Putting to rest WISHE-ful misconceptions for tropical cyclone intensification

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 92-109

  Montomery, Michael T ^a   Persing, John ^a   Smith, Roger K ^b  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

intensity; rotating convective updraft paradigm; tropical cyclones; WISHE

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; NUMERICAL MODELS; STORMS; TROPICS;

FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; INTENSITY; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; QUIESCENT ENVIRONMENTS; RAPID INTENSIFICATION; ROTATING CONVECTIVE UPDRAFT PARADIGM; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WISHE;

HURRICANES;

FEEDBACK MECHANISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARADIGM SHIFT; PARAMETERIZATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTEX;

EID: 85028223593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014MS000362     Document Type: Article

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