These maps display the potential temperature on the dynamical tropopause (color contours), which is defined as the surface having potential vorticity q of 2.0 PVU (1 PVU = 106 m2 K kg-1 s-1). The contour interval of potential temperature is 5 K, with the most extreme purple being 280 K and the most extreme red 375 K. Also shown are the 850 mb saturation equivalent potential temperature (dashed black contours, with contour interval of 5 K) and the surface pressure (solid black contours, labelled in hPa).
Construction and interpretation of the maps
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