Parameter study of tropical cyclones in rotating radiative-convective equilibrium with column physics and resolution of a 25-km GCM

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1058-1069

  Zhou, Wenyu ^a   Held, Isaac M ^b   Garner, Stephen T ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; HURRICANE FREQUENCY; HYDROSTATIC DYNAMICS; PARAMETER DEPENDENCY; RADIATIVE-CONVECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL DEPRESSIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; STORMS;

HURRICANES;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTICITY;

EID: 84896795041     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-0190.1     Document Type: Article

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