A Ventilation Index for Tropical Cyclones

An important environmental control of both tropical cyclone intensity and genesis is vertical wind shear. One hypothesized pathway by which vertical shear affects tropical cyclones is midlevel ventilation—or the flux of low-entropy air into the center of the tropical cyclone. Based on a theoretical...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tang, Brian, Emanuel, Kerry Andrew
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Meteorological Society 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79652
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2066-2082