Using tropopause maps to diagnose midlatitude weather systems

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2555-2579

  Morgan, Michael C ^a   Nielsen Gammon, John W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOTION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0032468570     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<2555:UTMTDM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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