Sensitivity of short-range weather forecasts to local potential vorticity modifications

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 922-939

  Demirtas, Meral ^a,b   Thorpe, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b Turkish State Meteorological Service   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032744621     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<0922:SOSRWF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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