A diagnostic study of the flateyri avalanche cyclone, 24-26 October 1995, using potential vorticity inversion

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 6 I, 1999, Pages 1072-1088

  Thorsteinsson, Sigurdur ^a   Kristjánsson, Jón Egill ^b   Røsting, Bjørn ^c   Erlingsson, Vidar ^a   Ulfarsson, Gudmundur Freyr ^d  

^a ICELANDIC METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^d University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE; CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY;

(NORTHWEST); ICELAND;

EID: 0344771108     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<1072:ADSOTF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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