A Study of East-Coast Cyclogenesis Employing Quasi-Lagrangian Diagnostics

• Main Author: Conant, Peter R
• Other Authors: NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1982
• Subjects: Meteorology; *CYCLONES; ADVECTION; ANGULAR MOMENTUM; COASTAL REGIONS; EAST(DIRECTION); HORIZONTAL ORIENTATION; MATHEMATICAL PREDICTION; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; THESES; TRANSPORT; UNITED STATES; VERTICAL ORIENTATION; VORTICES; WEST(DIRECTION); *Cyclogenesis; Quasi-Lagrangian diagnostics; Tilting; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA119319; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA119319

The absolute vorticity and angular momentum budgets for the President's Day Cyclone, 18-19 February 1979, are evaluated employing the quasi- Lagrangian diagnostic technique in pressure coordinates. The First GARP Global Experiment (FGGE) Level III-b data set prepared by the European Center for...