The contribution of ex-tropical cyclone gert (1999) toward the weakening of a midlatitude cyclogenesis event

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2091-2111

  Agustí Panareda, Anna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STORMS; TROPICS; VELOCITY;

EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; EXTRATROPICAL STORMS; EXTRATROPICAL TRANSITION; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MESOSCALE VORTICES; MET OFFICE ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

HURRICANES;

COLD FRONT; CYCLOGENESIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; PREDICTION; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; TRANSITION ZONE; TRIGGER MECHANISM; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTICITY; WARM FRONT; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 49749090127     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR1637.1     Document Type: Article

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