Interaction of a tropical cyclone with a high-amplitude, midlatitude wave pattern: Waviness analysis, trough deformation and track bifurcation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 140, Issue 681, 2014, Pages 1362-1376

  Riemer, Michael ^a   Jones, Sarah C ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Filamentation time; Hyperbolic manifolds; Piecewise PV inversion; Tropical extratropical interaction; Wave breaking

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); DEFORMATION; STORMS;

CYCLONIC CIRCULATION; DOWNSTREAM REGION; EXTRATROPICAL TRANSITION; FILAMENTATION; PIECE-WISE; STAGNATION POINTS; TROPICAL-EXTRATROPICAL INTERACTIONS; WAVEBREAKING;

HURRICANES;

AMPLITUDE; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BAROCLINIC MOTION; BIFURCATION; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WAVE FIELD; WAVE PROPAGATION; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 84902283016     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2221     Document Type: Article

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