The basic ingredients of the North Atlantic storm track. Part I: Land-Sea contrast and orography

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2539-2558

  Brayshaw, David James ^a   Hoskins, Brian ^a   Blackburn, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE MODELS; BAROCLINICITY; COLD POOL; EURASIA; FORCINGS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LARGE-SCALE FLOWS; MIDLATITUDES; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTH ATLANTIC; PHYSICAL PROCESS; REALISTIC MODELING; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; STORM TRACK; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TIME-SCALES; TRIANGULAR SHAPES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; LANDFORMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

STORMS;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE FORCING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; JET STREAM; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY; STORM TRACK; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE; WESTERLY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 73549099789     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3078.1     Document Type: Article

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