Abstract: The outer cloudband structure of a tropical cyclone is kinematically treated as the manifestation of a forced set of waves stationary with respect to the cyclone. When the cyclone wind field is modeled as a Rankine vortex ...

Abstract: Meteorological services are expected to function as forecasting agencies, but much of the existing data collection network appears to exist in order to provide a data base for scientific studies. A better definition of the ...

Abstract: We use radiosonde data from Tamale in northern Ghana to evaluate the Z criterion latitude φz. We find it correlates well with other Hadley cell parameters since its variations are apparently controlled by the meridional ...