Importance of the upper-level warm core in the rapid intensification of a tropical cyclone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Da Lin ^a   Chen, Hua ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHEAR FLOW; STORMS; TROPICS;

ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; EYEWALL; HYDROSTATIC EQUATIONS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; PEAK AMPLITUDE; PEAK INTENSITY; PRESSURE CHANGE; RADIAL INFLOW; RAPID INTENSIFICATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL SHEAR; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR;

HURRICANES;

AMPLITUDE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; HURRICANE WILMA 2005; PRESSURE GRADIENT; STRATOSPHERE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 84863031013     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050578     Document Type: Article

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