Stratosphere-troposphere exchange and its relation to potential vorticity streamers and cutoffs near the extratropical tropopause

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1587-1602

  Sprenger, Michael ^a   Wernli, Heini ^b   Bourqui, Michel ^c  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ISENTROPIC SURFACES; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE EXCHANGE; STRATOSPHERIC STREAMERS; TROPOSPHERIC STREAMERS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DATA SET; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; TROPOPAUSE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34250016103     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3911.1     Document Type: Article

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