Effect of environmental shear, sea-surface temperature, and ambient moisture on the formation and predictability of tropical cyclones: An ensemble-mean perspective

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 384-404

  Tao, Dandan ^a   Zhang, Fuqing ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dry air intrusion; precession; tropical cyclone predictability; vertical wind shear

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HURRICANES; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VORTEX FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DRY-AIR INTRUSIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; PRECESSION; RAPID INTENSIFICATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 84904859354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014MS000314     Document Type: Article

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