Tropical cyclone intensification

This page is under construction. The material here is that presented at the lecture on 17 July 2013.

1 Powerpoint presentation on 17 July as pdf

The following movies relate to the prototype problem for tropical cyclone intensification illustrated in the figure below and discussed here

 

The prototype problem for understanding tropical-cyclone intensification.

1 Movie at slide 18 http://www.meteo.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~roger/Roger/Projects.html(avi file, 42 Mb)

2 Movie at slide 23 (mp4 file, 165 Mb)

3 Movie showing evolution of azimuthally-averaged vertical velocity for 20 days (mp4 file, 328 Mb)

4 Movie of radial and tangential wind components (not shown in class: mp4 file 160 Mb)

5 Movie of angular momentum and potential temperature surfaces (not shown in class: mp4 file 133 Mb)

6 Review paper on paradigms for tropical cyclone intensification: Montgomery and Smith, (2013)

7 Paper on steady state tropical cyclones: Smith et al. (2013)

8 Paper on why model tropical cyclones intensify more rapidly at lower latitudes: Smith et al. (2014)

New movies made from Nina's data

9 Movie showing evolution of the vertical velocity at 6.3 km height for 5 days (mp4 file, 267 Mb)

10 Movie showing evolution of the relative vorticity at 1.4 km height for 5 days (mp4 file, 215 Mb)

11 Movie showing evolution of both the vertical velocity at 6.3 km height and the relative vorticity at at 1.4 km height for 5 days (mp4 file, 370 Mb)

12 Movie showing evolution of azimuthally-averaged radial and tangential wind components for 5 days (mp4 file, 223 Mb)

13 Movie showing evolution of azimuthally-averaged absolute angular momentum surfaces and radial velocity component for 5 days (mp4 file, 264 Mb)

Latest version: Munich 11 July 2015