Questions tagged [synoptic]
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How do tropopause folds form and do they have any impact on synoptic scale weather?
What is the process that creates a tropopause fold? Do these features have any significant impact(s) on weather patterns or the atmosphere?
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How is the Rossby Radius used to determine that synoptic weather systems are 1000-2000km across?
In one of his presentations, Sandy MacDonald (of NOAA and ESRL) talks about the Rossby Radius of Deformation in connection with the size of synoptic weather systems: he describes how it sets the ...
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