Effects Of Cumulus Convection On Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones

Our objectives are a) To describe the detailed structure of the air flow in a mature hurricane, b) To understand the vertical force balance in the eye and the eyewall, c) To investigate the presence of supergradient flow in hurricanes and the underlying processes, d) To study the surface wind structures during landfall, e) To investigate the transformation of a cold-core continental mesovortex into a warm-core tropical storm over the warm ocean, f) To simulate the December 15 1992 cloud cluster during TOGA-COARE, and g) To study whether inhomogeneous distribution of cloud droplets can lead to spatial variablity in supersaturation to acclerate the broadening of marine cloud dropsize spectra.