A radius-depth model for midlatitude cyclones in reanalysis data and simulations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 646, 2010, Pages 50-60

  Schneidereit, Andrea ^a   Blender, Richard ^a   Fraedrich, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cyclone radius; Life cycles

Indexed keywords

BAND PASS; CLIMATE SCENARIOS; COMPOSITING; COUPLED ATMOSPHERE OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONE RADIUS; DEPTH MODELS; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; GEOSTROPHIC VORTICITY; GEOSTROPHIC WINDS; HEIGHT FIELDS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; MIDLATITUDE CYCLONES; REANALYSIS; SCENARIO SIMULATIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STORM TRACK; UNIVERSAL FUNCTIONS;

GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; VORTICITY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLOGENESIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; GEOPOTENTIAL; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTICITY;

EID: 77249131208     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.523     Document Type: Article

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