Downstream amplification: A possible precursor to major freeze events over southeastern Brazil

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 242-270

  Krishnamurti, T N ^a   Tewari, Mukul ^a   Chakraborty, D R ^a   Marengo, Jose ^d   Silva Dias, Pedro L ^b   Satyamurty, P ^c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^d 430 Love Building ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COLD WEATHER PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WATER WAVES; WAVE TRANSMISSION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DOWNSTREAM AMPLIFICATION; FREEZE EVENTS; RIDGES; TROUGH;

CLIMATOLOGY;

FROST; PREDICTION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

(SOUTHEAST); BRAZIL;

EID: 0033117938     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1999)014<0242:DAAPPT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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