An algorithm for identifying the initiation of synoptic-scale Rossby waves on potential vorticity waveguides

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 142, Issue 695, 2016, Pages 889-900

  Röthlisberger, Matthias ^a   Martius, Olivia ^a   Wernli, Heini ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climatology; Feature based; Identification algorithm; Potential vorticity; Rossby waves; Rossby wave initiation; Waveguide dynamics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY; VORTICITY; WAVEGUIDES;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; FEATURE-BASED; IDENTIFICATION ALGORITHMS; INITIATION MECHANISM; ISENTROPIC LEVELS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVE;

MECHANICAL WAVES;

ALGORITHM; BREAKING WAVE; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; ZONAL FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 84952685133     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2690     Document Type: Article

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