Kinematic characteristics of air flowing into and out of precipitating convection over the west Pacific warm pool: An airborne Doppler radar survey

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 125, Issue 556, 1999, Pages 1165-1207

  Kingsmill, David E ^a   Houze Jr , Robert A ^b  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Radar observations; TOGA COARE; Tropical convection

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; KINEMATICS; RADAR IMAGERY; STRATIFORM CLOUD; TOGA-COARE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032782731     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1999.49712555605     Document Type: Article

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