The role of the equivalent blackbody temperature in the study of Atlantic Ocean tropical cyclones

Author:: Gentry, R. C.
Published:: Aug 1, 1983.
Physical Description:: 1 electronic document
Additional Creators:: Rodgers, E. B. and Steranka, J.

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Satellite measured equivalent blackbody temperatures of Atlantic Ocean tropical cyclones are used to investigate their role in describing the convection and cloud patterns of the storms and in predicting wind intensity. The high temporal resolution of the equivalent blackbody temperature measurements afforded with the geosynchronous satellite provided sequential quantitative measurements of the tropical cyclone which reveal a diurnal pattern of convection at the inner core during the early developmental stage; a diurnal pattern of cloudiness in the storm's outer circulation throughout the life cycle; a semidiurnal pattern of cloudiness in the environmental atmosphere surrounding the storms during the weak storm stage; an outward modulating atmospheric wave originating at the inner core; and long term convective bursts at the inner core prior to wind intensification.

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METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY

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Document ID: 19830026245.
Accession ID: 83N34516.
NASA-TM-85090.
NAS 1.15:85090.

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