Weather and Climate Dynamics
Weather and Climate Dynamics
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Articles | Volume 2, issue 2
Articles | Volume 2, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-507-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-507-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 2, issue 2
Research article
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24 Jun 2021
Research article |  | 24 Jun 2021

The three-dimensional life cycles of potential vorticity cutoffs: a global and selected regional climatologies in ERA-Interim (1979–2018)

Raphael Portmann, Michael Sprenger, and Heini Wernli

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We explore the three-dimensional life cycle of cyclonic structures (so-called PV cutoffs) near the tropopause. PV cutoffs are frequent weather systems in the extratropics that lead to high-impact weather. However, many unknowns exist regarding their evolution. We present a new method to track PV cutoffs as 3D objects in reanalysis data by following air parcels along the flow. We study the climatological life cycles of PV cutoffs in detail and propose a classification into three types.
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