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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-37-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-37-2021
Research article
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18 Jan 2021
Research article |  | 18 Jan 2021

Mid-level convection in a warm conveyor belt accelerates the jet stream

Nicolas Blanchard, Florian Pantillon, Jean-Pierre Chaboureau, and Julien Delanoë

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Rare aircraft observations in the warm conveyor belt outflow associated with an extratropical cyclone are complemented with convection-permitting simulations. They reveal a complex tropopause structure with two jet stream cores, from which one is reinforced by bands of negative potential vorticity. They show that negative potential vorticity takes its origin in mid-level convection, which indirectly accelerates the jet stream and, thus, may influence the downstream large-scale circulation.
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