Baroclinic development within zonally-varying flows

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 626 A, 2007, Pages 1101-1112

  Schultz, David M ^a,c   Zhang, Fuqing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Confluence; Cyclone life cycles; Diffluence; Fronts

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STORMS; WIND;

BAROCLINIC WAVES; PRIMITIVE EQUATION; SHAPIRO-KEYSER CYCLONE MODEL; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

ANTICYCLONE; BAROCLINIC WAVE; CONFLUENCE; CYCLONE; FRONTOGENESIS; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; JET STREAM; PERTURBATION; TROPOSPHERE; WIND VELOCITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 34548236997     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.87     Document Type: Article

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