The instability of upper tropospheric shear lines

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 32, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 3113-3121

  Bayramli, Alparslan ^a   Juckes, Martin ^a  

^a Meteorologisches Institut   (Germany)

Author keywords

Instability; Primitive equation; Shew line

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ROSSBY NUMBERS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

MIXING; SHEAR; TROPOSPHERE;

AIR MONITORING; AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; VELOCITY; WIND;

EID: 0032169466     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(98)00103-4     Document Type: Article

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