Conceptual models of upper-level frontogenesis in south-westerly and north-westerly flow

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 125, Issue 559, 1999, Pages 2535-2562

  Schultz, David M ^a   Doswell III, Charles A ^b  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Atmospheric dynamics; Fronts; Shapiro effect

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; CYCLONE; METEOROLOGY; VORTICITY;

ADVECTION; FRONTOGENESIS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; VORTICITY;

EID: 0033372828     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.55909     Document Type: Article

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