A Lagrangian-based analysis of extratropical cyclones. I: The method and some applications

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 123, Issue 538, 1997, Pages 467-489

  Wernli, Heini ^a   Davies, Huw C ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Lagrangian climatology; North atlantic cyclogenesis; Potential vorticity anomalies; Trajectory ensemble; Tropopause stratosphere exchange

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE; CYCLONE; VORTICITY;

CYCLONE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; TRAJECTORY; TROPOSPHERE/STRATOSPHERE EXCHANGE;

EID: 0031450396     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.53810     Document Type: Article

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