Tropical Cyclone Motion - Meteo 597F
Dr Jenni Evans
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Tropical Cyclone Motion - Meteo 597F |
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A sample of the coastal damage resulting from the 4 October landfall of Hurricane Opal (1995; IR image above) on the Florida coast.
Tropical cyclone motion is investigated in this course. The topic of study varies from year-to-year. Each student will choose a particular aspect of this problem and will set about writing a research proposal (along the lines of a PhD or NSF grant proposal). Topics covered include Fujiwhara effect, barotropic modeling of storm motion, effects on motion on variations in the storm wind profile, Earth vorticity gradients, environmental gradients and baroclinicity. Access to the homepages of each of the course participants is provided below.
Click here
to go to Bob Hart's homepage.
Click here
to go to Dan Guertin's homepage.
Click here
to go to Giang Nong's homepage.
Click here
to go to Mike Pontrelli's homepage.
Bibliography:
These are the
papers we began the course reading:
Adem, J., 1956: A series solution for the barotropic vorticity equation and its application in the study of atmospheric vortices. Tellus, 8, 364-372.
Rossby, C.-G., 1948: On displacements and intensity changes of atmospheric vorticesJ. Mar. Res., 7, 175-187.
These are the
full semester reference lists:
Mike Pontrelli's
reference list.
Correspondence:
Send email to:
Dr Jenni Evans
(evans@essc.psu.edu)
Last Updated: April 5, 1996
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