Prediction of near-surface gusts generated by deep convection

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 157-167

  Nakamura, K ^a   Kershaw, R ^b   Gait, N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c Southampton Weather Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL CONVECTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DEEP CONVECTION; GEOSTROPHIC WINDS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PREDICTION EQUATIONS; PRESSURE GRADIENT FORCE; SEVERE WEATHER; VERTICAL SHEAR;

PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; GUST; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0000447334     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.5060030206     Document Type: Article

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