Open AccessDiagnosis of a rapidly deepening depression: 16/17 January 1995
Author(s) -
Carroll Edward B
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
meteorological applications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1469-8080
pISSN - 1350-4827
DOI - 10.1002/met.5060020306
Subject(s) - vorticity , water vapor , similarity (geometry) , environmental science , potential vorticity , meteorology , latitude , depression (economics) , climatology , geography , geology , computer science , geodesy , economics , vortex , image (mathematics) , artificial intelligence , macroeconomics
The development of a vigorous mid‐latitude depression as simulated in the UK Met. Office operational limited area model is examined. Water vapour imagery is compared with forecast fields, and it is shown that such imagery can be used to visualise the distribution of absolute vorticity and also to verify the model forecast. It is suggested that the similarity between the water vapour imagery and the absolute vorticity fields is greater than that previously noted between the water vapour imagery and the potential vorticity fields.