On the generation of roll vortices due to the inflection point instability of the hurricane boundary layer flow

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4292-4307

  Gao, Kun ^a   Ginis, Isaac ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Hurricanes typhoons; Numerical analysis modeling; Subgrid scale processes

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; HURRICANES; VORTEX FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYER ROLLS; HORIZONTAL ROLL VORTICES; HURRICANE BOUNDARY LAYERS; HURRICANES/TYPHOONS; NEUTRALLY STRATIFIED; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING; STABLE STRATIFICATION; SUB-GRID SCALE PROCESS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; HURRICANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRATIFICATION; TYPHOON; VORTICITY;

EID: 84910133675     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-0362.1     Document Type: Article

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