerical study of Hurricane Erin (2001). Part II: Shear and the organization of eyewall vertical motion, Mon. Weather Rev., 135, 1179-1194, doi:10.1175/MWR3336.1.
3. Chen, S. S., J. A. Knaff, and F. Marks Jr. (2006), Effects of vertical wind shear and storm motion on tropical cyclone rainfall asymmetries deduced from TRMM, Mon. Weather Rev., 134, 3190-3208, doi:10.1175/ MWR3245.1.
4. DeMaria, M. (1996), The effect of vertical shear on tropical cyclone intensity change, J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 2076 - 2087, doi:10.1175/1520- 0469(1996)053<2076:TEOVSO>2.0.CO;2.
5. DeMaria, M., and J. Kaplan (1999), An updated statistical hurricane intensity prediction scheme (SHIPS) for the Atlantic and North Pacific basins, Weather Forecast., 14, 326-337, doi:10.1175/1520-0434(1999) 014<0326: AUSHIP>2.0.CO;2.
6. Emanuel, K. A. (2000), A statistical analysis of hurricane intensity, Mon. Weather Rev., 128, 1139-1152, doi:10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128< 1139:ASAOTC>2.0.CO;2.
7. Frank, W. M., and E. A. Ritchie (2001), Effects of vertical wind shear on the intensity and structure of numerically simulated hurricanes, Mon. Weather Rev., 129, 2249-2269, doi:10.1175/1520-0493(2001)129< 2249:EOVWSO>2.0. CO;2.
8. Gray, M. W. (1968), Global view of the origin of tropical disturbances and storms, Mon. Weather Rev., 96, 669 - 700, doi:10.1175/1520- 0493(1968)096<0669:GVOTOO>2.0.CO;2.
9. Heymsfield, G. M., J. Simpson, J. Halverson, L. Tian, E. Ritchie, and J. Molinarim (2006), Structure of highly sheared Tropical Storm Chantal during CAMEX-4, J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 268-287, doi:10.1175/JAS3602.1.
10. Kalnay, E., et al. (1996), The NCEP/NCAR 40 year reanalysis project, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 77, 437-471, doi:10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077< 0437:TNYRP>2.0.CO;2.
11. Knaff, J. A., C. R. Sampson, and M. DeMaria (2005), An operational statistical typhoon intensity prediction scheme for the western North Pacific, Weather Forecast., 20, 688-699, doi:10.1175/WAF863.1.
12. Paterson, L. A., B. N. Hanstrum, N. E. Davidson, and H. C. Weber (2005), Influence of environmental vertical wind shear on the intensity of hurricane-strength tropical cyclones in the Australian region, Mon. Weather Rev., 133, 3644-3660, doi:10.1175/MWR3041.1.
13. Reasor, P. D., M. T. Montgomery, and L. D. Grasso (2004), A new look at the problem of tropical cyclones in vertical shear: Vortex resiliency, J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 3-22, doi:10.1175/1520-0469(2004)061<0003: ANLATP>2.0.CO;2.
14. Ritchie, E. A., and W. M. Frank (2007), Interactions between simulated tropical cyclones and an environment with a variable Coriolis parameter, Mon. Weather Rev., 135, 1889-1905, doi:10.1175/MWR3359.1.
15. Wang, Y., and G. J. Holland (1996), Tropical cyclone motion and evolution in vertical shear, J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 3313 - 3332, doi:10.1175/1520- 0469(1996)053<3313:TCMAEI>2.0.CO;2.
16. Wang, Y., and C.-C. Wu (2004), Current understanding of tropical cyclone structure and intensity changes-A review, Meteorol. Atmos. Phys., 87, 257-278, doi:10.1007/s00703-003-0055-6.
17. Wong, M. L. M., and J. C. L. Chan (2004), Tropical cyclone intensity in vertical wind shear, J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 1859- 1876, doi:10.1175/1520- 0469(2004)061<1859:TCIIVW>2.0.CO;2.
18. Zehr, R. M. (2003), Environmental vertical wind shear with Hurricane Bertha (1996), Weather Forecast., 18, 345 - 356, doi:10.1175/1520- 0434(2003)018<0345:EVWSWH>2.0.CO;2.
19. Zeng, Z., Y. Wang, and C.-C. Wu (2007), Environmental dynamical control of tropical cyclone intensity-An observational study, Mon. Weather Rev., 135, 38-59, doi:10.1175/MWR3278.1.
20. Zeng, Z., L.-S. Chen, and Y. Wang (2008), An observational study of environmental dynamical control of tropical cyclone intensity in the North Atlantic, Mon. Weather Rev., 136, 3307-3322, doi:10.1175/ 2008MWR2388.1.