A cloud-resolving regional simulation of tropical cyclone formation

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Abstract

The development of Tropical Cyclone Diana (1984) is simulated with a mesoscale model using 1.2 km grid spacing over a regional-scale (>1000 km) domain in the first known experiment of this kind. With only a synoptic-scale disturbance in the initial conditions, the model first develops a mesoscale convective system along a remnant frontal zone, which yields a mesoscale vortex. After a period of quiescence, banded convection organizes about the vortex from isolated, grid-resolved cells, with the system becoming warm-core and intensifying into Tropical Storm Diana.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)15-24
Number of pages10
JournalAtmospheric Science Letters
Volume3
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002

Keywords

  • Humicanes
  • Mesoscale modelling
  • Numerical weather prediction
  • Tropical cyclogenesis

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