An assessment of a Greenland lee cyclone during the Greenland Flow Distortion experiment: An observational approach

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 645, 2009, Pages 1968-1985

  Innes, Harold Mc ^a   Kristjánsson, Jón Egill ^a   Schyberg, Harald ^b   Røsting, Bjørn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

GFDex; PV inversion; Tropopause fold

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING; CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONE DEVELOPMENT; CYCLONE MODELS; DRY AIR; FLOW DISTORTION; FLOW SPLITTING; GREENLAND; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; LEE CYCLONES; LOW-LEVEL WINDS; MESOSCALE STRUCTURE; OROGRAPHIC FORCING; OZONE CONCENTRATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; TRAJECTORY CALCULATIONS; WEATHER CONDITIONS; WEST COAST;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLOUDS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; OZONE; RESEARCH AIRCRAFT;

STORMS;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CYCLONE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LEE CYCLOGENESIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; TROPOPAUSE; WIND VELOCITY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 74849124069     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.524     Document Type: Article

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