The key role of diabatic outflow in amplifying the midlatitude flow: A representative case study of weather systems surrounding western North Pacific extratropical transition

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 144, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 3847-3869

  Grams, Christian M ^a   Archambault, Heather M ^b,c  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atm ocean structure phenomena; Circulation dynamics; Diabatic heating; Extratropical cyclones; Potential vorticity; Rossby waves; Tropical cyclones; Upper troposphere

Indexed keywords

BELT CONVEYORS; FLOW PATTERNS; HURRICANES; MECHANICAL WAVES; STORMS; TROPOSPHERE;

DIABATIC HEATING; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

DIABATIC PROCESS; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONE; FLOW PATTERN; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OUTFLOW; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84994181551     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-15-0419.1     Document Type: Article

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