The environments of significant convective events in the western Mediterranean

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 294-306

  Tudurí, Elisa ^a,b   Ramis, Clemente ^b  

^a Ctro Meteorologico de Baleares ^*  (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION METHODS; RADIOSONDES; RAIN;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CONVECTIVE EVENT;

MEDITERRANEAN; SPAIN, MALLORCA;

EID: 0031153943     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1997)012<0294:TEOSCE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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