Large-Eddy simulation of roll vortices in a hurricane boundary layer

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3558-3575

  Nakanishi, Mikio ^a,b   Niino, Hiroshi ^c  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE ACADEMY   (Japan)

^b Japan Agency for the Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Hurricanes; Instability; Large eddy simulations; Principal components analysis

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; FORMATION MECHANISM; GROUND SURFACES; HORIZONTAL DISTRIBUTION; HORIZONTAL ROLL VORTICES; HURRICANE BOUNDARY LAYERS; INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVES; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ WAVES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; RADIAL VELOCITY; ROLL VORTEX; TURBULENCE STATISTICS; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; HURRICANES; KINETICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; PLASMA STABILITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

VORTEX FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYER; HURRICANE; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84871940073     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0237.1     Document Type: Article

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