Abstract: The influence of vertical wind shear on the azimuthal distribution of cloud-to-ground lightning in tropical cyclones was examined using flash locations from the National Lightning Detection Network. The study covers 35 ...

Abstract: The influence of the direction of storm motion on the azimuthal distribution of electrified convection in 35 Atlantic basin tropical cyclones from 1985 to 1999 was examined using data from the National Lightning Detection ...

Abstract: The development of Hurricane Danny (1997) from depression to hurricane was examined using cloud-to-ground lightning data, reconnaissance aircraft data, and satellite imagery. Vertical wind shear between 850 and 200 hPa of ...

Abstract: dealized experiments conducted with an axisymmetric tropical cyclone (TC) model are used to assess the effects of midlevel dry air on the axisymmetric TC secondary circulation. Moist entropy diagnostics of convective parcels ...

Abstract: ropical cyclone (TC) size is an important factor directly and indirectly influencing track, intensity, and related hazards, such as storm surge. Using a semi-idealized version of the operational Hurricane Weather Research ...

Abstract: Analyses of tropical cyclones created in an idealized environment reveal how and why cloud microphysical assumptions can influence storm motion, including speed and direction. It is well known that in the absence of a mean ...

Abstract: One of the most complete aircraft reconnaissance and ground-based radar datasets of a single tropical cyclone was recorded in Hurricane Elena (1985) as it made a slow, 3-day anticyclonic loop in the Gulf of Mexico. ...

Abstract: s global lightning detection has become more reliable, many studies have analyzed the characteristics of lightning in tropical cyclones (TCs); however, very few studies have examined flashes in eastern North Pacific (ENP) ...