A modified approach to initialize an idealized extratropical cyclone within a mesoscale model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1614-1624

  Olson, Joseph B ^a   Colle, Brian A ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRY; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BAROCLINIC WAVE; CYCLONE STRUCTURE; MESOSCALE MODEL; SHEAR FUNCTION;

METEOROLOGY;

BAROCLINIC WAVE; CYCLONE; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; FRONTAL FEATURE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 34248392275     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3364.1     Document Type: Article

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