8.1      Mass flux divergence in a Hurricane.

 

Huang, Wei, Hewlett Packard Enterprises

 

Mass flux divergence is calculated with WRF output data for hurricane Irma. By vertical integrating the continuity equation, we find that the vertical integrated mass/density flux divergence is quite different to the density tendency. Further invest found that precipitation is close linked to the mass flux density, and a new continuity equation is proposed.