Effects of environmental flow on the internal dynamics of tropical cyclones, The
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Abstract
This dissertation focuses on two projects that examine the interaction between the internal dynamics of tropical cyclones and the large-scale environmental flow using a hierarchy of numerical model simulations. Diabatic heating from deep moist convection in the hurricane eyewall produces a towering annular structure of elevated potential vorticity (PV) called a hollow PV tower. For the first project, the three-dimensional rearrangement of hurricane-like hollow PV towers is examined in an idealized framework. For the adiabatic PV tower in the absence of environmental flow, barotropic instability ...
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