Midtropospheric anticyclonic vortex street associated with a cloud band near a cold front

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 2637-2656

  Toyoda, Eizi ^a,c   Niino, Hiroshi ^a   Tsuboki, Kazuhisa ^a,d   Kimura, Ryuji ^a   Yoshizaki, Masanori ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COLD EFFECTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; KINETIC ENERGY; VELOCITY; WIND;

CLOUD BAND; COLD FRONT; LINEAR STABILITY THEORY; MIDTROPOSPHERIC ANTICYCLONIC VORTEX STREET;

TROPOSPHERE;

ANTICYCLONE; CONVECTION; VORTEX;

ANTICYCLONE; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; VORTEX;

JAPAN; RYUKYU ISLANDS;

EID: 0032762658     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<2637:MAVSAW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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