The role of shearwise and transverse quasigeostrophic vertical motions in the midlatitude cyclone life cycle

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1174-1193

  Martin, Jonathan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; LIFE CYCLE; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; STORMS; TROPOSPHERE;

LOWER-TROPOSPHERIC CYCLONE; MIDLATITUDE CYCLONE LIFE CYCLE; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC VERTICAL MOTIONS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONE; LIFE CYCLE; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; STORM; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

EID: 33646442495     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3114.1     Document Type: Article

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