Life-cycle simulations of shallow frontal waves and the impact of deformation strain

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 620, 2006, Pages 2171-2190

  Dacre, H F ^a,b   Gray, S L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Meteorology ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barotropic growth; Potential vorticity strip; Secondary cyclogenesis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; STORMS; STRAIN RATE; VORTEX FLOW;

BAROTROPIC GROWTH; DEFORMATION STRAIN; POTENTIAL-VORTICITY STRIP; SECONDARY CYCLOGENESIS; SHALLOW FRONTAL WAVES;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; BAROTROPIC WAVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLOGENESIS; FRONTAL FEATURE; FRONTOGENESIS; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; STRAIN RATE;

EID: 33751513787     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.238     Document Type: Article

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