Heavy Rain in the Middle East Related to Unusual Jet Stream Properties
- 1 October 1983
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
- Vol. 64 (10) , 1138-1140
- https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477(1983)064<1138:hritme>2.0.co;2
Abstract
A major and fatal flooding event illustrative of rare similar cases in the Middle East was related to unusual characteristics of the jet stream. Contrary to the usual conditions, the jet stream had anticyclonic curvature and sloped northward with increasing altitude.Keywords
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