supported by the State 973 Program (2009CB421505);supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40405012, 40830958 and 40705024);the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2005DIB3J104);Shanghai Meteorological Bureau (Grant Nos. 2009ST11, MS200821)
An observational analysis of satellite blackbody temperature (TBB) data and radar images suggests that the mesoscale vortex generation and merging process appeared to be essential for a tropical-depression-related h...