The uses and limitations of contour advection as a techniquefor examining arctic vortex dynamics

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 15, 2001, Pages 2210-2221

  Baker, M N ^a   Cunnold, D M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; FLUID DYNAMICS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CONTOUR ADVECTION WITH SURGERY (CAS); ISENTROPIC POTENTIAL VORTICITY (PV);

VORTEX FLOW;

ADVECTION; METHODOLOGY; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 0035418236     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2001)058<2210:TUALOC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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