Diagnostic tools using a mesoscale NWP model for the early warning of convection

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 329-349

  Ducrocq, Véronique ^a   Tzanos, Diane ^a   Sénési, Stéphane ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BULK RICHARDSON NUMBER; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSTIC INDICES; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES;

STABILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL ENERGY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; RICHARDSON NUMBER;

EID: 0001071075     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482798000917     Document Type: Article

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