Cold pools in shear

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 122, Issue 535, 1996, Pages 1655-1674

  Parker, Douglas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Convective storms; Gravity currents; Vertical wind shear; Vorticity

Indexed keywords

SHEARED FLOW; SIMULATION-NUMERICAL; WIND;

COLD AIR; COLD POOL; CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE STORM; GRAVITY CURRENT; VORTICITY; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 0030395406     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.53508     Document Type: Article

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