Intense Atmospheric Vortices: Proceedings of the Joint Symposium (IUTAM/IUGG) held at Reading (United Kingdom) July 14–17, 1981 (Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences)

Front Matter....Pages I-XII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Tropical Cyclone Genesis and Intensification....Pages 3-20 On Basic Problems in Theory and Modeling of the Tropical Cyclone....Pages 21-34 On the Structure of Hurricanes as Revealed by Research Aircraft Data....Pages 35-49 Lagrangian Angular Momentum Transports in Tropical Cyclones....Pages 51-59 Numerical Analyses on the Activities of Intense Atmospheric Vortices (Typhoons) Over China....Pages 61-69 Influence of Environmental Conditions on the Genesis of a Tropical Storm....Pages 71-79 Model Development of Atlantic Hurricanes from Prehurricane Cloud Clusters, Depressions and Cyclones....Pages 81-94 The Numerical Experiment on the Contribution of Landed Typhoon to the Rainfall in North China....Pages 95-103 Estimation of Radial Distribution of Eddy Viscosity in a Mature Hurricane....Pages 105-110 Spontaneously Growing Hurricanelike Disturbances in a Simple Baroclinic Model with Latent Heat Release....Pages 111-129 The Factors Determining Radial Flow and Eye Formation in an Intensifying Tropical Cyclone....Pages 131-146 Front Matter....Pages 147-147 The Development and Maintenance of Rotation in Convective Storms....Pages 149-160 Cumulus Rotation: Model and Observations of a Waterspout-bearing Cloud System....Pages 161-173 Observational and Theoretical Aspects of Tornadogenesis....Pages 175-189 High Resolution Numerical Simulations of the Tornadic Region Within a Mature Thunderstorm....Pages 191-203 Numerical Studies of Tornado Structure and Genesis....Pages 205-213 A Numerical Simulation of Multiple Vortices....Pages 215-228 The Laboratory Modelling of Atmospheric Vortices: A Critical Review....Pages 229-246 Vortex Breakdown and the Criterion for Its Occurence....Pages 247-258 Pressure Fields Beneath Tornado-like Vortices....Pages 259-270 Front Matter....Pages 147-147 Convection and Mixing at High Rossby Numbers in Rotating Systems....Pages 271-283 Intense Vortex Generation by Turbulence in a Rotating Fluid....Pages 285-297 Laboratory Models of Tornado-like Vortices....Pages 299-312 High Vorticity Regions in Rotating Thermally Driven Flows....Pages 313-326