Verification of North Atlantic warm conveyor belt outflowsin ECMWF forecasts

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 141, Issue 689, 2015, Pages 1333-1344

  Madonna, Erica ^a   Boettcher, Maxi ^a   Grams, Christian M ^a   Joos, Hanna ^a   Martius, Olivia ^b   Wernli, Heini ^a  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diabatic processes; Forecast verification; Potential vorticity; Warm conveyor belts

Indexed keywords

BELT CONVEYORS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; MECHANICAL WAVES; STORMS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; VORTICITY;

DIABATIC PROCESS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; FEATURE BASED APPROACHES; FORECAST VERIFICATIONS; MEDIUM RANGE FORECAST; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; WARM CONVEYOR BELTS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CYCLONE; DIABATIC PROCESS; JET STREAM; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84932142258     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2442     Document Type: Article

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