High-resolution analysis of frontal fracture

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1212-1230

  Browning, K A ^a   Ballard, S P ^a,b   Davitt, C S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

DROPWINDSONDES; FRONTAL FRACTURE;

STORMS;

EID: 0031168611     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1997)125<1212:HRAOFF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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