Accession Number:

AD0753620

Title:

Further Experiments with an Hurricane-Ocean Interaction Model.

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis,

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CALIF

Personal Author(s):

• Pearson,Nils Alexander Silliman

Report Date:

1972-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

60.0

Abstract:

Modifications were made to Corgnatis 1971 steady state, symmetrical hurricane model, which was based on a model proposed by Riehl 1963, and in which bulk aerodynamic transfer formulas were used to predict the air-sea interaction below a specified vortex. The modifications resulted in a more flexible model in which hurricane intensity was controlled by sensible and latent heat fluxes, which were in turn dependent on the ocean surface temperature. A boundary layer model based on similarity theory was then used, to specify air-sea interaction, by replacing the bulk transfer formulas with Cardones 1969 extension of Blackadars 1965 two-layer neutral, baroclinic boundary layer model. Author

Descriptors:

• (*TROPICAL CYCLONES
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS)
• OCEAN WAVES
• SURFACES
• TEMPERATURE
• CONVECTION(ATMOSPHERIC)
• CORIOLIS EFFECT
• HEAT TRANSFER
• BOUNDARY LAYER
• HUMIDITY
• PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
• CURVE FITTING
• GRAPHICS
• THESES

Subject Categories:

• Meteorology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE