Tseng, S., K., Lu, C., Wu, C., Chen, submitted to JGR-A: The Dependence of Moist Vortex Intensification on Convection-Induced Moisture Distribution and Low-level Inflow: Insights for Tropical Cyclone Seed Genesis. September 12, 2025.
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 Lu, K., D. R. Chavas, D. Kim, J, Moon, submitted to JGR-A: The Structural Differences between developing and Non-developing Tropical Cyclone Seeds. August, 25, 2025 https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.175611358.85305729/v1

 Lu, K., D. R. Chavas, and D. Wang, 2024: The structural compactness of a tropical cyclone seed affects its persistence. J. Atmos. Sci.,  https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-23-0149.1

 Lu, K., and D. R. Chavas, 2022: Tropical Cyclone Size Is Strongly Limited by the Rhines Scale: Experiments with a Barotropic Model. J. Atmos. Sci., 79, 2109–2124, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0224.1.

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