Tropical Cyclones

Abstract

After a brief summary of salient observational facts about cumulus convection in the tropical ambient and about tropical cyclones, models for the cyclone-scale structure and maintenance of the quasisteady mature stage of a hurricane are presented and evaluated. Principal attention is devoted to the model developed by Riehl and Malkus in the late 1950's, and to the model developed by Carrier in the early 1970's.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0757084

Entities

People

  • Francis E. Fendell

Organizations

  • TRW Inc.

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Convection
  • Equations Of State
  • Fish
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Of Fusion
  • Heat Transfer
  • Isotherms
  • Latent Heat
  • Meteorology
  • Phase Transformations
  • Thermodynamics
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Systems Analysis and Design