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Michael T. Montgomery
Researcher at Naval Postgraduate School
Publications - 263
Citations - 15463
Michael T. Montgomery is an academic researcher from Naval Postgraduate School. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tropical cyclone & Vortex. The author has an hindex of 68, co-authored 258 publications receiving 14231 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael T. Montgomery include National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration & Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
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A Vortical Hot Tower Route to Tropical Cyclogenesis.
TL;DR: In this paper, a nonhydrostatic cloud model is used to examine the thermomechanics of tropical cyclogenesis under realistic meteorological conditions, and the authors demonstrate that small-scale cumulonimbus towers possessing intense cyclonic vorticity in their cores [vortical hot towers (VHTs)] emerge as the preferred coherent structures.
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A theory for vortex rossby-waves and its application to spiral bands and intensity changes in hurricanes
TL;DR: In this article, the physics of vortex axisymmetrization was examined further, with the goal of elucidating the dynamics of outward-propagating spiral bands in hurricanes.
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The Role of “Vortical” Hot Towers in the Formation of Tropical Cyclone Diana (1984)
TL;DR: In this article, a 3-km horizontal grid spacing near-cloud-resolving numerical simulation of the formation of Hurricane Diana (1984) is used to examine the contribution of deep convective processes to tropical cyclone formation.
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Polygonal Eyewalls, Asymmetric Eye Contraction, and Potential Vorticity Mixing in Hurricanes
Wayne H. Schubert,Michael T. Montgomery,Richard K. Taft,Thomas A. Guinn,Scott R. Fulton,James P. Kossin,James P. Edwards +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the asymmetric vorticity dynamics of the hurricane's eye and eyewall region under the framework of an unforced barotropic non-gradient model.
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Tropical cyclogenesis in a tropical wave critical layer: easterly waves
TL;DR: In this paper, the development of tropical depression within tropical waves over the Atlantic and eastern Pacific is usually preceded by a "surface low along the wave" as if to suggest a hybrid wave-vortex structure in which flow streamlines not only undulate with the waves, but form a closed circulation in the lower troposphere surrounding the low.