The Role of “Vortical” Hot Towers in the Formation of Tropical Cyclone Diana (1984)

By E. Hendricks, M. Montgomery, Christopher A. Davis. 2004

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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In Atmospheric Science

1. M. Montgomery
2. Roger K. Smith
3. R. Houze
4. R. Rogers
5. Jun A. Zhang
6. P. Reasor
7. Nguyen Van Sang
8. T. Dunkerton

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Roger K. Smith
2. M. Montgomery
3. R. Houze
4. Nguyen Van Sang
5. R. Rogers
6. Jun A. Zhang
7. P. Reasor
8. T. Dunkerton

In Oceanography

1. M. Montgomery
2. Roger K. Smith
3. R. Houze
4. R. Rogers
5. Jun A. Zhang
6. P. Reasor
7. Stephen R. Guimond
8. Gerald M. Heymsfield

Citations in the corpus

• Convective-Scale Structure and Evolution during a High-Resolution Simulation of Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification (2010, background): “13 are generally located near regions of enhanced positive and negative PV, suggesting that these features are generating PV anomalies and are related to vortical hot towers (VHTs; Hendricks et al. 2004; Montgomery et al. 2006).”
• Tropical cyclogenesis in a tropical wave critical layer: easterly waves (2008, background): “Whereas in a mature system, vertical shear interacts with a single large vortex, in genesis, the shear is interacting with one or more deep convecting elements, rotating or not (Frank and Johnson, 1969; Gentry et al., 1970; Hendricks et al., 2004; M06; Hendricks and Montgomery 2006).”
• Clouds in Tropical Cyclones (2010, background): “…eventually sheared apart by the radial gradient of the vortex wind and mixed into the mean flow around the low in a process of axisymmetrization.4 Hendricks et al. (2004) and Montgomery et al. (2006) present evidence from a model that the axisymmetrization process distributes subsynoptic-scale…”
• Multiscale Structure and Evolution of Hurricane Earl (2010) during Rapid Intensification (2015, background): “…Zhang 2013; Zhang and Chen 2012; Guimond et al. 2010; Heymsfield et al. 2001) and to the stretching and subsequent axisymmetrization of low-level vorticity collocated with the updraft in vortical hot towers (VHTs; Houze et al. 2009; Reasor et al. 2009; Montgomery et al. 2006;Hendricks et al. 2004).”
• Recent Developments in the Fluid Dynamics of Tropical Cyclones (2017, unknown): “…& Waugh 1992, Lansky et al. 1997), vortex axisymmetrization processes (Melander et al. 1988, Montgomery & Enagonio 1998), and diabatic modifications thereof (Hendricks et al. 2004, Tory et al. 2006), certainly contribute to the consolidation and upscale growth of cyclonic vorticity within the loop.”
• Multiscale Observations of Hurricane Dennis (2005): The Effects of Hot Towers on Rapid Intensification (2010, background): “…and/or penetrate the tropopause (‘‘hot towers’’ or HTs) in the tropical atmosphere, including TCs (Riehl and Malkus 1958; Malkus and Riehl 1960; Gentry et al. 1970; Steranka et al. 1986; Simpson et al. 1998; Heymsfield et al. 2001; Kelley et al. 2004; Hendricks et al. 2004; Montgomery et al. 2006).”
• Tropical cyclone spin‐up revisited (2009, background): “The VHTs emerge from approximately 10.5 hours and are irregular and transient during the period from 12 to 36 hours.”
• Do tropical cyclones intensify by WISHE? (2009, background): “These vortical hot-plume structures are what have been referred to as vortical hot towers (Hendricks et al., 2004; Montgomery et al., 2006).”