A mesoscale vortex diagnosed from combined satellite and model data

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-4

  Browning, K A ^a   Roberts, N M ^a   Sim, C S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER VAPOR;

CLOUD FORMATION; CYCLOGENESIS; FORECAST MODEL; MESOSCALE VORTICES; METEOSAT; MODEL DATA; POTENTIAL INSTABILITY; WATER VAPOUR;

VORTEX FLOW;

CYCLOGENESIS; DETECTION METHOD; MESOSCALE EDDY; METEOSAT; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 0004717340     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.5060030101     Document Type: Article

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