Symmetric and asymmetric structures of hurricane boundary layer in coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean models and observations

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3576-3594

  Lee, Chia Ying ^a   Chen, Shuyi S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Boundary layer; Coupled models; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA FLUX; AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; AIR-SEA COUPLING; AIR-SEA INTERFACE; ASYMMETRIC STRUCTURES; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; COUPLED MODELS; DYNAMIC PROPERTY; FULLY-COUPLED; FULLY-COUPLED MODEL; HURRICANE BOUNDARY LAYERS; HURRICANE FRANCES; MIXED LAYER; MODEL RESULTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN MODEL; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); STORM STRUCTURE; SURFACE WINDS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; UPPER OCEAN; WAVE COUPLING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HURRICANES; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; SURFACE WAVES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; HURRICANE; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84871946221     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-046.1     Document Type: Article

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