Accession Number:

ADA010854

Title:

Quantitative Evaluation of the 'Self-Development' Process in Extratropical Cyclogenesis.

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis,

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CALIF

Personal Author(s):

• Folker,Cecil Jackson

Report Date:

1975-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

69.0

Abstract:

The objective of this study is to assess quantitatively the process of self-development in extratropical cyclogenesis. The basic approach is to determine within the framework of the quasi-geostrophic equations the contributions of thermal advection and latent heat release to changes occurring in the intensification rate of a surface cyclone which result from modifying the field of vorticity advection. The relevant concepts and equations are applied to a major cyclone over the central United States and to a structurally simple analytic model of a cyclonic disturbance for which varying horizontal and vertical distributions of latent heat release are prescribed.

Descriptors:

• *ATMOSPHERIC MOTION
• *TROPICAL CYCLONES
• HEAT TRANSFER
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• UNITED STATES
• THESES
• VORTICES
• COOLING
• LATENT HEAT
• HEATING
• CONVERGENCE
• PATTERNS
• TROPOSPHERE
• ADVECTION

Subject Categories:

• Meteorology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE