Potential vorticity inversion of a two-dimensional steady flow: Application to symmetric instability

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 124, Issue 545, 1998, Pages 317-339

  Arbogast, Philippe ^a,b   Joly, Alain ^a  

^a CNRM/GMME ^*

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Frontal structure; Mesoscale rolls; Negative potential vorticity; Variational PV inversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000141335     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.49712454514     Document Type: Article

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