Effects of vertical shears and midlevel dry air on tropical cyclone developments

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3859-3875

  Ge, Xuyang ^a   Li, Tim ^a   Peng, Melinda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; HURRICANES; VORTEX FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMBINED EFFECT; CYCLONIC CIRCULATION; MOIST CONVECTION; SECONDARY CIRCULATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL ALIGNMENT; VERTICALLY ALIGNED; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

SHEAR FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; EASTERLY WAVE; SHEAR FLOW; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTEX FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING; WESTERLY;

EID: 84897013262     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-066.1     Document Type: Article

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