- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The midlatitude Rossby waveguide
- 3. Diagnostic frameworks
- 4. The dynamics of RWPs and their life cycle
- 5. Climatological properties of RWPs
- 6. RWPs and weather forecasting
- 7. RWPs as precursors to extreme weather
- 8. Summary, caveats, and future directions
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