Tropical Cyclone Formation/Structure/Motion Studies

Abstract

The long-term goals are to understand how variabilities in the large-scale atmospheric environment influence tropical cyclone track, structure, and intensity characteristics, and define how these influences differ between developing, mature, and decaying tropical cyclones. Throughout its life cycle, a tropical cyclone has the potential for impacting many shore- and sea-based fleet operations. During the intensification stage of a tropical cyclone, structure and track characteristics can exhibit large variabilities that decrease potential predictability. Furthermore, there are often periods of reduced predictability during the decaying stage of a tropical cyclone.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2007
Accession Number
ADA548344

Entities

People

  • Patrick A. Harr

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Case Studies
  • Cycles
  • Cyclones
  • Databases
  • Discriminant Analysis
  • Environment
  • Information Science
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Life Cycles
  • Meteorological Phenomena
  • Meteorology
  • Rossby Waves
  • Sea Based
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Tropical Cyclones
  • Weather Forecasting

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology