A dual-Doppler radar study of longitudinal-mode snowbands. Part I: A three-dimensional kinematic structure of meso-γ-scale convective cloud systems within a longitudinal-mode snowband

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 72-91

  Fujiyoshi, Yasushi ^a,b   Yoshimoto, Naohiro ^a,c   Takeda, Takao ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA KYOIKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DOPPLER RADAR; EVAPORATION; KINEMATICS; SNOW; STORMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BAND PARALLEL MOMENTUM; CONVECTIVE CLOUD SYSTEMS; EVAPORATIVE COOLING; SNOWBANDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL KINEMATIC STRUCTURE;

CLOUDS;

EID: 0031646398     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<0072:ADDRSO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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