Conditional symmetric instability in sting-jet storms

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 659, 2011, Pages 1482-1500

  Gray, S L ^a   Martinez Alvarado O ^a   Baker, L H ^a   Clark, P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Explosive cyclogenesis; Moist potential vorticity; SCAPE; Shapiro Keyser cyclone

Indexed keywords

AIR PARCELS; CASE-STUDIES; CLOUD HEAD; CONDITIONAL SYMMETRIC INSTABILITIES; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; CONVEYOR BELTS; EXPLOSIVE CYCLOGENESIS; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; MESOSCALE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SCAPE; SEVERE STORMS; SHAPIRO-KEYSER CYCLONE; SURFACE WINDS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

BELT CONVEYORS; STABILITY; VORTICITY;

STORMS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CYCLOGENESIS; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; JET STREAM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; STORM; SYMMETRY; WIND;

EID: 80052550903     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.859     Document Type: Article

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