A highly configurable vortex initialization method for tropical cyclones

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3556-3575

  Rappin, Eric D ^a   Nolan, David S ^b   Majumdar, Sharanya J ^b  

^a WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Model initialization; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM DISTRIBUTION; BOUNDARY LAYER STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION OF MASS; INITIALIZATION METHODS; MODEL INITIALIZATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; SECONDARY CIRCULATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HURRICANES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS;

VORTEX FLOW;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; HYDROSTATICS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

EID: 84884944887     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00266.1     Document Type: Article

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