Convective bursts, downdraft cooling, and boundary layer recovery in a sheared tropical storm

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1048-1060

  Molinari, John ^a   Frank, Jaclyn ^b   Vollaro, David ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b AWS Truepower   (United States)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; Deep convection; Dry intrusions; Hurricanes; Mesoscale processes; Wind shear

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE DOWNDRAFTS; DEEP CONVECTION; DRY INTRUSIONS; MESOSCALE PROCESS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; TANGENTIAL VELOCITIES; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR; WIND SHEARS;

BUOYANCY; HURRICANES; MOISTURE; NATURAL CONVECTION; RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT; STORMS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; BUOYANCY; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; HEAT FLUX; HURRICANE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE FLUX; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 84875639310     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00135.1     Document Type: Article

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