Cyclone Development and Tropopause Map

by Lodovica Illari and Masahiro Sugiyama
For questions, please write to masahiro [at] mit [dot] edu.

Front page (you're here) What's the Tropopause? Tropopause Variations and Cyclogenesis?     Case Study of a Severe Storm? How a Full PV Weather Map is Made?

We'll explain how to read the map below...

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.