European high-impact weather caused by the downstream response to the extratropical transition of North Atlantic Hurricane Katia (2011)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 8738-8748

  Grams, Christian M ^a   Blumer, Sandro R ^a,b  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

convection; extratropical transition; numerical weather prediction; potential vorticity; Rossby wave; tropical cyclone

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONVECTION; MECHANICAL WAVES; NATURAL CONVECTION; STORMS; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EXTRATROPICAL TRANSITION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

HURRICANES;

CONVECTION; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; HURRICANE EVENT; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THUNDERSTORM; TRANSITION ZONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CENTRAL EUROPE;

EID: 84946615771     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL066253     Document Type: Article

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