Use of potential vorticity fields, Meteosat water vapour imagery and pseudo water vapour images for evaluating numerical model behaviour

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 57-69

  Georgiev, Christo G ^a   Martín, Francisco ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (Bulgaria)

^b Cuidad Universitaria ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; NUMERICAL MODELS; WATER VAPOR;

ABSOLUTE VORTICITY; CYCLONIC DISTURBANCE; MEDITERRANEAN AREAS; MODELING BEHAVIOUR; NORTH ATLANTIC; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SYNTHETIC PRODUCTS; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

VORTICITY;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; METEOSAT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONALITY; STORM TRACK; WATER VAPOR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0042871378     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482701001050     Document Type: Article

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