The Structure of Idealized Upper-Tropospheric Shear Lines

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2830-2845

  Juckes, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COLD EFFECTS; ITERATIVE METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW; WIND EFFECTS;

BALANCED HYDROSTATIC PRIMITIVE EQUATION; ERTEL POTENTIAL VORTICITY; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC THEORY; TROPOPAUSE POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; TWO DIMENSIONAL SHEAR LINES;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SHEAR FLOW;

POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY NUMBER; SHEAR;

EID: 0033566486     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<2830:TSOIUT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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