The structure and evolution of lower stratospheric frontal zones. Part 1: Examples in northwesterly and southwesterly flow

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 666, 2012, Pages 1350-1365

  Lang, Andrea A ^a   Martin, Jonathan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Frontal zones; Lower stratosphere; Tilting frontogenesis; Tropopause

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINICITY; COLD AIR; COLD FRONT; CYCLONIC SHEAR; FRONTAL ZONES; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; STATE VARIABLES; TILTING FRONTOGENESIS; TROPOPAUSE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL MOTIONS; WARM AIR;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; SUBSIDENCE;

TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; COLD FRONT; FRONTOGENESIS; JET FLOW; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE; WESTERLY;

EID: 84864283938     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.843     Document Type: Article

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