Tropical Waves (Conceptual Model)Plan View

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This is Riehl’s conceptual model and the plan/horizontal view of a tropical wave. Note the inverted “V” shape of the trough, with axis extending from south-to-north and propagating west on the low level easterlies.

Copied from: USAFETAC/TN-89/003, The Caribbean Basin, A Climatological Study, December 1989