Subject Code: CL5L411 Subject Name: Dynamics of Tropical Cyclones L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3  
Pre-requisite(s):  Nil
Tropical cyclone classification, complexity of tropical cyclone motion from a wide variety of external and internal dynamical forcing and their interaction, large-scale environmental flow, the axially symmetric circulation of the tropical cyclone, planetary vorticity (or ambient potential vorticity) gradient, processes involved in the binary cyclone interaction, trochoidal motion, the lower boundary forcing, large-scale steering, tropical cyclone movement in association with complex interaction of large-scale steering, track deflection relative to the environmental flow
Text/Reference Books:
  1. R. A. Anthes: Tropical cyclones: Their evolution, structure and effects,American Meteorological Society.
  2. Elsberry. A global view of tropical cyclones,  Office Of Naval Research
  3. Stephen Guimond . Tropical Cyclone Inner-Core Dynamics: A Latent Heat Retrieval and Its Effects on Intensity and Structure Change; And the Impacts of Effective Diffusion, UMI Dissertation Publishing