| タイトル | Entrainment of Upper Level Dry Air into Hurricane Earl |
| 著者（英） | Hood, Robbie E.; Guillory, Anthony R.; Atkinson, Robert J.; Jedlovee, Gary J.; LaFontaine, Frank J. |
| 著者所属（英） | NASA Marshall Space Flight Center |
| 発行日 | 2000-01-01 |
| 言語 | eng |
| 内容記述 | Hurricane Earl developed from a tropical wave that moved into the Gulf of Mexico, which triggered abundant convection. On 1 Sept. 1998, the wave was upgraded directly to a tropical storm. Earl reached hurricane status the next morning. The system moved erratically as it interacted with an upper level short wave trough rotating around a long wave trough to the northeast. The storm made landfall near 0600 UTC on 3 September near Panama City, FL. During August and September 1998, NASA conducted the Third Convection and Moisture Experiment (CAMEX-3). It focused on studying the intensity, track, and impacts at landfall of hurricanes. On the afternoon of 2 September 1998, the NASA ER2 high-altitude aircraft flying at 65,000 feet in tandem with the NASA DC-8 flying at 35,000 feet flew over and through, respectively, the eastern rainbands of Earl near the Florida Panhandle as the storm neared landfall in the region. Two approaches to studying Earl are undertaken here: first, an examination of the source and height of the dry air region using GOES-8 water vapor data and, second, a look into the impact of the dry air entrainment on the system using aircraft remote sensing data. |
| NASA分類 | Meteorology and Climatology |
| 権利 | Copyright |
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