Sensitivity of tropical-cyclone models to the surface drag coefficient in different boundary-layer schemes

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 140, Issue 680, 2014, Pages 792-804

  Smith, Roger K ^a   Montgomery, Michael T ^b,c   Thomsen, Gerald L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Frictional drag; Hurricanes; Surface drag coefficient; Tropical cyclones; Typhoons

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; HURRICANES; STORMS; TROPICS; VORTEX FLOW; WIND;

BOUNDARY-LAYER FORMULATION; EXCHANGE COEFFICIENTS; FRICTIONAL DRAG; MAXIMUM INTENSITIES; MONOTONIC DECREASE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTEX EVOLUTIONS;

DRAG COEFFICIENT;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; DRAG COEFFICIENT; HURRICANE; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84899476047     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2057     Document Type: Article

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