Quantitative relationship between meteosat WV data and positive potential vorticity anomalies: A case study over the Mediterranean

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 97-109

  Georgiev, Christo G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ISOBARIC SURFACES; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; NUMERICAL OUTPUT; POSITIVE POTENTIAL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

VORTICITY;

CYCLOGENESIS; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; METEOSAT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 0039784244     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482799001024     Document Type: Article

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