Publication Date:
2022-05-26
Description:
Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2017. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Research Letters 44 (2017): 4351–4358, doi:10.1002/2017GL073662.
Description:
In this article, a simple diagnostic to identify atmospheric fronts objectively from gridded data sets is presented. For this diagnostic, fronts are identified as regions where the normalized product of the isobaric relative vorticity and horizontal temperature gradient exceeds a threshold value. The purpose is to introduce a method that is both robust and particularly straightforward in calculation. A climatology of atmospheric fronts, as well as the identification of an individual frontal system, is computed using this diagnostic. These are subsequently compared to a more traditional frontal detection method and the similarities and differences discussed.
Description:
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC); National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant Numbers: OCE-1419235, AGS-1355339;
NSF Grant Numbers: OCE-1419235, AGS-1355339
Description:
2017-11-14
Keywords:
Atmospheric fronts
;
Objective frontal detection
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Article
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