Applying the relationship between potential vorticity fields and water vapour imagery to adjust initial conditions in NWP

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 221-228

  Swarbrick, S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STORMS; VORTICITY; WATER VAPOR;

CASE-STUDIES; DYNAMICAL BALANCE; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MODEL FORECASTS; NORTH ATLANTIC; OPERATIONAL USE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; TEMPERATURE INCREMENT;

FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CYCLONE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; METEOSAT; MOISTURE CONTENT; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 0038028702     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482701002109     Document Type: Article

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