Intense Atmospheric Vortices : Proceedings of the Joint Symposium (IUTAM / IUGG) held at Reading (United Kingdom), July 14 - 17, 1981.

Tropical Cyclones.- Tropical Cyclone Genesis and Intensification.- On Basic Problems in Theory and Modeling of the Tropical Cyclone.- On the Structure of Hurricanes as Revealed by Research Aircraft Data.- Lagrangian Angular Momentum Transports in Tropical Cyclones.- Numerical Analyses on the Activities of Intense Atmospheric Vortices (Typhoons) Over China.- Influence of Environmental Conditions on the Genesis of a Tropical Storm.- Model Development of Atlantic Hurricanes from Prehurricane Cloud Clusters, Depressions and Cyclones.- The Numerical Experiment on the Contribution of Landed Typhoon to the Rainfall in North China.- Estimation of Radial Distribution of Eddy Viscosity in a Mature Hurricane.- Spontaneously Growing Hurricanelike Disturbances in a Simple Baroclinic Model with Latent Heat Release.- The Factors Determining Radial Flow and Eye Formation in an Intensifying Tropical Cyclone.- Tornadoes.- The Development and Maintenance of Rotation in Convective Storms.- Cumulus Rotation: Model and Observations of a Waterspout-Bearing Cloud System.- Observational and Theoretical Aspects of Tornadogenesis.- High Resolution Numerical Simulations of the Tornadic Region Within a Mature Thunderstorm.- Numerical Studies of Tornado Structure and Genesis.- A Numerical Simulation of Multiple Vortices.- The Laboratory Modelling of Atmospheric Vortices: a Critical Review.- Vortex Breakdown and the Criterion for its Occurrence.- Pressure Fields Beneath Tornado-like Vortices.- Convection and Mixing at High Rossby Numbers in Rotating Systems.- Intense Vortex Generation by Turbulence in a Rotating Fluid.- Laboratory Models of Tornado-like Vortices.- High Vorticity Regions in Rotating Thermally Driven Flows.