Interaction of potential vorticity anomalies in extratropical cyclogenesis. Part I: Static piecewise inversion

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2546-2561

  Huo, Zonghui ^a   Zhang, Da Lin ^b   Gyakum, John R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY; CYCLOGENESIS; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; POTENTIAL VORTICITY;

EID: 0033384916     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<2546:iopvai>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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