Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-7cvxr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-21T02:56:09.778Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The intensification of hurricanes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

G. F. Carrier
G. F. Carrier
Affiliation:
Harvard University
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An account is given of the dynamic balance and the thermodynamic considerations which underlie the intensification of a tropical disturbance into a mature hurricane. In particular, it is deduced that the e-folding time for the later stages of the intensification process is of the order of 16 h but that the eye formation itself can occur on a much shorter time scale.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , 13 September 1971 , pp. 145 - 158
Copyright
© 1971 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Carrier, G. F. 1971 Swirling flow boundary layers. J. Fluid Mech., 49, 133–144.Google Scholar
Carrier, G. F., Hammond, A. & George, O. 1971 A model of the mature hurricane. J. Fluid Mech., 47, 145–170.Google Scholar
Jordan, C. L. 1957 A mean atmosphere for the West Indies area. National Hurricane Research Project Report, no. 6, U.S. Department of Commerce.Google Scholar
Malkus, J. 1958 On the structure and maintenance of the mature hurricane eye. J. Meteor., 15, 337–349.Google Scholar