Climatology of storm reports relative to upper-level jet streaks

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1032-1051

  Clark, Adam J ^a   Schaffer, Christopher J ^a   Gallus Jr , William A ^a   Johnson O'mara, Kaj ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE FIELDS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DIVERGENCE FIELD; ENTRANCE REGION; FOUR QUADRANT; JET AXIS; JET STREAKS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPERATIONAL FORECASTERS; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; SEVERE WEATHER; TEMPORAL TRENDS; VERTICAL CIRCULATION; VERTICAL MOTIONS; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS; TORNADOES; VEHICULAR TUNNELS;

JETS;

ANTICYCLONE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATOLOGY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FORECASTING METHOD; HAIL; JET FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; SEVERE WEATHER; STORM; TORNADO; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 74549181893     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222216.1     Document Type: Article

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