Potential vorticity diagnosis of the severe convective regime. Part II: The impact of idealized PV anomalies

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1582-1592

  Nielsen Gammon, John W ^a   Gold, David A ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PPM Energy Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TORNADOES; TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY;

NONLINEAR BALANCE EQUATIONS; STREAMFUNCTION ANOMALIES; UPPER-TROPOSPHERIC JET STREAM;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ERROR ANALYSIS; JET; NUMERICAL METHOD; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SEVERE WEATHER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TORNADO; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 44949207515     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2091.1     Document Type: Article

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