Multi-event analysis of the westerly Greenland tip jet based upon 45 winters in ERA-40

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 645, 2009, Pages 1999-2011

  Våge, Kjetil ^a,b   Spengler, Thomas ^b   Davies, Huw C ^b   Pickart, Robert S ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cyclone; Greenland; Irminger sea; Jet stream; Tip jet

Indexed keywords

AIR PARCELS; CHARACTERISTIC DEFLECTION; CONTINENTAL ORIGIN; DATA SETS; EVENT ANALYSIS; FLOW EVOLUTION; GREENLAND; ICELANDICS; JET STREAMS; NAO INDEX; PEAK WIND SPEED; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; REANALYSIS; SURFACE CYCLONE; TIP JET; TRAJECTORY MODELS; WINTER SEASONS;

HYDRAULICS; STORMS;

JETS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CYCLONE; DATA SET; HEAT FLUX; JET STREAM; LEE WAVE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SATELLITE DATA; WESTERLY; WINTER;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CAPE FAREWELL; EGGER ISLAND; GREENLAND; IRMINGER SEA;

EID: 74849135254     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.488     Document Type: Article

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