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Intense Atmospheric Vortices

Proceedings of the Joint Symposium (IUTAM/IUGG) held at Reading (United Kingdom) July 14–17, 1981

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1982

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Editors:
  1. Lennart Bengtsson

    1. European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, Berkshire, England

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  2. James Lighthill

    1. University College London, London, England

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Part of the book series: Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TATM)

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Table of contents (24 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Tropical Cyclones

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Tropical Cyclone Genesis and Intensification

      • W. M. Gray
      Pages 3-20

    3. On Basic Problems in Theory and Modeling of the Tropical Cyclone

      • K. V. Ooyama
      Pages 21-34

    4. On the Structure of Hurricanes as Revealed by Research Aircraft Data

      • R. C. Sheets
      Pages 35-49

    5. Lagrangian Angular Momentum Transports in Tropical Cyclones

      • G. J. Holland
      Pages 51-59

    6. Numerical Analyses on the Activities of Intense Atmospheric Vortices (Typhoons) Over China

      • D. Xing-yuan, Z. Zi-dong
      Pages 61-69

    7. Influence of Environmental Conditions on the Genesis of a Tropical Storm

      • Y. Kurihara, R. E. Tuleya
      Pages 71-79

    8. Model Development of Atlantic Hurricanes from Prehurricane Cloud Clusters, Depressions and Cyclones

      • R. L. Pfeffer, M. Challa
      Pages 81-94

    9. The Numerical Experiment on the Contribution of Landed Typhoon to the Rainfall in North China

      • X. An, X. Wen-jun
      Pages 95-103

    10. Estimation of Radial Distribution of Eddy Viscosity in a Mature Hurricane

      • D. R. Davies, H. P. Evans
      Pages 105-110

    11. Spontaneously Growing Hurricanelike Disturbances in a Simple Baroclinic Model with Latent Heat Release

      • A. E. Gill
      Pages 111-129

    12. The Factors Determining Radial Flow and Eye Formation in an Intensifying Tropical Cyclone

      • R. P. Pearce
      Pages 131-146
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Editors and Affiliations

  • European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, Berkshire, England

    Lennart Bengtsson

  • University College London, London, England

    James Lighthill

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Intense Atmospheric Vortices

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Joint Symposium (IUTAM/IUGG) held at Reading (United Kingdom) July 14–17, 1981

  • Editors: Lennart Bengtsson, James Lighthill

  • Series Title: Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81866-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 1982

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-11657-8Published: 01 August 1982

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-81866-0Published: 12 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1431-9314

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 326

  • Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Fluid- and Aerodynamics, Classical and Continuum Physics

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