The role of the environmental flow in the development of secondary frontal cyclones

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 123, Issue 542, 1997, Pages 1653-1675

  Renfrew, Ian A ^a   Thorpe, Alan J ^b   Bishop, Craig H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barotropic development; Deformation; Frontogenesis; Vorticity attribution

Indexed keywords

CYCLONE; VORTICITY;

CYCLONE; VORTICITY;

EID: 0031391455     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.54209     Document Type: Article

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