The use of potential vorticity as an operational forecast tool

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 195-210

  Mansfield, D A ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FORECASTING;

MODELING BEHAVIOUR; OPERATIONAL FORECASTERS; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; OPERATIONAL FORECASTS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SMALL-SCALE MODELING; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; VERTICAL MOTIONS;

VORTICITY;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYCLOGENESIS; DETECTION METHOD; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 1542428601     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.5060030301     Document Type: Article

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