Tropical Cyclones: Observations and Basic Processes

Tropical Cyclones: Observations and Basic Processes provides a modern observational overview of tropical cyclone structure and behavior. Organized into two sections, Part I builds a new foundation for basic understanding of tropical cyclone genesis, intensification and weakening. Part II employs the basic elements developed in Chapter 2-10 to present new appraisals of the accepted WISHE paradigm of vortex intensification, storm energetics, requirements for a quasi-steady state hurricane and more likely transient lifecycle behavior in a consistent three-dimensional flow configuration. This book provides a state-of-the-art summary of the fundamentals of cyclones accessible to advanced undergraduates, graduate students and hurricane forecasters. Tropical cyclones are one of the biggest threats to life and property, even in the formative stages of their development. They include a number of different hazards that can individually cause significant impacts on life and property, such as storm surge, flooding, extreme winds, tornadoes and lighting. Covers detailed appraisals of the currently accepted WISHE paradigm for tropical cyclone intensification Overviews the systematic development of the foundations of tropical cyclone dynamics and thermodynamics Includes access to a companion site with animations of satellite data during highlighted tropic cyclogenesis events INDICE: 1. Observations of tropical cyclones2. Fluid dynamics and moist thermodynamics3. Tropical cyclone motion4. Vortex asymmetries, vortex waves5. Axisymmetric Vortex Theory Fundamentals6. Frictional effects7. Estimating boundary layer parameters8. A prognostic balance theory for vortex evolution9. Moist convection10. Tropical cyclone formation and intensification11. The rotating-convection paradigm12. Emanuel's intensification and maximum intensity theories13. Global budgets and steady state considerations14. Tropical cyclone life cycle 26715. Miscellaneous topics

• ISBN: 978-0-443-13449-4
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés