Heavy precipitation associated with elevated thunderstorms formed in a convectively unstable layer aloft

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 373-384

  Moore, James T ^a   Czarnetzki, Alan C ^b   Market, Patrick S ^a  

^a Saint Louis University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STABILITY;

AIR PARCELS; AVAILABLE ENERGY; BAROCLINIC ZONES; CASE-STUDIES; CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES; FRONTAL ZONES; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE;

THUNDERSTORMS;

BAROCLINIC MODE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; THUNDERSTORM; TROPOSPHERE;

IOWA; KANSAS; MISSOURI; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0000598143     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482798000863     Document Type: Article

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