The essential ingredients leading to the explosive growth stage of the European wind storm Lothar of Christmas 1999

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 648, 2010, Pages 638-652

  Riviere G ^a   Arbogast, P ^a   Maynard, K ^b   Joly, A ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b Météo France   (France)

Author keywords

Extratropical wind storm; Jet exit; PV inversion

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINICITY; CHRISTMAS; EXPLOSIVE GROWTH; EXTRATROPICAL WIND STORM; EXTRATROPICAL WINDS; HEATING PROCESS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LOW FREQUENCY; MOIST PROCESS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL SENSITIVITY; OPERATIONAL MODEL; PHYSICAL PROCESS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY INVERSIONS; RAPID INTENSIFICATION; STORM LOTHAR; SURFACE CYCLONE; VERTICAL COUPLING; WHOLE PROCESS;

EXPERIMENTS; EXPLOSIVES; HEATING;

STORMS;

ADIABATIC PROCESS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BAROCLINIC MODE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLONE; HUMIDITY; JET FLOW; LATENT HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STORM; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

EUROPE;

EID: 77953034926     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.585     Document Type: Article

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