Cyclone Development and Tropopause Map

by Lodovica Illari and Masahiro Sugiyama
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References and further readings
  • Hoskins, B. J, M. E. McIntyre, and A. W. Robertson, 1985: On the use and significance of isentropic potential vorticity maps. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 111, 877-946.
  • Davis, C. A., and K. A. Emanuel, 1991: Potential vorticity diagnostics of cyclogenesis. Monthly Weather Review, 119, 1929-1953.
  • Holton, J., 2004: An introduction to dynamic meteorology, 4th ed. Academic Press, 535pp.