Numerical simulations of Hurricane Katrina (2005) in the turbulent gray zone

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 142-161

  Green, Benjamin W ^a   Zhang, Fuqing ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

boundary layer; hurricanes; large eddy simulation; tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HURRICANES; NUMERICAL MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; STORMS; TURBULENCE;

ENERGY-CONTAINING EDDIES; HORIZONTAL GRID SPACING; HURRICANE KATRINA; INERTIAL SUBRANGE; MESO-SCALE MODELS; MESOSCALE SIMULATION; PARAMETERIZED; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

BOUNDARY LAYER; EDDY; HURRICANE KATRINA 2005; MOMENTUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TURBULENCE;

EID: 85027955319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014MS000399     Document Type: Article

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