The use of potential vorticity inversion to evaluate the effect of precipitation on downstream mesoscale processes

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 654, 2011, Pages 179-198

  Baxter, Martin A ^a   Schumacher, Philip N ^b   Boustead, Joshua M ^b  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold season precipitation; Diabatic effects; Frontogenesis; Midlatitude cyclones

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; COLD SEASON PRECIPITATION; DATA SETS; DIABATIC; FRONTOGENESIS; HIGH RESOLUTION; MESOSCALE PROCESS; MIDLATITUDE CYCLONES; MOISTURE FLUXES; NEAR-SURFACE; NESTED SIMULATION; NORTH AMERICAN; PERTURBATION POTENTIAL; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PIECE-WISE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY INVERSIONS; PRECIPITATION AREAS; REANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE PERTURBATIONS; WARM FRONTS; WIND FIELD;

MAINTENANCE; MOISTURE; RAIN; VORTICITY;

STORMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLONE; DIABATIC PROCESS; FRONTOGENESIS; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; MOISTURE FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND FIELD;

EID: 79251475939     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.730     Document Type: Article

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