Piecewise potential vorticity inversion: Elementary tests

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2015-2024

  Egger, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; OCEAN CURRENTS; TESTING; VORTICITY;

AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); ANALYTIC SOLUTIONS; APPLIED (CO); BAROCLINIC WAVES; BAROTROPIC; FAR FIELDS; IN ORDER; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; PIECEWISE POTENTIAL VORTICITY (PV) INVERSION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY (PV); ROSSBY WAVES; SUB DOMAINS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES;

WAVES;

BAROCLINIC WAVE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVE; SHEAR FLOW; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 45849107289     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2564.1     Document Type: Article

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