Filamentation time diagnosis of thinning troughs and cutoff lows

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2327-2335

  Tsai, Yu Ming ^a   Kuo, Hung Chi ^a   Schubert, Wayne H ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; Dynamics; Mesoscale processes; Potential vorticity; Synoptic scale processes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CURVATURE EFFECT; CUT-OFF LOW; FILAMENTATION; HORIZONTAL PLANES; ISENTROPIC; ISENTROPIC SURFACES; MESOSCALE; MIDLATITUDES; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SHEARING DEFORMATION; SPHERICAL COORDINATES; THINNING PROCESS; TIME ANALYSIS; VELOCITY GRADIENTS; VERTICAL DIRECTION;

CLIMATOLOGY; VORTICITY;

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 77955587474     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3102.1     Document Type: Article

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