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An analytical study using a simplified form of the divergent barotropic vorticity equation was performed. The results show the importance of the change in the Coriolis parameter across the cyclone in determining cyclone motion.

The structure of the wind field of a tropical cyclone can be roughly described by three measurements: intensity (maximum wind), size (extent of the vortex), and strength (average wind speed of the vortex). This paper examines the climatology, structure and possible physical processes of tropical cyclones of different sizes.

Presents an eighteen-level axisymmetric primitive equation tropical cyclone model incorporating the Arakawa-Schubert (1974) spectral cumulus parameterization.

By combining surface, satellite, radar, and photographic data each scale of cyclone is investigated with emphasis on determining mechanisms by which they intensify or evolve, especially through scale interactions.

The net influence of sub-grid or smaller unresolvable scale processes (which cannot be directly detected from conventional observations) on the tangential momentum field in tropical cyclones has been calculated as a residual from the grid-scale momentum budgets of sixteen rawinsonde composite data sets.

To study the physical processes associated with early-stage tropical cyclone development vs. non-development, composite and individual case analyses were made of US Air Force northwestern Pacific 950 mb (̃1500 feet) aircraft "investigative" reconnaissance flights into tropical disturbances.

A global observational study of atmospheric conditions associated with tropical disturbance and storm development is presented.

This paper discusses one to two day future tropical cyclone intensity change from both a composite and an individual case point-of-view. Tropical cyclones occurring in the Gulf of Mexico during the period 1957-1977 form the primary data source.

The major storm through the Midwest during the period 26 January to 28 January, 1967 was investigated to determine the cause of the narrow belt of exceedingly heavy snowfall, and to illustrate the relationship between the broad scale air motion and the synoptic and mesoscale precipitation pattern.