Frontal-wave development by interaction between a front and a cyclone: Application to FASTEX IOP 17

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 130, Issue 600 PART A, 2004, Pages 1675-1696

  Arbogast, Philippe ^a  

^a MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Barotropic vorticity; Cyclogenesis; Frontogenesis

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STORMS; VORTEX FLOW; WIND;

BAROCLINIC ZONES; BAROTROPIC MECHANISM; VORTICITY;

METEOROLOGY;

BAROTROPIC WAVE; CYCLOGENESIS; FASTEX; FRONTOGENESIS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 3242747369     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.01.213     Document Type: Article

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