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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-507-2021
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
The three-dimensional life cycles of potential vorticity cutoffs: a global and selected regional climatologies in ERA-Interim (1979–2018)
Raphael Portmann
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
ETH Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland
Michael Sprenger
ETH Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland
Heini Wernli
ETH Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland
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Short summary
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.
We explore the three-dimensional life cycle of cyclonic structures
(so-called PV cutoffs) near...