25 - 28 DECEMBER 1999 STORM CATASTROPHE ATLANTIC AND WESTERN EUROPE

Chapters

• Introduction
• Overview
  • Summary of typical cloud features
  • Lothar and Lothar successor
  • Martin
• Physical Background
  • Baroclinic zone and surface wave
  • Upper level jet streak and left exit region
  • Relation between upper level jet streak and surface wave
  • The role of Potential Vorticity (PV)
• Weather
• Numerical Model forecast problems
• References