Tropical-extratropical interactions over southern Africa: Three cases of heavy summer season rainfall

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2608-2623

  Hart, N C G ^a   Reason, C J C ^a   Fauchereau, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTSWANA; COMMON FEATURES; EXTRATROPICAL; EXTREME RAINFALL; HEAVY RAINFALL; LEADING EDGE; MIDLATITUDES; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; PLANETARY WAVES; POLEWARD MOISTURE TRANSPORT; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; SEMI-ARID REGION; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN; SUMMER SEASON; SYNOPTIC EVOLUTION; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; TROPICAL-EXTRATROPICAL INTERACTIONS; UPSTREAM WAVES; WAVEBREAKING;

ARID REGIONS; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS;

RAIN;

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; EXTREME EVENT; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; RAINFALL; SEMIARID REGION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPOSPHERE; TROUGH; WAVE BREAKING; WESTERLY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH); SOUTHERN AFRICA;

EID: 77958487654     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3070.1     Document Type: Article

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