Cyclogenesis over the Aegean Sea: Identification and synoptic categories

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-61

  Flocas, Helena A ^a   Karacostas, Theodore S ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEGEAN SEA; ANALYTICAL FORMS; CLOSED SYSTEMS; CYCLOGENESIS; GEO-POTENTIAL HEIGHTS; GRID POINT VALUES; LONG WAVES;

CYCLOGENESIS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LEE CYCLOGENESIS; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS; WESTERLY;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0002645161     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.5060030106     Document Type: Article

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