The governing dynamics of the secondary eyewall formation of typhoon sinlaku (2008)

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3818-3837

  Qiang Sun, Y ^a,b   Jiang, Yuxin ^a   Tan, Benkui ^a   Zhang, Fuqing ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HURRICANES; STORMS;

CONVECTIVE CELL; CONVECTIVE HEATING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; REPLACEMENT CYCLES; SIMULATED STORMS; TANGENTIAL WIND;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; RAINBAND; STORM; TYPHOON;

EID: 84896979877     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-044.1     Document Type: Article

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