Using piecewise potential vorticity inversion to diagnose frontogenesis. Part I: A partitioning of the Q vector applied to diagnosing surface frontogenesis and vertical motion

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2796-2821

  Morgan, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRONTOGENESIS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; WIND FIELD;

EID: 0033507339     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<2796:UPPVIT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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