Abstract: The purpose of this study is to identify what effects are responsible for the observed temperature field, in particular the lower-level cold core, in the trough region of a convectively active tropical easterly wave ...

Abstract: GATE Phase III A/B- and B-scale data were analyzed and used to diagnostically test the first-order vorticity equation proposed by Cho et al. The results are given in the form of a composite easterly wave and the analysis ...

Abstract: A procedure is introduced to derive a general balance condition for synoptic-scale disturbances in the tropics. The condition describes a balance between the mean pressure and momentum fields, and the pressure forcing by ...

Abstract: A first order vorticity equation tropical disturbances is derived. The equation indicates that the evolution of the vorticity field in the tropical atmosphere is influenced mainly by the horizontal advection of vorticity, ...

Abstract: The object of this paper is to describe and demonstrate the necessity and utility of a coupled atmosphere-fire model: a three-dimensional, time-dependent wildfire simulation model, based on the primitive equations of motion ...