Diagnosis of Tropical Cyclone Structure and Intensity Change

Abstract

Objectives: a. To investigate the origin and evolution of tropopause-based precursor disturbances that culminate in rapid maritime cyclogenesis over the western North Atlantic Ocean. b. To investigate the roles of trough interactions in tropical-cyclone intensity change with a view toward determining the factors that distinguish between cyclogenetic and cyclolytic trough interactions. c. To investigate the roles of environmental dynamical effects on tropical-cyclone structure and intensity change. d. To investigate the kinematics of vorticity asymmetries associated with nondivergent barotropic vortices on a beta-plane.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1998
Accession Number
ADA534667

Entities

People

  • Daniel Keyser

Organizations

  • State University of New York at Albany

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Convection
  • Cyclones
  • Energy Transfer
  • Flow Fields
  • Intensity
  • Layers
  • Meteorology
  • New York
  • North America
  • Shallow Water
  • Tropical Cyclones
  • Wind Shear
  • Wind Velocity

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology