Evidence of mesoscale lows off the west coast of New Zealand

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 369-383

  Laing, Andrew K ^a   Reid, Steve J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; STORMS; VORTEX FLOW; WATER WAVES; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND;

CYCLONIC VORTICES; HIGH SPATIAL VARIABILITY; MESOSCALE WEATHER SYSTEM;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

COASTAL ZONE; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0032727372     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1999)014<0369:EOMLOT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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