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02 Dec 2016
Research article |
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Revisiting the steering principal of tropical cyclone motion in a numerical experiment
Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education
(KLME), Pacific Typhoon Research Center (PTRC), Nanjing University of
Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China
State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of
Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China
Xiaoyu Chen
Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education
(KLME), Pacific Typhoon Research Center (PTRC), Nanjing University of
Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China
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The study shows that the conventional steering calculated over a certain radius from the tropical cyclone center in the horizontal and a deep pressure layer in the vertical is not literally the steering or the advection of the symmetric potential vorticity component associated with a tropical cyclone by the asymmetric flow. The trochoidal motion around the mean tropical cyclone track cannot be accounted for by the effect of the conventional steering.
The study shows that the conventional steering calculated over a certain radius from the...
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