Vertical structure of tropical cyclones at onset of the rapid intensification in the HWRF model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3298-3306

  Kieu, Chanh ^a   Tallapragada, Vijay ^a   Hogsett, Wallace ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

HWRF model; onset of rapid intensification; tropical cyclone intensification

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; HURRICANES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DYNAMICAL STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENT CONDITIONS; RAPID INTENSIFICATION; THERMODYNAMIC STRUCTURES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; VORTEX STRUCTURES; WEATHER RESEARCH;

VORTEX FLOW;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTEX; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84901953124     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059584     Document Type: Article

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