Airborne doppler observations of the inner-core structural differences between intensifying and steady-state tropical cyclones

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2970-2991

  Rogers, Robert ^a   Reasor, Paul ^a   Lorsolo, Sylvie ^b  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUX PROFILES; RADIAL LOCATIONS; STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; UPWARD MOTION; VERTICAL VELOCITY; VERTICAL VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; VORTICITY STRUCTURE;

HURRICANES; VELOCITY;

VORTICITY;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; DOPPLER RADAR; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTICITY;

EID: 84880718577     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00357.1     Document Type: Article

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