The effect of large-scale flow on low-level frontal structure and evolution in midlatitude cyclones

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1767-1791

  Schultz, David M ^a,b   Keyser, Daniel ^a   Bosart, Lance F ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY;

LARGE SCALE FLOW; LOW LEVEL FRONTAL STRUCTURE; SHAPIRO-KEYSER CYCLONE MODEL;

STORMS;

CYCLOGENESIS; FLOW MODELING; FRONTOGENESIS;

EID: 0032128688     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<1767:TEOLSF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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