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

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