A case study of tropopause cyclogenesis

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 187-199

  van Delden, Aarnout ^a   Neggers, Roel ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; STORMS;

ABSOLUTE VORTICITY; ISENTROPIC ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM INTENSITIES; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH; VORTEX STRETCHING;

VORTICITY;

AIRFLOW; BAROCLINIC MOTION; CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONE; FRONTOGENESIS; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SHEAR; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 55249105716     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482703002081     Document Type: Article

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