A dynamical model for the study of tropical cyclone development.

The development of a tropical cyclone is viewed as a cooperative process between the cloud-scale convection as the energy source and the cyclone-scale motion as the mechanism of organizing the cloud convection. In order to formulate the coupling between the two different scales of phenomena in terms...

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Autor: Ooyama, Katsuyuki
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:1964
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Geofísica Internacional
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistagi.geofisica.unam.mx:article/1671
Acceso en línea:http://revistagi.geofisica.unam.mx/index.php/RGI/article/view/1671
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ciclones tropicales
Desarrollo
Escala de nubes
Convección de nubes
Modelo dinámico
Tropical cyclones
Development
Cyclone scale
Cloud convection
Dynamical model
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Sumario:The development of a tropical cyclone is viewed as a cooperative process between the cloud-scale convection as the energy source and the cyclone-scale motion as the mechanism of organizing the cloud convection. In order to formulate the coupling between the two different scales of phenomena in terms of the large scale fields alone, it is hypothesized that the statistical distribution and mean intensity of the cloud convection are controlled by the large scale convergence of the warm and moist air in a surface layer, while the vertical transfer of heat and mass due to the clouds are determined from a hypothetical model of cloud convection itself. These hypotheses are incorporated into a fluid system which consists of two layers of incompressible homogeneous fluid of different densities and a boundary layer to represent the effect of surface friction separately.