Warm conveyor belts in idealized moist baroclinic wave simulations

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 627-652

  Schemm, Sebastian ^a   Wernli, Heini ^a   Papritz, Lukas ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Baroclinic flows; Diabatic heating; Extratropical cyclones; Potential vorticity; Trajectories; Vertical motion

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC FLOWS; DIABATIC HEATING; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; VERTICAL MOTIONS;

BELT CONVEYORS; KINETICS; TRAJECTORIES; TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY;

STORMS;

AMPLITUDE; BAROCLINIC MOTION; BAROCLINIC WAVE; CYCLOGENESIS; DIABATIC PROCESS; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; FORMATION MECHANISM; JET STREAM; KINETIC ENERGY; LATENT HEAT FLUX; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE MODELING; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 84874958686     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-0147.1     Document Type: Article

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