Impact of radiosonde observations on forecasting summertime Arctic cyclone formation

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3249-3273

  Yamazaki, Akira ^a   Inoue, Jun ^a,b   Dethloff, Klaus ^c   Maturilli, Marion ^c   König Langlo, Gert ^c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CYCLONE; POLAR MOTION; RADIOSONDE; SUMMER; TROPOPAUSE; VORTEX; WIND DIRECTION;

ARCTIC; EURASIA;

EID: 84929999020     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022925     Document Type: Article

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