Southern extratropical cyclone behavior in ECMWF analyses during the FROST special observing periods

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 14, Issue 6 PART 1, 1999, Pages 878-891

  Simmonds, Ian ^a   Murray, Ross J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONE; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY; STORMS; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER SATELLITES;

EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONE; SPECIAL OBSERVING PERIODS (SOP);

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0033237228     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1999)014<0878:secbie>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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