The multiple vortex nature of tropical cyclogenesis
This thesis contains an observational analysis of the genesis of Tropical Storm Allison (2001). Using a paradigm of tropical cyclone formation as the superposition of potential vorticity (PV) anomalies, the importance of different scales of PV merger to various aspects of Allisons formation is disc...
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Texas A&M University
2005
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/1424 |