Low-level jet development during a numerically simulated return flow event

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2972-2990

  Igau, Richard C ^a   Nielsen Gammon, John W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JET FLOW; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0032998337     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<2972:LLJDDA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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