| Overview: Vortex at its weakest and strongest amplitudes |
Model vs. actual skewt plots |
| Tropopause pressure and winds |
| Actual soundings |
| Model soundings |
Covariance plots |
| Select sensitivities |
Cross sections |
| EnKF ensemble mean cross section plots through core |
| Cross section sensitivities for state and metric on 11/19/2004 at 6 UTC |
| Tropopause theta from location of maximum "genesis" (200 cases) |
| Tropopause theta analyses: EnKF mean |
| Tropopause pressure and wind analyses: EnKF mean |
| Variance of 500 hPa heights |
| Tropopause theta analysis innovations |
| 500 hPa heights and SLP |