Tropical Cyclone Microphysics Research
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Meteorology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2023) | Viewed by 334
Special Issue Editors
Interests: tropical cyclones; remote sensing; cloud microphysics; atmospheric physics; precipitation vertical structure
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Interests: heat flux; tropical cyclones; forecasting; atmospheric modeling
Interests: tropical meteorology; air–sea interaction; weather and climate extremes; mesoscale vortex
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Interests: precipitation; atmospheric radiation; cloud; life cycle
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Tropical cyclones (TCs), which develop over warm tropical oceans, are among the most destructive natural phenomena. However, the ability to forecast TC has improved modestly in recent years. A TC is a complex system, and is affected by various dynamic and thermodynamic factors, including microphysics processes, which interact on different scales. Inadequate understanding of the TC microphysics processes, possibly because of the lack of high-precision observational data, is one of the main factors limiting the ability to predict TC intensity. Furthermore, there are numerous towering convective systems encircling tropical cyclones, which are responsible for the severest weather, including the strongest winds. In particular, severe convection (also known as hot towers) around the eyewall plays an important role in TC intensification, which should be attributed to TC dynamics. Therefore, research on TC dynamics and microphysics is crucial for TC forecasting.
In this Special Issue, we invite original and review articles to advance the understanding of TC dynamics and microphysics. Topics of interest for the Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
- New developments in theory;
- New developments in observation;
- Cloud microphysics in TCs;
- Precipitation microphysics in TC;
- Tropical cyclogenesis;
- Life cycle of TCs;
- Substructure and asymmetry of the eyewall;
- Rainbands and eyewall preplacement.
Dr. Yilun Chen
Dr. Shumin Chen
Prof. Dr. Weibiao Li
Dr. Aoqi Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- tropical cyclones
- cloud microphysics
- atmospheric physics
- air–sea interaction
- forecasting
- atmospheric modeling
- life cycle
- eyewall
- rainband
