A potential vorticity diagnostic approach to upper-level frontogenesis within a developing baroclinic wave

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 3918-3938

  Wandishin, M S ^a   Nielsen Gammon, J W ^a   Keyser, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BAROCLINIC WAVE; FRONTOGENESIS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; TROPOPAUSE;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; STORMS; SURFACE WAVES; VORTEX FLOW; WIND;

BAROCLINIC WAVE; NONDIVERGENT CYCLONIC CIRCULATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH; SURFACE THERMAL WAVE; TROPOPAUSE FOLDING; UPPER LEVEL FRONTOQENESIS;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0034351748     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2001)058<3918:APVDAT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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