Summary
The horizontal dimension of a typhoon is dynamically considered by applying Charney-Eliassen's model to the synoptic structure of a typhoon from the viewpoint of evolution, where a tropical cyclone is to evolve from a pre-typhoon depression system (a tropical vortex in the text meaning the mother body of a typhoon) into a typhoon by the spontaneous outbreak of a violent wind system (a typhoon vortex in the text meaning the virtual entity of a typhoon) in the inner region of the pre-typhoon system. A pre-typhoon system has the inner region of rotation of about 200 km radius while a violent wind system has that of about 50 km radius for each own system. It is concluded that the radius of the inner region of a pre-typhoon system is subject to the Coriolis parameter while that of a violent wind system to the relative vorticity of the pre-typhoon system, and that a system having the inner region of about 50 km radius can not break out in the field of the Coriolis parameter in tropical latitudes but only in the field of relative vorticity higher than the Coriolis parameter by one figure, supporting the evolutional hypothesis.
Zusammenfassung
Die horizontale Ausdehnung eines Taifuns wird in dynamischer Hinsicht auf Grund des von Charney und Eliassen ausgearbeiteten Modells der Entwicklung der synoptischen Struktur eines Taifuns untersucht, wonach eine tropische Zyklone sich aus einem Depressionssystem zu einem Taifun durch das spontane Aufkommen eines Systems heftiger Winde in der inneren Region des dem Taifun vorangehanden Systems entwickelt. Im Text wird mit „tropischer Wirbel” das Ausgangssystem des Taifuns und mit „Taifun-Wirbel” der vollentwickelte Taifun bezeichnet. Das dem eigentlichen Taifun vorausgehende Anfangssystem hat ein inneres Rotationsgebiet mit einem Radius von ungefähr 200 km, während das Starkwindsystem im entwickelten Taifun einen Radius von ungefähr 50 km hat. Es wird gefolgert, daß der Radius der inneren Region des Vortaifun-Systems der Wirkung des Coriolisparameters unterworfen ist, während der des Starkwindsystems von der relativen Vorticity des Vortaifun-Systems abhängt, ferner, daß ein System mit einer inneren Region von etwa 50 km Radius sich als Wirkung des Coriolisparameters in tropischen Breiten nicht entwickeln kann, sondern nur im Feld der relativen Vorticity, welches dort um eine Größenordnung größer ist als der Coriolisparameter, wodurch die Entwicklungshypothese gestütt wird.
Résumé
La dimension horizontale d'un typhon est considérée dynamiquement en appliquant le modèle de Charney-Eliassen à la structure synoptique d'un typhon au point de vue de l'évolution: un cyclone tropical est évolué d'un système de la dépression pré-typhonique (un vortex tropical dans le texte signifiant la matrice d'un typhon) un typhon par suite de la naissance spontanée d'un système du vent violent (un vortex typhonique dans le texte significant l'entité virtuelle d'un typhon) dans la région intérieure du système pré-typhonique. Un système pré-typhonique à la région intérieure de la rotation du rayon d'environ 200 km tandis qu'un système du vent violent à la région d'environ 50 km pour le système même respectivement. C'est conclu que le rayon de la région intérieure est sujet au paramètre de Coriolis en cas d'un système pré-typhonique, tandis que le rayon dans un système du vent violent à la vorticité relative du système pré-typhonique, et par surcroît qu'un système ayant la région intérieure du rayon de environ 50 km ne peut pas se former dans le champ du paramètre de Coriolis aux latitudes tropicales mais seulement dans le champ de la vorticité relative plus haute que le paramètre de Coriolis d'un chiffre, supportant l'hypothèse évolutionale.
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Matano, H., Sekioka, M. On the dynamical consequence of the horizontal dimension of a typhoon. Arch. Met. Geoph. Biokl. A. 23, 29–54 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02245553
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