Potential vorticity anomalies of the lowermost stratosphere: A 10-yr winter climatology

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1234-1249

  Kew, Sarah F ^a   Sprenger, Michael ^a   Davies, Huw C ^a  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anomalies; Climatology; Potential vorticity; Stratosphere; Winter cool season

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT ENVIRONMENT; CYCLOGENESIS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; ISENTROPIC SURFACES; LOWERMOST STRATOSPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; REANALYSIS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; TIME CHARACTERISTICS;

CLIMATOLOGY; VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CYCLOGENESIS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; STRATOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

EID: 77955546506     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR3193.1     Document Type: Article

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