Planetary waves, cyclogenesis, and the irregular breakdown of zonal motion over the North Atlantic

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3907-3917

  Roebber, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING; CYCLOGENESIS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; FLOW CONFIGURATIONS; FLOW RESPONSE; FLOW TRANSITIONS; FORECAST MODEL; GENERAL CIRCULATION; LOW FREQUENCY DYNAMICS; MODELING STUDIES; NORTH ATLANTIC; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; PLANETARY WAVES; POSTPROCESSORS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; REANALYSIS; SIMPLE MODEL; TRACKING DATA; WAVEBREAKING; ZONAL FLOWS;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PLANETARY WAVE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; WAVE BREAKING; ZONAL FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77649325185     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR3025.1     Document Type: Article

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