Observations of low-level baroclinity generated by anvil shadows

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2942-2958

  Markowski, Paul M ^a   Rasmussen, Erik N ^b   Straka, Jerry M ^a   Dowell, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC MOTION; COOLING; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 0033002522     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<2942:OOLLBG>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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