Research Article

Improving the Predictability of Severe Convective Weather Processes by Using Wind Vectors and Potential Temperature Changes: A Case Study of a Severe Thunderstorm

Figure 4

Geopotential height and wind field for 500 hPa in East Asia at 20:00 p.m. on July 27, 2007. The hollow red circles show the locations of the YICH and WUHN stations. The data in the figure were derived from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) 1°  × 1° reanalysis data.