Abstract: Previous studies have offered hypotheses for the mechanisms that lead to secondary eyewall formation in tropical cyclones by using two-dimensional incompressible flow. Those studies represented the convection-induced ...

Abstract: A spectral finite-volume (SFV) method is proposed for the numerical solution of the shallow water equations. This is the first phase in the development of a layered (isopycnal) ocean model. Its target applications include, ...

Abstract: The early stages in the adjustment of the circulation in a midlatitude abyssal basin with realistic geometry and bathymetry are studied using an inverted 1½-layer model of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea as a natural test ...

Abstract: A shallow-water spectral element ocean model is implemented on multiple instruction multiple data, distributed memory parallel computers. A communications-minimizing partitioning algorithm for unstructured meshes, based ...

Abstract: AbstractThe extensive drifter deployment during the Lagrangian Submesoscale Experiment (LASER) provided observations of the surface velocity field in the northern Gulf of Mexico with high resolution in space and time. Here, ...

Abstract: hree sets of idealized, cloud-resolving simulations are performed to investigate the sensitivity of tropical cyclone (TC) structure and intensity to the height and depth of environmental vertical wind shear. In the first ...

Abstract: variational inverse problem is solved using polynomial chaos expansions to infer several critical variables in the Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model?s (HYCOM?s) wind drag parameterization. This alternative to the Bayesian ...

Abstract: n this study, singular vectors (SVs) are calculated for tropical cyclone (TC)?like vortices on an f plane and ? plane using a barotropic model, and the structure and time evolution of the SVs are investigated. In the f-plane ...

Abstract: This study focuses on understanding the evolution of Hurricane Earl (2010) with respect to random perturbations in the storm?s initial strength, size, and asymmetry in wind distribution. We rely on the Unified Wave ...

Abstract: he authors introduce a three-parameter characterization of the wind speed dependence of the drag coefficient and apply a Bayesian formalism to infer values for these parameters from airborne expendable bathythermograph ...