Comparing satellite and surface observations of cloud patterns in synoptic-scale circulation systems

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 125, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 3172-3189

  Lau, Ngar Cheung ^a   Crane, Mark W ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DATA PROCESSING; DATA STRUCTURES; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SPEED; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND EFFECTS;

CLOUD PATTERNS; CUMULUS CLOUDS; ISOBARIC CONDITION; SYNOPTIC SCALE CIRCULATION SYSTEMS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 0031337815     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1997)125<3172:CSASOO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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