Current understanding of tropical cyclone (TC) structure and intensity changes has been
reviewed in this article. Recent studies in this area tend to focus on two issues:(1) what …

A century ago, meteorologists regarded tropical cyclones as shallow vortices, extending
upward only a few kilometers into the troposphere, and nothing was known about their …

Mesoscale eddies contribute to the global oceanic energy budget and cascade; they induce
substantial mass and heat transport, thus playing a key role in the global climate system …

The development of tropical depressions within tropical waves over the Atlantic and eastern
Pacific is usually preceded by a" surface low along the wave" as if to suggest a hybrid wave …

Midlevel ventilation, or the flux of low-entropy air into the inner core of a tropical cyclone
(TC), is a hypothesized mechanism by which environmental vertical wind shear can …

Composite analysis is used to examine environmental and climatology and persistence
characteristics of tropical cyclones (TCs) undergoing different intensity changes in the …

A new paradigm for the resiliency of tropical cyclone (TC) vortices in vertical shear flow is
presented. To elucidate the basic dynamics, the authors follow previous work and consider …

Recent theoretical studies, based on vortex Rossby wave (VRW) dynamics, have
established the importance of the radial structure of the primary circulation in the response of …

The sensitivity of tropical cyclone intensity to ventilation of cooler, drier air into the inner core
is examined using an axisymmetric tropical cyclone model with parameterized ventilation …

The multiscale nature of tropical cyclone (TC) intensity change under moderate vertical wind
shear was explored through an ensemble of high-resolution simulations of Hurricane …