An Integrated View of the 1987 Australian Monsoon and Its Mesoscale Convective Systems. I: Horizontal Structure

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 118, Issue 507, 1992, Pages 927-963

  Mapes, Brian ^a   Houze, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP CONVECTION; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MONSOON;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0027065945     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.49711850706     Document Type: Article

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