Tropical Cyclones

Abstract

After a brief presentation of the salient observational facts about tropical cyclones, the two principal models for the cyclone-scale structure and maintenance of the quasisteady mature stage are described--the older model by Riehl and Malkus and the recently developed model by Carrier. One point of disagreement between the two models is that Riehl and Malkus postulate that greatly augmented sea-to-air transfer of latent and sensible heat is required to sustain a hurricane, while Carrier states that (because the storm convects a large mass of warm moist air with it) the local sea-to-air transfer of total enthalpy is about the same whether a hurricane is present or not.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0737016

Entities

People

  • Francis E. Fendell
  • Paul Dergarabedian

Organizations

  • TRW Inc.

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Computers
  • Convection
  • Equations Of State
  • Fish
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Transfer
  • Latent Heat
  • Phase Transformations
  • Sea Level
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Thermodynamics
  • Tropical Cyclones
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Theoretical Analysis.