Gradient wind balance in tropical cyclones in high-resolution global experiments

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1908-1926

  Miyamoto, Yoshiaki ^a   Satoh, Masaki ^b,c   Tomita, Masaki ^a   Oouchi, Kazuyoshi ^c   Yamada, Yohei ^c   Kodama, Chihiro ^c   Kinter III, James ^d  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

AXISYMMETRIC STRUCTURE; CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATION; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MAXIMUM WIND SPEED; REALISTIC ENVIRONMENTS; TANGENTIAL VELOCITIES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL DIRECTION;

HURRICANES;

NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84899868641     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00115.1     Document Type: Article

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