Effects of the cold core eddy on tropical cyclone intensity and structure under idealized air-sea interaction conditions

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1285-1303

  Ma, Zhanhong ^a   Fei, Jianfang ^a   Liu, Lei ^a   Huang, Xiaogang ^a   Cheng, Xiaoping ^a  

^a PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; AXISYMMETRIZATION; INTENSITY REDUCTION; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL CYCLONE INTENSITY; VERTICAL ADVECTION; WATER VAPOR MIXING RATIO;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; RECOVERY; STORMS;

HURRICANES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MESOSCALE EDDY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 84878172805     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00123.1     Document Type: Article

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