A Ventilation Index for Tropical Cyclones
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A Ventilation Index for Tropical Cyclones
A number of environmental factors control both tropical cyclogenesis and tropical cyclone (TC) intensity, contributing to the challenge of TC prediction. Among these environmental controls is the interaction of TCs with environmental vertical wind shear. Since environmental vertical wind shear is always present in varying amounts during the life of any TC, it is important to understand how wind...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1520-0477
DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-11-00165.1