Deducing Air-Sea Fluxes from CBLAST Dropwindsonde Data

Abstract

Our ultimate objective is to understand and be able to predict changes in the intensities of hurricanes. Over the last three decades, there has been considerable improvement in both our understanding and our ability to predict the tracks of hurricanes, but there is, by contrast, little skill in predicting hurricane intensity change.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2005
Accession Number
ADA572730

Entities

People

  • Kerry Emanuel
  • Peter Black

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Angular Momentum
  • Boundary Layer
  • Coefficients
  • Contrast
  • Cyclones
  • Enthalpy
  • High Resolution
  • Hurricanes
  • Intensity
  • Measurement
  • Meteorological Phenomena
  • Momentum
  • Planetary Sciences
  • Radial Velocity
  • Storms
  • Tropical Cyclones

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers