Sentences with phrase «maximum jet stream wind»

Synoptic scale weather disturbances tend to form in the regions of maximum jet stream wind speed and propagate downstream.

Not exact matches

Stronger mid-latitude westerly wind maxima have occurred in both hemispheres in most seasons from at least 1979 to the late 1990s, and poleward displacements of corresponding Atlantic and southern polar front jet streams have been documented.

This behavior is expected if there is a baroclinic feedback that encourages the maximum baroclinic instability to be coincident with the maximum zonal wind - speed, and discourages the meridional vacillation of the eddy - driven jet stream.