The oceanic mesoscale convective system observed with airborne Doppler radars on 9 February 1993 during TOGA-COARE: Structure, evolution and budgets

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 124, Issue 546, 1998, Pages 585-614

  Roux, Frank ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D AÉROLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

Convective momentum fluxes; Mesoscale convective complexes; Tropical convection

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE MOMENTUM; DOPPLER RADAR; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; OCEAN; RADAR; TOGA-COARE;

EID: 0031779873     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.49712454610     Document Type: Article

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