MIDLATITUDE WEATHER SYSTEMS
PART IV: THE SURFACE-UPPER AIR LINKAGE

Summer 2000

To compare and relate the upper-air pattern with surface weather features.
To contrast weather patterns associated with zonal flow aloft and those associated with meridional flow.
To explain how a blocking pattern aloft can lead to weather extremes.

Series continues from Midlatitude Weather Systems: Anticyclones

Last revision 6 June 2000

Produced by Edward J. Hopkins, Ph.D.

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706

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