The Impact of Spray-Mediated Enhanced Enthalpy and Reduced Drag Coefficients in the Modelling of Tropical Cyclones

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 501-514

  Zweers, N C ^a,b   Makin, V K ^a   de Vries, J W ^a   Kudryavtsev, V N ^c,d  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b MeteoGroup   (Netherlands)

^c NANSEN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTRE   (Russian Federation)

^d RUSSIAN STATE HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Drag coefficient; Enthalpy exchange coefficient; High wind speeds; Spray; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DRAG; DRAG COEFFICIENT; DROPS; ENTHALPY; HURRICANES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SPEED; SPRAYING; STORMS; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS; WATER WAVES; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND EFFECTS;

EXCHANGE COEFFICIENTS; HIGH WIND SPEED; MARINE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR;

WIND;

EID: 84939936361     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: 15731472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-014-9996-1     Document Type: Article

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