Abstract: The cyclostrophic and hydrostatic adjustment of simple one-layer and multilayer vortex flows to the local removal and/or redistribution of mass and angular momentum are studied, and a detailed physical interpretation of ...

Abstract: The problem of explaining the surface pressure rise in simple balanced models of fronts, discussed at length by Sutcliffe, is reexamined. It is shown that air mass models for steadily translating fronts (including the ...

Abstract: An analytical theory is presented for the motion of an initially symmetric barotropic vortex on a beta-plane at rest, the prototype problem in the theory of tropical cyclone motion. In the case of vortices with parameter ...

Abstract: The minimal three-dimensional tropical cyclone model developed by Zhu et al. is used to explore the role of shallow convection, precipitation-cooled downdrafts, and the vertical transport of momentum by deep convection on ...

Abstract: We examine air parcel trajectories in the two-dimensional model for a cold front by Reeder and Smith. These are found to be in close agreement with trajectories deduced from analyses of summertime ?cool changes? in ...

Abstract: The dynamics of frontal evolution is investigated in the context of the Australian summertime cool change using a two-dimensional numerical model. The model is essentially the same as that used by Reeder and Smith, but ...

Abstract: A minimal 3D numerical model designed for basic studies of tropical cyclone behavior is described. The model is formulated in σ coordinates on an f or ? plane and has three vertical levels, one characterizing a shallow ...

Abstract: he authors review an emerging paradigm of tropical cyclone intensification in the context of the prototype intensification problem, which relates to the spinup of a preexisting vortex near tropical storm strength in a ...

Abstract: The Australian west coast trough forms near the west coast in the easterly flow over Australia in the warmer months of the year. Its development and movement is the major synoptic influence on the weather in those months, ...

Abstract: Thermally forced atmospheric circulations over the Gulf of Carpentaria region of northeastern Australia are investigated using a mesoscale numerical model. The region is renown for the common occurrence of long westward-moving ...