A simple kinematic source of skewness in atmospheric flow fields

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 578-590

  Luxford, Fay ^a   Woollings, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Jets; Statistics; Stochastic models

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; CUT-OFF LOW; DYNAMICAL FEATURES; FLOW VARIABLE; GAUSSIANS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; HIGHER MOMENTS; JET STREAMS; KINEMATIC MODEL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL BEHAVIORS; REANALYSIS; SIMPLE STOCHASTIC; UNDERLYING DYNAMICS; WIND PROFILES; ZONAL WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DYNAMICS; JETS; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

KINEMATICS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOPOTENTIAL; JET STREAM; KINEMATICS; SKEWNESS; STOCHASTICITY; WIND FIELD; WIND PROFILE;

EID: 84857227211     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-089.1     Document Type: Article

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