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Air-Sea Turbulent Flux Parameterizations in Tropical Cyclone Models

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Advanced Numerical Modeling and Data Assimilation Techniques for Tropical Cyclone Prediction

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This chapter is the last of the three-lecture series on the physical processes that are accounted for in numerical models of tropical cyclones. There are two sections in this chapter. Section 1 is intended to provide an overview of the physical processes required to be included in TC models near the air-sea interface under tropical cyclones, and Section 2 presents results from a recent study on the sensitivity of simulated TC intensification to parameterized physical processes. Materials presented in Section 1 are derived from an overview book chapter by Bao et al. (2002), while those presented in Section 2 are based on Bao et al. (2011).

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The author acknowledges NOAA’s Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project that supported this work. The author acknowledges the support provided by Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, and various national and international collaborators who have helped improving the operational HWRF model.

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    Sundararaman G. Gopalakrishnan

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Bao, JW. (2016). Air-Sea Turbulent Flux Parameterizations in Tropical Cyclone Models. In: Mohanty, U.C., Gopalakrishnan, S.G. (eds) Advanced Numerical Modeling and Data Assimilation Techniques for Tropical Cyclone Prediction. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-94-024-0896-6_6

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