Effects of Convective Heating and Air-Sea Interaction on Tropical Cyclone Motion

Abstract

Long-term goals are to improve prediction of the tropical cyclone motion. The specific scientific objectives of this study is to develop our physical understanding of the mechanisms by which convective heating and tropical cyclone-upper ocean interaction affect the baroclinic beta-drift of tropical cyclones. Numerical experiments with a realistic hurricane model and a coupled hurricane-ocean model. A new diagnositic approach for quantitative analysis of the effects of various processes governing tropical cyclone motion is developed to explain the numerical results.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA539390

Entities

People

  • Bin Wang
  • T. A. Schroeder

Organizations

  • University of HawaiĘ»i System

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Advection
  • Air Water Interactions
  • Convergence Zones (Sonar)
  • Cyclones
  • Dynamics
  • Electronic Mail
  • Heat Energy
  • High Resolution
  • Hurricanes
  • Information Operations
  • Meteorology
  • Oceans
  • Pacific Ocean
  • South Asia
  • Tropical Cyclones
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers