2010-2011 GFS Analyses
Dynamic Tropopause / Jet, Thickness, SLP, and Moisture / Divergent Outflow-Jet Interaction / Q Vectors

Southern Hemisphere GFS Analyses
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Dynamic Tropopause Loops
6-hourly 0.5-deg GFS analyses, except 1.0-deg analyses for dynamic tropopause (1.5-PVU surface, DT) potential temperature and wind
DT (1.5-PVU surface) potential temperature (K; shaded) and wind barbs (knots),
925-850-hPa layer averaged cyclonic relative vorticity (black contours every 0.5 x 10^-4 s^-1
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North Pacific

Tropical East Pac

North America

North Atlantic

High-Latitude
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East Asia/West North Pacific

North Pacific

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North America

North Atlantic

High-Latitude
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15 to 31 Jul

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Jet, Thickness, SLP, and Moisture Loops
6-hourly 0.5-deg GFS analyses
250-hPa wind speed (m s^-1, shaded according to color bar), 1000-500 hPa thickness (dashed contours every 6 dam),
SLP (solid contours every 4 hPa), total precipitable water (mm, shaded according to gray scale)


East Asia/West North Pacific

North Pacific

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East Pac

North America

North Atlantic

High-Latitude
North Atlantic

Northern Hemisphere

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North Atlantic

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North Pacific

Tropical East Pac

North America

North Atlantic

High-Latitude
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Northern Hemisphere

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North Pacific

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North America

North Atlantic

High-Latitude
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East Asia/West North Pacific

North Pacific

Tropical East Pac

North America

North Atlantic

High-Latitude
North Atlantic

Northern Hemisphere

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Divergent Outflow-Jet Interaction Loops
6-hourly 0.5-deg GFS analyses, except 1.0-deg analyses for irrotational wind field
250-hPa wind speed (m s^-1, shaded according to color bar), 250-hPa potential vorticity (gray contours every 1 PVU),
250-hPa relative humidity (%, shaded according to gray scale), 600-400 hPa layer averaged omega (red contours every 5 x 10^-3 hPa s^-1, neg. values only),
300-200 hPa layer averaged irrotational wind (vectors starting at 5 m s^-1)


East Asia/West North Pacific

North Pacific

Tropical East Pac

North America

North Atlantic

High-Latitude
North Atlantic

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North Pacific

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North America

North Atlantic

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East Asia/West North Pacific

North Pacific

Tropical East Pac

North America

North Atlantic

High-Latitude
North Atlantic

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East Asia/West North Pacific

North Pacific

Tropical East Pac

North America

North Atlantic

High-Latitude
North Atlantic

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East Asia/West North Pacific

North Pacific

Tropical East Pac

North America

North Atlantic

High-Latitude
North Atlantic

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Q Vector Loops
6-hourly 0.5-deg GFS analyses
700-hPa geo. height (dam; solid blue), temp. (deg C; dashed red),
Q vector (arrows, plotted for values greater than 5 x 10^-7 Pa m^-1 s^-1 only), and
Term A of the Q-vector form of the QG Omega equation (10^-12 Pa m^-2 s^-1, shaded according to the colorbar)


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North America

North Atlantic

High-Latitude
North Atlantic

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North Pacific

North America

North Atlantic

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North Atlantic

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North Atlantic

High-Latitude
North Atlantic

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North America

North Atlantic

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North Atlantic

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North Pacific

North America

North Atlantic

High-Latitude
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