Identifying Rossby wave trains and quantifying their properties

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 140, Issue 679, 2014, Pages 384-396

  Glatt, Ilona ^a   Wirth, Volkmar ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic; Climatology; Envelope; Identification; Objects; Rossby wave trains; Statistic; Verification

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STATISTICS; VERIFICATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AUTOMATIC; ENVELOPE; MERIDIONAL WINDS; NOVEL DIAGNOSTICS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; OBJECTS; ROSSBY WAVE; USER-DEFINED PARAMETERS;

MECHANICAL WAVES;

CLIMATOLOGY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROSSBY WAVE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84896046564     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2139     Document Type: Article

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