A diagnostic case study of a winter low-level front over southern China

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 6 I, 1999, Pages 1096-1107

  Chen, George Tai Jen ^a   Lin, Kuo Chin ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAU   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC ATMOSPHERE; FRONTAL FEATURE; FRONTOGENESIS; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

CHINA;

EID: 0032738455     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<1096:ADCSOA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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