The dynamics of heat lows in simple background flows

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 612, 2005, Pages 3147-3165

  Spengler, Thomas ^a,b   Reeder, M J ^c   Smith, R K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Deformation; Frontogenesis; Heat trough; Inertial turning; Low level jet

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DEFORMATION; DYNAMICS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT FLUX; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BACKGROUND FLOWS; FRONTOGENESIS; HEAT LOWS; HEAT TROUGH; INERTIAL TURNING; LOW-LEVEL JET;

METEOROLOGY;

AIR MASS; FRONTOGENESIS; JET FLOW; WARM FRONT;

EID: 31944452501     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.177     Document Type: Article

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